The bottles of holy water were absolutely teeming with the bacteria Vibrio cholerae, per the report, with an estimated 100,000 to 100 million “colony forming units,” which allowed the bacteria to ...

Consumption of holy water from Ethiopia has recently led to several cases of cholera in Germany and the United Kingdom (UK) with a multidrug-resistant Vibrio cholerae strain, according to a study ...

Multiple British nationals fell ill with a drug-resistant strain of cholera after drinking holy water abroad. In Ethiopia, almost half of the country’s population – nearly 60,000,000 – don’t have ...

Amid an outbreak of cholera in the region, children rinse their hands at a camp for Syrian refugees in Talhayat, Lebanon — Ibrahim Chalhoub Marwa Khaled's teenage son was hospitalised with cholera ...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) has expressed concern over the growing threat to water safety, which triggers outbreak of water-borne diseases, including cholera. Its ...

I'm not a Christian, but know of many Christians who are devoted to promoting economic, environmental, and social justice. I have protested with them many times. Corrupt church leaders have sucked up ...

Clean drinking water is one of the most urgent needs in developing countries and disaster-stricken areas, but safety tests can take days — during which tainted water can infect thousands. OmniVis aims ...

You may be forgiven to think that cholera no longer exists. In my teen years, cholera was a scourge in Nigeria so much that a very popular Juju musician ensured as part of his campaign to prevent the ...

Cholera is a deadly diarrhoeal disease spread through ingesting contaminated food and water. Entirely preventable, it can kill within hours if a severe case is left untreated. The World Health ...

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Cholera remains one of the most dangerous waterborne diseases in the world. It spreads quickly, causes severe dehydration, and can become fatal in just a few hours if left untreated. With recent ...