Strange disease kills 50 people in KogiStrange disease kills 50 people in Kogi NCDC counters Kogi govt, says cause of strange killer disease not yet identifiedNCDC counters Kogi govt, says cause of strange killer disease not yet identified The Kogi State Commissioner for Health, Saka Audu, on Sunday said that …
Strange disease kills 50 people in KogiStrange disease kills 50 people in Kogi NCDC counters Kogi govt, says cause of strange killer disease not yet identifiedNCDC counters Kogi govt, says cause of strange killer disease not yet identified The Kogi State Commissioner for Health, Saka Audu, on Sunday said that …
A virus that caused a spate of vomiting and diarrhea in Asia last winter appears to be spreading globally, threatening larger outbreaks of gastro infections that are a bane of luxury cruises. The new strain of norovirus known as GII.17 that emerged in southern China has the potential to spread …
MUMBAI: Every monsoon, the BMC is deluged with complaints of water contamination. So this year, the civic body has increased the number of sampling points in the city. Around 30 new sampling points would be added, especially in slum areas, where the number of water contamination complaints is higher. Every …
Noroviruses, a group of viruses responsible for over 50 per cent of gastroenteritis or infectious diarrhea cases globally, can spread by air up to several metres from an infected person, a new study has warned. The study by researchers from Universite Laval in Canada suggests that measures applied in hospitals …
PESHAWAR: The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said that gastrointestinal diseases, acute respiratory infection and unexplained fever are on the rise among the internally displaced persons (IDPs) of North Waziristan Agency, living in Bannu district. The world health agency has called for urgent coordinated measures to safeguard more than 992,990 …
Twenty people, most of them children, had died of gastroenteritis and other waterborne diseases at DHQ Hospital in June. An official told Dawn on Thursday that 15 patients died at children’s ward and five at medical ward. Among the victims were Jamila Bibi, Sadia, Jaweria, Eman, Haris, Ehsan, Salman, Misbah, …
Studies on urban metabolism have provided important insights in the material and socio political issues associated with the flow. However, there is dearth of studies that reveal how infrastructure as a hybrid of social and material construct facilitates disease emergence. The paper brings together urban metabolism, political ecology and anthropological …
