While cholera may have been killing people as far back as 400 B.C., it didn't start affecting the Americas until the second cholera pandemic began in 1829. Numerous other cholera pandemics ...

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 ...

Harsh quarantine measures that were imposed to control a cholera outbreak in the wake of World War Two are now being described as cruel and unnecessary by people who were directly affected.