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Recent Cholera News

• Special feature of Science journal highlights protein array technologyA special feature in this week's issue of the journal Science highlights protein array technology, touching on research conducted by Joshua LaBaer, director of the Biodesign Institute's Virginia G. Pi...
• Scientists decipher structure of bacterial injection needles at atomic resolutionThe plague, bacterial dysentery, and cholera have one thing in common: These dangerous diseases are caused by bacteria which infect their host using a sophisticated injection apparatus. Through needle...
• icddr,b, AmeriCares launch new cholera-fighting program in the Horn of AfricaAmeriCares and icddr,b have launched a new cholera-fighting program in the Horn of Africa, where recent rains have increased fears of large-scale outbreaks.
• U.N., international community should pledge to improve water, sanitation in Haiti to mitigate cholera epidemic"The cholera epidemic in Haiti, which began in late 2010, is bad and getting worse, for reasons that are well understood and that the aid community has done far too little to resolve," a New York Time...
• Cholera strain in Haiti evolving, CDC reports"The cholera strain in Haiti is evolving, researchers reported Thursday, a sign that it may be taking deeper root in the nation less than two years after it appeared and killed thousands of people," t...