WHO published its World health statistics report 2025, revealing the deeper health impacts caused by the COVID-19 pandemic on loss of lives, longevity and overall health and well-being. In just two years, between 2019 and 2021, global life expectancy fell by 1.8 years—the largest drop in recent history— reversing a …
Speakers at a roundtable on Tuesday underscored the need for formulation of a policy with provisions to cut emissions from vehicles and brick fields in Dhaka city to ensure pollution-free air for the citizens. They said air pollution in the city was the major reason for mortality and diseases as …
Afghanistan's only known pig has been locked in a room, away from visitors to Kabul zoo where it normally grazes beside deer and goats, because people are worried it could infect them with the virus popularly known as swine flu. The pig is a curiosity in Muslim Afghanistan, where pork …
The World Health Organisation has raised its tally of confirmed human cases of swine flu to 1,124 from 1,025. There have been 26 confirmed deaths. The global body says 21 countries have now reported laboratory-confirmed cases. The US has 286 cases and one death. ? U.S. REPORTS 286 CONFIRMED CASES, …
While some local authourities said yesterday they were on alert to prevent the fast-spreading Swine Flu reaching Sri Lanka, some others stressed the need to fight diseases such as dengue which has already affected the Hambantota and Galle districts. Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) authourities said they were carrying out tests …
Social groups voiced their concern over the delay in pictorial representation of health warnings on all tobacco products. Many of them had claimed that the absence of any Union Health Minister had led to a crisis as the Cabinet had buckled under the pressure of tobacco manufacturers. The Advocacy Forum …
Globally a third of total HIV positive people are affected by tuberculosis, a bacteria-borne disease that affects nearly 300,000 people and kills 70,000 annually in Bangladesh. "Bangladesh ranks five among the 22 high burden TB countries in the world," Professor Dr Pravat Chandra Barua, Line-Director of National TB and Leprosy …
Closing schools once a student falls ill with swine flu may no longer be worth the toll on students and families, because the illness will soon be present almost everywhere in the country and few cases have been severe, federal health authorities said Monday.
ALISTAIR BELL MEXICO CITY May 4 Mexico said it was winning the battle against a deadly new strain of flu as it stayed largely shut for business and cases dropped, but global health officials hinted a pandemic was still likely. World Health Organisation (WHO) chief Margaret Chan, paving the way …
With swine flu now widespread in the United States, the World Health Organization reported Monday that the disease had widened globally, too, with 20 countries reporting 985 laboratory confirmed cases, compared with 18 countries reporting 898 confirmed cases on Sunday. Colombia and El Salvador were the latest countries to join …
Swine flu has become widespread in the United States, with 226 cases in 30 states and more expected to turn up in additional states in the next few days, federal health officials said Sunday.
Humans have it. Pigs don't. At least not yet, and U.S. pork producers are doing everything they can to make sure that the new H1N1 virus, known around the world as the "swine flu," stays out of their herds. "That is the biggest concern, that your herd could somehow contract …
New Delhi: Not only cooked pork but even processed pork products like ham, sausage, bacon and salami are safe to eat. So, feel free to gorge on your ham and salami club sandwich or a spicy pork vindaloo. With pork dishes fading away from restaurant menus worldwide, the World Health …
Canada Reports First Reverse Transmission; India Not Worried New Delhi: Ironically, a virus believed to have originated from pigs is now being found to be jumping from humans to swines. On a day when the World Health Organisation announced a surge of confirmed H1N1 flu cases among humans
In view of the threat of outbreak of swine influenza/flu in Uttar Pradesh, the health officials are keeing high vigil across the state. Experts are of the view that some preventive steps can reduce the chances of swine flu infections spreading to human beings. UP Council of Agriculture Research's scientific …
