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South Africa has experienced outbreaks of cholera since January. The worst was in May in Hammanskraal, north of Pretoria, where nearly 30 people died. Cholera is a bacterial disease which spreads via the faecal-oral route mostly through ingestion of contaminated food and water. It causes severe diarrhoea and dehydration, and…

The disease can cause blood vessels around the heart to expand if not treated in time and could lead to heart complications

Four of the cases were found in Florida, while the fifth was logged in Texas, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Inflammation is the scourge of modern life, judging by all the supplements, workouts and diets that promise to fight it. But what precisely gets inflamed, and why – and is it always a bad thing?

One of the Girls Aloud singer’s dying wishes was to find new ways of spotting the disease early, when it is more treatable

Around 2,300 women aged 39 and under are diagnosed with breast cancer in the UK each year.

Former top public health official, 82, stepped down as director of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases last year

Democratic State Representative Jarvis Johnson called the governor's veto of the Sickle Cell bill "petty, bullshit politics."

The proposed K-CDC is expected to work alongside the Public Health Training Centre of the Health department in the capital