The southern African nation of Malawi has started a cholera vaccination rollout this week in a bid to stem the threat of a disease that kills tens of thousands of people globally each year.

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Record rainfall doused Southern California on Christmas Eve, forcing evacuations and leaving some residents in need of rescue amid rising waters. “At least dozens” of people were rescued overnight ...

A second levee failed just outside of Seattle as rivers once again surge from more atmospheric river-fueled rain, setting off deadly flooding in parts of western Washington. Precautionary evacuations ...

ACEH TAMIANG, Indonesia, Dec 7 (Reuters) - Hit by deadly floods, Indonesians in the region around Aceh Tamiang are grappling with worsening diseases and a lack of medical care as workers struggled to ...

Samadhee Kaluarachchi receives funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, the Faculty of Forestry at the University of British Columbia, the Gordon and Nora Bailey ...