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 …
An outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) has jolted West Africa, claiming more than 1000 lives since the virus emerged in Guinea in early 2014. The rapidly increasing numbers of cases in the African countries of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone have had public health authorities on high alert throughout …
Spanish priest becomes 1st European to succumb to latest Ebola outbreak The World Health Organisation authorised on Tuesday the use of experimental drugs to fight Ebola as the death toll topped 1,000 and a Spanish priest became the first European to succumb to the latest outbreak. Japan aid agency pulls …
Liberia says it plans to treat two infected doctors with an unproven Ebola medicine called ZMapp People infected in the West Africa Ebola outbreak can be offered untested drugs, the World Health Organisation said on Tuesday, but scarce supplies raise questions about who gets priority in the epidemic of the …
(Reuters) - The death toll from the worst ever outbreak of Ebola has reached 1,013 after another 52 people died in the three days to Aug. 9 in three West African countries, the World Health Organization said on Monday. The largest number of reported new deaths were in Liberia, where …
As the death toll rises in West Africa amid the worst Ebola outbreak on record, a separate threat is compounding the problem: the rainy season and the malaria that comes with it. In Sierra Leone, with the most Ebola cases in the epidemic, a fearful population is failing to seek …
The Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) says the number of new cases of the Chikungunya in the Caribbean has increased, with the Dominican Republic having the most cases. PAHO said that the total figure for the mosquito-borne disease had reached 513,393 cases, compared with 473,523 cases a week earlier. The …
The number of newly discovered HIV cases in people aged 60 or older increased in Beijing in recent years. Men who have sex with men remain one of the key groups in which the city is intervening to stop the spread of HIV, said an official from the city's Center …
KATHMANDU, July 30: The number of HIV-infected people has touched 22 thousand and 994 in Nepal, the government latest report states. Of the HIV-infected in the country, 14 thousand and 561 are males, 8,407 are females and 26 third genders, according to the latest data provided by the National Centre …
Part of a city in north-west China has been sealed off and dozens of people placed in quarantine after a man died of bubonic plague, state media say. The man died in Yumen city, Gansu province, on 16 July. A total of 151 people have been placed under observation, Xinhua …
Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (HIV/Aids) is claiming more lives in Pakistan than ever, says a first-of-its-kind analysis of trend data from 188 countries released on Monday. There has been an 11 per cent increase in mortality rates from HIV/Aids in Pakistan, according to the study that examines data from …
AIDS researchers seeking to cure HIV with a one-two punch got an early hint the approach may work by successfully using an old cancer drug to kick the virus out of hiding in a pilot study in Denmark. Researchers from Aarhus University gave the medicine romidepsin to six HIV-infected people …
THE Federal Government’s efforts through the National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA) notwithstanding, Nigeria is one of the 15 countries accounting for over 75 per cent of the 2.1 million new Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV) infections that occurred in 2013. According to The Gap Report released yesterday by …
AIDS can be brought under control by 2030, according to a global report issued by the United Nations AIDS agency on Wednesday. The UNAIDS report said new HIV infections and deaths from AIDS were falling, and the number of people infected with HIV was stabilising at around 35 million worldwide. …
There is a chance the Aids epidemic can be brought under control by 2030, according to a report by the United Nations Aids agency. It said the number of new HIV infections and deaths from Aids were both falling. However, it called for far more international effort as the "current …
Two-month long malaria epidemic in Tripura’s rural districts is now under control. However, hundreds of people are still being detected with the disease. The situation which went out of control improved with the help of NGOs and volunteers who worked alongside official teams in affected areas. “It was a fight …
The number of people living with HIV worldwide has remained virtually unchanged in the past two years and AIDS-related deaths are at their lowest since peaking almost a decade ago, according to a report from the United Nations AIDS agency released Wednesday. Officials declared that ending the AIDS epidemic is …
Dominica has recorded an increase in the number of HIV/AIDS cases and health authorities are warning that most of the cases are among the male population. Coordinator of the National Response Programme for HIV/AIDS Julie Frampton said that since the first HIV/AIDS case was reported there in 1987, there were …
West African countries and international health organizations adopted a fresh strategy on Thursday to fight the world's deadliest Ebola epidemic, which has killed hundreds of people in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia. At a two-day meeting in the Ghanaian capital, Accra, officials committed to better surveillance to detect cases of …
Epidemics of diarrhea and cholera that gripped Chandrapur-2, Gaidatar of the district some two months ago is still out of control. Locals are terrorized after the diseases started spreading to three others adjoining villages. People taken ill by the diseases are being treated at the proposed sub health post. Infected …
An epidemic of the deadly Ebola virus in West Africa is now “out of control” with more than 60 outbreak hotspots, the medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said on Monday. “The scale of the current Ebola epidemic is unprecedented in terms of geographical distribution, people infected and deaths,” MSF …
