For 14 weeks in the late summer of 1853, London suffered one of its worst cholera outbreaks. The leading voices in medicine believed the disease emanated from the foul gasses of London’s polluted ...

In 1848, there was a second outbreak of cholera in London. Dr John Snow, a physician and specialist in medical hygiene, doubted that bad air caused the disease. Dr Snow carried out his own ...

John Snow is often called the founder of epidemiology, the study of health in populations. He is best known for his work on tracking the spread of cholera during an epidemic in London in 1854.

First, physician John Snow traced a deadly cholera outbreak to contaminated water from London's Broad Street pump. Second, Louis Pasteur advanced the germ theory of disease, which postulated that ...

Health officials in Europe have reported an outbreak of superbug cholera traced back to tainted holy water sourced from Ethiopia. Health officials in Germany and the UK detailed the strange ...

It was made in 1854 by a London physician named John Snow. He suspected that the cholera outbreak in London’s Soho neighborhood, which killed 616 people, was spread through water, not air. At that ...

Nairobi: Kenya's government urged vigilance on Wednesday as it tackles a cholera outbreak that has killed at least five people, a health ministry official said. Cholera is an acute intestinal ...