Cholera

  • Haiti Cholera Epidemic Could Have Been Blunted with Use of Mobile Stockpile of Oral Vaccine
    Had a large stockpile of oral cholera vaccine been available and deployed to inoculate the majority of Haitians most at risk after the outbreak following last year’s earthquake, the illness and death from the cholera epidemic could have been reduced by about half, according ...More
    April 11, 2011
    Posted in News
  • Experts Develop Tool to Predict Course of Haiti's Cholera Outbreak
    A new study published online in Annals of Internal Medicine outlines the path of the cholera outbreak in Haiti and identifies immediate strategies for controlling the epidemic. Control strategies are needed, as Haiti is in the midst of a cholera epidemic that has killed ...More
    March 17, 2011
    Posted in News
  • Oral Vaccine Could Prevent Half of Cholera Cases, But Less Effective in Kids
    Oral vaccines could prevent up to 60 percent of cholera cases in the first two years after vaccination, according to a new review of vaccine studies. The vaccines have been shown to provide protection within one month of vaccination, but data from studies of older versions ...More
    March 16, 2011
    Posted in News
  • Scientists Working Toward Fast, Simple Test for Detecting Cholera
    With cholera on the rampage in Haiti and almost 40 other countries, scientists are reporting the development of a key advance that could provide a fast, simple test to detect the toxin that causes the disease. The report appears in American Chemical Society's journal, ...More
    February 9, 2011
    Posted in News
  • Special Sugar, Nanoparticles Combine to Detect Cholera Toxin
    A complex sugar may someday become one of the most effective weapons to stop the spread of cholera, a disease that has claimed thousands of lives in Haiti since the devastating earthquake last year. A technique developed by University of Central Florida scientists would ...More
    January 19, 2011
    Posted in News
  • Organization Intensifies Awareness Efforts in Haiti to Dispel Myths, Fears About Cholera
    A lack of accurate public information about cholera is further complicating efforts to combat the epidemic in Haiti, where the disease has already claimed more than 2,500 lives, according to Save the Children. In response, the humanitarian organization has launched a ...More
    January 3, 2011
    Posted in News
  • CDC Recommends Precautions During Holiday Travel to Haiti
    If you plan to travel to Haiti or the Dominican Republic for the holidays, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) urges you to protect yourself from cholera. Cholera has been spreading in Haiti and, to a limited degree, the Dominican Republic since October and ...More
    December 20, 2010
    Posted in News
  • AmeriCares, Baxter Work Together to Help Stem Cholera Outbreak
    AmeriCares and Baxter International Inc. have teamed to deliver additional lifesaving intravenous (IV) solutions to Haiti as part of their ongoing effort to stem the cholera outbreak. AmeriCares has been working around the clock to distribute IV solutions, oral rehydration ...More
    December 20, 2010
    Posted in News
  • Cholera Strain in Haiti Matches Bacteria from South Asia
    A team of researchers from Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Massachusetts General Hospital, with others from the United States and Haiti, has determined that the strain of cholera erupting in Haiti matches bacterial samples from South Asia and not ...More
    December 10, 2010
    Posted in News
  • Cholera Strain Evolves New Mechanism for Causing Disease
    New clinical strains of cholera appear to have evolved a distinctly different mechanism to cause the same disease according to research published in the current issue of the online journal mBio®. Vibrio cholerae is the causative agent for the diarrheal disease cholera. ...More
    December 9, 2010
    Posted in News
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