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Key factsCholera is an acute diarrhoeal disease that can kill within hours if left untreated.Cholera is a disease of poverty affecting people with inadequate access to safe water and basic sanitation. Conflict, unplanned urbanization and climate change all increase the risk of cholera. Researchers have estimated that each year there are 1.3 to 4.0 million cases of cholera, and 21 000 to 143 000 deaths worldwide due to cholera (1).Most of those infected have no or mild symptoms and can be successfully treated with oral rehydration solution.Severe cases need rapid treatment with intravenous fluids and antibiotics. Provision of safe water and basic sanitation,…

The identity of a man found frozen to death in a Pennsylvania cave nearly 50 years ago has finally been discovered after police traced long-lost fingerprint evidence, solving a mystery that has long baffled authorities in the Appalachian Mountains.The Berks County, Pennsylvania, coroner’s office on Tuesday identified the man as Nicholas Paul Grubb, 27, of Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, CNN reported.Grubb was known for many years as “Pinnacle Man,” a reference to the peak in the Appalachian Mountains near where hikers found his body in 1977. At the time, authorities found no suspicious signs and classified his death as a suicide…

(SOUNDBITE OF FROGS CROAKING)PATRICK: This is Patrick (ph) in Wilmington, N.C., and I’m on my back porch listening to the chorus of frogs. This podcast was recorded at…SARAH MCCAMMON, HOST: 1:04 p.m. Eastern time on Wednesday, September 4, 2024.PATRICK: Things may have changed by the time you hear this, but I’d be willing to bet we’ll have more tadpoles in our backyard frog pond after all this rain.TAMARA KEITH, BYLINE: Amazing.PATRICK: OK, here’s the show.(SOUNDBITE OF THE BIGTOP ORCHESTRA’S “TEETER BOARD: FOLIES BERGERE (MARCH AND TWO-STEP)”)DANIELLE KURTZLEBEN, BYLINE: I love that deep-throated croak.MCCAMMON: I just want him to send me…

Lipscomb University track and field athlete Lisa Corso won her second Paralympic medal over the weekend, winning bronze in the 1,500-meter T13 race.Corso finished at the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris on Saturday in an astounding time of 4 minutes 23.45 seconds, less than a minute ahead of Ethiopia’s gold medallist Tigistu Mengistu. Corso, a college senior, won a silver medal in the same event at the Tokyo Paralympics in 2020. In both races, Corso was the only American athlete among the competitors. Corso is classified as a T13 athlete, meaning he has a moderate visual impairment. Athletes with visual…

By his own account, Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance’s conversion to Catholicism in 2019 gave him the spiritual fulfillment that his Yale education and career success didn’t. It was also a political shift. WATCH: J.D. Vance’s political views and how they’ve changed in recent years His Catholic teachings gave him a new perspective on addiction, family breakdown and other social pathologies that he described in his best-selling 2016 autobiography, “Hillbilly Elegy.” “I longed for a worldview that understood our bad behavior to be social as well as personal, structural as well as moral, a worldview that recognized that we are products…

Infectious disease experts say many Americans have not taken the recent coronavirus outbreak seriously, are not getting vaccinated or using antiviral drugs when they get sick, even though the summer wave of infections was larger and came earlier than expected.Epidemiologists say symptoms in this outbreak are milder than in previous ones, but the virus remains a threat, especially to older people and those with underlying health conditions.In response, public health officials are urging people to get a booster shot now, but to wait three to four months if they have recently been infected with COVID-19. They also urge people to…

Linda Bordoni (Jakarta) Pope Francis’ dream for a more fraternal world was at the heart of his message to Indonesia and the world on Wednesday, his first day in the country. That was the message he inscribed in an installation made by young people from Jakarta’s Skola Oculentes, a polyhedral sculpture made from a variety of recyclable materials, colors and fabrics. He then listened to some of their stories and told them that it was OK to disagree and argue with their friends, but to never wage war. “War is always losing,” he said, tirelessly repeating his appeal for fraternity…

As former President Donald Trump tries to win over Jewish voters in the 2024 election, he’s made a point of attacking Jewish Democrats — targeting the faith of three of the most prominent Jewish Americans in politics and criticizing any Jew who backs Democrats as “an absolute fool” who needs “their head examined.”Those attacks have increasingly colored the background of a pivotal fight for potential swing voters: Jewish Americans in critical battleground states, a group that has consistently supported Democrats in past elections and, this year, is increasingly concerned about issues including rising antisemitism at home, U.S. support for Israel in…

Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday proposed policies she hopes will spur the creation of small businesses across the U.S., while also breaking with one of President Biden’s policies by announcing that she would keep capital gains tax increases lower than Biden has proposed.First, she wants to expand the small business tax credit tenfold from $5,000 to $50,000 to help startups cover the average $40,000 it takes to launch a business. She also has a goal of accepting 25 million new small business applications during her first term, surpassing the previous record of 19 million applications filed…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hunter Biden’s ongoing legal troubles may no longer be a political concern for the president, but they remain very personal. President Joe Biden’s son has already been convicted of a firearms-related felony and faces possible prison time, and now he faces a second criminal trial for allegedly evading taxes on millions of dollars in income from foreign companies. The trial could put a spotlight on Hunter Biden’s overseas business dealings, which Republicans have scrutinized for years and accused the Democratic president (without evidence) of corruption related to his son’s activities abroad. The potential political impact of the…