The Bihar Health Department has issued the notification of Bihar Epidemic Diseases Covid-19 Rules 2023 regarding effective control over Bihar Epidemic Covid-19. In the new rules, the responsibility of all the hospitals from the state level to the district level has been fixed for its control. In the manual prepared …
GENEVA/WASHINGTON – The World Health Organization on Tuesday toughened its advice on preventing the spread of Zika, saying anyone returning from areas hit by the virus should practice safe sex for six months afterward. The updated guidelines mean the U.N. health body’s recommendations regarding sexual transmission are now the same …
Singapore authorities on Sunday confirmed 27 more cases of locally transmitted Zika virus infection, bringing the total to 242. Twenty-five new cases were linked to the initial outbreak area, one was linked to a potential new cluster and the remaining new case had no known links to any existing cluster, …
SINGAPORE - Singapore confirmed 27 new cases of locally transmitted Zika virus infection on Sunday, the Ministry of Health (MOH) and National Environment Agency (NEA) said in a statement. Sunday's update brings the total number of Zika infections in Singapore to 242. The MOH said among these newly reported cases, …
PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia - Malaysia on Thursday confirmed its first case of Zika infection, as a 58-year-old woman who recently traveled to Singapore tested positive for the mosquito-borne virus. Health Minister Dr. Subramaniam Sathasivam delivered the news at a press conference in the city of Putrajaya, south of Kuala Lumpur, an …
Singapore has confirmed 41 cases of the Zika virus which were locally transmitted. Most of those infected were foreign construction workers, and all lived or worked within the same region of the country, said the health ministry. None were known to have travelled to Zika-affected areas recently. Thirty-four people have …
HONG Kong authorities reported the city’s first Zika virus infection yesterday, which they described as an imported case of the disease blamed for birth defects. The patient was said to be a 38-year-old female who had travelled to a Caribbean island, before complaining of pain in the joints and red …
PUNE: Epidemic louse-borne typhus is suspected to be the cause of the fever outbreak in Shindewadi village in Pune district that killed two children and affected 90 others this month. Since the confirmatory test kit is not available in India, microbiologists from state-run B J Medical College attached Sassoon General …
A shortage of HIV testing could undermine global efforts to diagnose and treat people with the infection, warn experts from the World Health Organization. They looked at responses to annual surveys that the WHO had sent to 127 countries between 2012 and 2014 asking about capacity and usage of blood …
In developing nations, the current test to diagnose tuberculosis (TB) is error-prone, complicated and time-consuming. Furthermore, patients in these resource-limited areas can't easily travel back to a clinic at a later date to get their results. To make diagnoses simpler, faster and more accurate, chemists have developed a quick and …
Researchers at The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, in collaboration with Arbutus Biopharma Corporation, have protected nonhuman primates against Ebola Sudan four days following exposure to the virus. The study results, which were recently published in Nature Microbiology, demonstrated that the treatment was effective at a point when …
All 47 African member states of the World Health Organization (WHO) adopted a new framework on how to deal with malaria on the continent, which still accounts for more than 90 percent of global malaria deaths in 2015, a UN spokesman told reporters here Monday. "They agreed on specific interventions …
ASUNCION – The government of Paraguay said on Wednesday that health officials have registered the country’s first two instances of Zika-infected mothers’ giving birth to babies with abnormally small skulls, a condition known as microcephaly. The cases involve a boy in the eastern province of Alto Parana and a girl …
Health officials in Florida are investigating four cases of Zika that do not appear to be related to travel. So far cases outside of Latin America and the Caribbean, where the virus is prevalent, have been spread by travel to that region or sexual transmission. The four Florida cases have …
The Zika virus poses a negligible health threat to the international community during the summer Olympic Games that begin next month in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, according to researchers at Yale School of Public Health (YSPH). In a worst-case scenario, an estimated 3 to 37 of the thousands of athletes, …
A woman in Spain infected with the Zika virus has given birth to a baby with the brain disease microcephaly, thought to be the first such birth in Europe. Authorities revealed in May they had detected microcephaly in the foetus but the couple decided to keep the baby. Felix Castillo, …
BOGOTÁ, Colombia — Health officials here on Monday declared an end to the Zika epidemic in Colombia, the first time a South American country had turned the tide on the disease, they said. The Zika virus, which causes an illness related to dengue and is spread by mosquitoes, has infected …
FLORIDA health officials have trapped mosquitoes in an area of Miami-Dade County and are testing them for Zika to confirm whether a woman with the virus could be the first person infected directly by a mosquito bite in continental United States. Florida’s Department of Health and the US Centers for …
Researchers have now directly connected the Aedes aegypti mosquito with Zika transmission in the Americas, during an outbreak in southern Mexico. The findings will help scientists to better target efforts for controlling the population of mosquitoes carrying the Zika virus. In collaboration with colleagues from Mexico, University of Texas Medical …
Experts are trying to work out exactly how a US carer has caught Zika after tending to a dying elderly man with the virus. Until now it was thought that only mosquitoes and sex spread Zika, as well as the risk of mother-to-child transmission in the womb. The carer, from …
SOME 2.5 million people are still becoming infected with HIV every year even as drugs have slashed the death rate and patients live longer than ever, a global AIDS study said yesterday. New infections have plateaued after a steep dip from the peak rate of 3.3 million in 1997, said …
