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 …
Global efforts to control and eliminate malaria have saved an estimated 3.3 million lives since 2000, reducing malaria mortality rates by 45% globally and by 49% in Africa, according to the "World malaria report 2013". The large majority of the lives saved were in the 10 countries with the highest …
That takes the country’s total cases to 346 of which 173 are men and 173 female Health: Unlike the usual trend, four of the 25 new HIV positive cases detected in the last six months in the country are above 50 years. While three of them are men and one …
The report warns of emerging epidemics in some countries A significant progress has been seen in a number of countries in Asia and the Pacific in reducing new HIV infections by over 50 per cent since 2001, but the impact appears to be slowing down with overall numbers across the …
Outbreak of epidemic is looming large following floods in Balasore and Mayurbhanj districts. While two persons have died of diarrhoea in Morada, several others have been hospitalised. The deceased, Muchiram Soren (53) and Raunde Murmu (70), belonged to flood-hit Kusumakuti village in Mayurbhanj district. Soren succumbed to the disease while …
China, India and the Russian Federation have the highest burden of MDR-TB followed by 24 other countries says this 18th edition of the global report on tuberculosis released by WHO at Geneva. This is the eighteenth global report on tuberculosis (TB) published by WHO in a series that started in …
A new study has found a 10 per cent increase in the number of HIV-infected cases in Australia, which is said to be the fastest in the last two decades. A latest annual report was released by Kirby Institute at the University of New South Wales on Sexually Transmissible Infections …
Despite World Health Organization (WHO) prequalification of two safe and effective oral cholera vaccines (OCV), concerns about the acceptability, potential diversion of resources, cost and feasibility of implementing timely campaigns has discouraged their use. In 2012, the Ministry of Health of Guinea, with the support of Médecins Sans Frontières organized …
A cholera outbreak in central Mexico has risen to 159 confirmed cases and spread to four states as well as the capital, the country's health minister said on Monday. One death has been attributed to the outbreak, the ministry said as it launched a nationwide public health campaign aimed at …
Madagascar faces a bubonic plague epidemic unless it slows the spread of the disease, experts have warned. The Red Cross and Pasteur Institute say inmates in the island's dirty, crowded jails are particularly at risk. The number of cases rises each October as hot humid weather attracts fleas, which transmit …
Amidstcries of a dengue epidemic in Delhi, Mumbai also recorded its highest incidence in September alone with more than 168 cases. Of the six deaths attributed to the mosquito-borne viral disease this year, five occurred last month. Experts are certain dengue continues to be worrisome. It started with 32 cases …
AIDS Initiative was launched in 2003 in six States The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation-funded Avahan programme may have prevented over 6 lakh HIV infections in India over 10 years, according to a report in Lancet Global Health . It may be recalled that a 2011 study, by other institutes, …
As many as 45 dengue cases have come to light in the last six days. With this, the total number of dengue positive patients for the state capital stands at 169. The list of affected includes Kalraj Mishra, the Bharatiya Janata Party MLA from Lucknow East. But, if cases from …
With 57 cases in a decade, it is far below the hardest-hit countries, Congo with 10,581 and Madagascar with 7,182. Still, it is the only wealthy country on the list; 97 percent of cases are in Africa. The survey was published Monday by The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and …
A total of 1,497 people died of infectious diseases on the Chinese mainland in August, with AIDS the top cause of death, according to figures released by health authorities on Monday. AIDS infections resulted in 1,102 deaths last month, according to a statement posted on the website of the National …
A deadly pig virus, which first broke out in India earlier this year, has made a comeback in Mizoram. Almost 250 infected pigs have been culled in the past two months and more than 900 suspected samples are currently awaiting the tests, senior officials said. The virus, which causes Porcine …
The first death caused by dengue fever outside the city has alarmed the provincial health department and demanding the health and municipal authorities of various districts to improve their efforts to ensure that the fever does not spread across the province with epidemic proportions, it emerged on Sunday. At least …
The world’s eighth Global Diseases Detection (GDD) Regional Center, which works to identify, control and combat priority infectious diseases, opened in Bangladesh yesterday. The centre is housed in the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR), the disease control wing of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), in …
Bhutan has diagnosed 24 new HIV positive cases between December 1, 2012 and June 30 this year, taking the country’s total number of detected cases to 321, almost two decades after it detected its first case. Of the new 24 cases, 13 are males and the rest females. According to …
Medical experts yesterday said that HIV positive cases continued to show an alarming increase in Sri Lanka. Director of the Health Ministry’s National STD/AIDS Control Programme (NSACP) Dr. Sisira Liyanage told The Island that homosexuality was partly responsible for the prevalent rate of HIV and AIDS in the country. Dr. …
Gastroenteritis is out of control across district Rawalpindi as 1243 patients have been brought to three hospitals of the garrison city since the advent of the holy month of Ramazan. A total of 447 gastro patients have been brought to Holy Family Hospital, 390 to Benazir Bhutto General Hospital and …
