Climate anomalies may play a major role in driving cholera pandemics

Climate anomalies may play a major role in driving cholera pandemics

New research suggests that an El Niño event may have aided the establishment and spread of a novel cholera strain during an early 20th-century pandemic, supporting the idea that climate anomalies could create opportunities for the emergence of new cholera strains. Xavier Rodo of Instituto de Salud Global de Barcelona, Spain, and colleagues present these … Read more