New insight into predicting cholera epidemics in the Bengal Delta
Thursday, November 5, 2009 - 07:56
in Biology & Nature
Cholera, an acute diarrhoeal disease caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae, has reemerged as a global killer. Outbreaks typically occur once a year in Africa and Latin America. But in Bangladesh the epidemics occur twice a year - in the spring and again in the fall...