Health providers and aid groups have mobilized to combat outbreaks of cholera in Haiti and Nigeria. Peter Hotez, M.D., Ph.D., Distinguished Research Professor and chair of the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine in the School of Medicine and Health Sciences says cholera often emerges in underdeveloped regions struck by disaster.
Haiti, Nigeria Battle Cholera
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