The fact that contaminated water and poor sanitation could help spread diseases like cholera was not understood in the 19th century. Starting in 1819, a series of cholera pandemics spread the ...

Natural disasters can fuel a whole plethora of infectious diseases (Credit: Getty Images) Disease-causing ... that hurricanes have caused spates of cholera across the American coastal south ...

Getty Images Mariupol's water system has been ... infrastructure had set the ground for the spread of water-borne diseases. Cholera can be a very serious illness. In the most severe cases, if ...