Researchers uncover a notorious cholera strain that contains sophisticated immune systems to fend off viruses, which potentially helped it to fuel a devastating epidemic across Latin America. When we ...

The world didn’t only just go through the COVID-19 pandemic, the seventh cholera pandemic is ongoing, and has been for some time. While many cases of cholera do not cause symptoms, it can lead to ...

Scientists from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have uncovered what gives Vibrio cholerae, the bacterium that causes cholera, the ability to colonize the human gut. The researchers found that a ...

Cholera-causing bacteria are locked in an evolutionary arms race with a viral nemesis, according to a new genomic study. Researchers have found that, in the Ganges Delta, cholera bacteria rapidly gain ...

Eighteen-year-old Isabel Garcia from Wilmington, North Carolina, has been awarded a $25,000 Davidson Fellows Scholarship for ...

Cholera-causing bacteria are locked in an evolutionary arms race with a viral nemesis, according to a new genomic study. Experts at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, icddr,b (International Centre for ...

Countries across Africa’s meningitis belt, stretching from Senegal to Ethiopia, continue to face recurring epidemics as ...

The WHO report said the African meningitis belt continues to face a substantial burden, though cases declined 5.9% among ...

In cholera strains with human-associated small RNA variants, biofilm formation was suppressed, enabling the bacteria to avoid critical immune barriers. "Typically, these bacteria get stuck in the ...

When we think of cholera, most of us picture contaminated water and tragic outbreaks in vulnerable regions. But behind the scenes, cholera bacteria are locked in a fierce, microscopic war—one that ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn., May 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Scientists from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have uncovered what gives Vibrio cholerae, the bacterium that causes cholera, the ability to colonize ...