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 …
Ebola remains a mortal danger in west Africa a year after the first cases were confirmed, health leaders have warned, as a fresh infection in Liberia dashed hopes that the country might be close to declaring itself free of the disease. Liberia had not reported a new case for three …
DAKAR, Mar 23 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The slow international response to the West Africa Ebola outbreak created an avoidable tragedy that cost thousands of lives, a leading medical charity said on the one year anniversary of the first confirmed case. The world's worst Ebola epidemic has killed over 10,200 …
The gruesome toll of West Africa’s Ebola outbreak, which has killed more than 4,200 Liberians of the more than 10,000 who have succumbed to the disease, has intensified efforts to find a vaccine for a disease that previously infected relatively few people in remote areas. One year after the World …
A tablet device that can withstand being doused in chlorine has been developed to help medics caring for patients with Ebola. Designed by technology volunteers and Google, it can be used even wearing gloves and in storms and high humidity. Medecins Sans Frontieres put out a call for an Ebola-proof …
Guinea has suffered a setback in its fight against Ebola with a rash of new cases, including three doctors infected by the virus, with officials blaming weak surveillance and a failure to follow safety procedures. The outbreak, which began in eastern Guinea more than a year ago and has killed …
Over a third of hospitals and clinics in developing countries have nowhere for staff or patients to wash with soap, and almost 40 percent have no source of water, according to a WHO-backed international review published on Tuesday. The report, by sanitation charity WaterAid and the World Health Organization (WHO) …
Dakar — West Africa may lose up to $15 billion over the next three years due to the impact of the Ebola outbreak on trade, investment and tourism, according to a report by the United Nations. The world's deadliest Ebola epidemic has killed almost 10,000 people in the three most …
The death toll from West Africa's Ebola outbreak has passed 10,000, according to the latest tally released by the World Health Organization on Thursday. Liberia has recorded the most deaths with 4,162. Sierra Leone is the second worst-hit nation with 3,655, and Guinea has recorded 2,187 dead, according to the …
Khartoum - An agreement on Health Cooperation including all the fields of health work, exchange of information and combating diseases and epidemics was signed between Tanzania and Sudan on Wednesday at the Federal Ministry of Health. The agreement, which was signed the Federal Minister of Health, Bahr Idriss Abu-Garda and …
The 2014-15 H1N1 outbreak in India has reportedly led to 800 fatalities. The reported influenza hemagglutinin sequences from India indicate that these viruses contain amino acid changes linked to enhanced virulence and are potentially antigenically distinct from the current vaccine containing 2009 (Cal0709) H1N1 viral hemagglutinin.
Question raised in Rajya Sabha on epidemic diseases in the country, 10/03/2015. States have reported outbreaks of epidemic prone diseases through the Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme. The outbreaks recorded State-wise/ disease- wise for the year 2014 is placed at this document.
A total of 6,097 Ebola and non-Ebola deaths have been recorded nationwide since the outbreak of the Ebola virus, an official of the Incident Management System (IMS) has disclosed. Dehwehn Yeabah, who heads the dead body management team of the IMS, said the figure also represents confirmed, suspected and probable …
A new United Nations report says investing in disaster resilience is vital for sustainable development in the Caribbean and other places. The 2015 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction said that reducing poverty, improving health and education for all, achieving sustainable and equitable economic growth, and protecting the health …
Washington D. C. — Public health experts can identify nations that are vulnerable to the occurrence and impact of future outbreaks of Ebola or other emergencies by using a screening tool that evaluates a nation's strengths across a wide range of measures such as political strength and health care capabilities, …
Enugu — The federal government said it had set aside N8 billion for funding of HIV/AIDS intervention project, with the aim of taking over owner-ship. Deputy Director, Finance, Natio-nal Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA), Dr. Kenneth Kalu, said this during a stakeholders' meeting in Umuahia, Abia State. The …
London — Almost 30 countries around the world are "highly vulnerable" to an Ebola-style epidemic, with Somalia, Chad, Nigeria, Afghanistan and Haiti most at risk, a major charity said on Tuesday. An increasingly mobile global population makes deadly outbreaks more likely, with the emergence of two new diseases a year …
The money was sent to ActionAid International on behalf of the board of directors, staff and management of ActionAid International The Gambia. The donation, which included personal commitment of board members and staff, is in response to an appeal by the chief executive officer of ActionAid International, Adriano Campolina, to …
Revealing new details about the origins of AIDS, scientists said on Monday half the lineages of the main type of human immunodeficiency virus, HIV-1, originated in gorillas in Cameroon before infecting people, probably via bushmeat hunting. HIV-1, which causes AIDS, is composed of four groups, each coming from a separate …
The Japanese company behind an experimental Ebola treatment says it offers new hope for thousands of people infected with the deadly virus in West Africa, but acknowledged it is “not a miracle drug.” In their first comments to the media since the release of early clinical trials last week, executives …
India bears the largest burden of tuberculosis (TB) in the world. The TB prevention and control landscape in India is fraught with challenges at multiple levels, including low risk perception, lack of awareness, social stigma, an unregulated private sector and lack of treatment adherence. The Revised National TB Control Programme …
