"Action is needed, not tomorrow, but really now," said Yap Boum of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. He's talking about a disease that has been around for centuries — cholera — ...
The bacteria—V cholerae—colonize the small intestine where they secrete a potent enterotoxin. This toxin does not damage the intestinal lining but leads to the overproduction of cyclic AMP, which ...