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 …
Maharashtra has invoked the Epidemic Diseases Act in the textile town of Icchalkaranji in the wake of 12 Hepatitis E deaths and over 4,085 people infected in a month. Kolhapur civil surgeon Dr L Patil told The Indian Express that the Act provides for steps to control and prevent the …
The state has invoked the Epidemic Diseases Act in the textile town of Ichalkaranji in the wake of 12 Hepatitis E deaths and over 4,085 people infected in a month. As many as 78 pregnant women are also among the infected, of whom 40 in their third trimester have been …
Less than four months ago the world was cheered to learn that India had gone a full year with no new cases of polio - a landmark that left only Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria on the World Health Organization's list of countries where the disease is endemic. But the battle …
China faces a "serious epidemic" of drug-resistant tuberculosis according to the first-ever nationwide estimate of the size of the problem there, said a US-published study on Wednesday. "In 2007, one third of the patients with new cases of tuberculosis and one half of the patients with previously treated tuberculosis had …
Tobacco use is one of the leading preventable causes of death. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), the global tobacco epidemic kills nearly 6 million people each year, of which more than 600,000 are people who have been exposed to second-hand smoke (passive smoking). World No Tobacco Day is …
A US aid program aimed at helping foreign countries battle the AIDS epidemic saved 740,000 lives from 2004-2008, according to a US study published Tuesday. The US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR, was started by former president George W. Bush in 2003 with a five-year, $15 billion …
Till now, doctors in the private sector were free to treat TB patients, and weren't required to keep a record. India has finally declared tuberculosis (TB) a notifiable disease. The announcement signifies that with immediate effect, all private doctors, caregivers and clinics treating a patient suffering from TB will have …
Cholera, the most dreadful of all diarrhoeal diseases, is an acute intestinal infection, caused by Vibrio cholerae, which afflicts 3 to 5 million of people and causes 0.1 million deaths every year . Cholera outbreaks have been infrequently reported from developed countries and often reported from various parts of developing, …
It is not in the interest of food companies to advertise what their products contain, but it is in our interest to know Junk food is junk by its very definition. But how bad is it and what is it that companies do not tell people about this food? This …
A recent death of a person in Edathala due to hepatitis E has sparked off health concerns in the district that had seen a grave situation last year too because of outbreak of hepatitis in various parts of the district leading to an epidemic-like situation. An emergency meeting has been …
“Scientific facts do not support fears of threat to Asiatic lion population in Gir” The Gujarat government on Monday strongly opposed any move to shift the Asiatic lions from the Gir forest to Kuno Palpur in Madhya Pradesh. It contended that the lions would not be safe there. Appearing for …
In the last three months, one person died and 12 others were diagnosed with the A (H1N1) virus in the State, according to a release from the Department of Health and Family Welfare here on Monday. The infection was found to have affected people in Chennai, Coimbatore and Tiruppur. The …
With seven swine flu cases reported in the city, the civic body is making efforts to ensure that sufficient arrangements are in place for an aggravated situation. The BMC has directed all laboratories and hospitals, both private and public, to submit daily reports of suspected swine flu samples they receive …
The swine flu epidemic has been very serious in Pune this year, when compared to anywhere in the state or even in the country. Doctors feel that it is partly to do with the erratic weather, besides factors including many not having developed immunity to the virus, like a few …
At Pune’s Prayag hospital, Ram Mehra (name changed) has been battling swine flu for the past 10 days. He was admitted with pneumonia and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS), and doctors initially felt he would not survive the flu attack. “The patient was also immuno compromised as his heart muscle …
IMPHAL: Hepatitis B positive has taken the scale of an epidemic in the tribal villages of Tamenglong district. At least one teenaged girl has died and 17 others have been shifted to the hospital. The disease was reported from Marangching and some other villages around Noney. The prevalence of the …
Brazilian Health Minister Alexandre Padilla on Thursday warned that Rio de Janeiro faced a major dengue epidemic, although he said the virus strain prevalent was not fatal. "I believe that Rio could this year face one of the worst dengue epidemics in its history, in terms of number of cases," …
Sri Lankan health authorities have assured that the death of a large number of fowls earlier at a chicken farm in Bingiriya in the North Western Province is not due to bird flu and there is no cause for concern. Director General of the Department of Animal Products and Health …
Frequent travels, past displacement and current repatriation of millions of Afghans have put the Afghan population at risk of infection with novel, possibly drug-resistant strains of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and treatment for such infections may prove challenging for the development of effective vaccines and antiretroviral therapies, a recent study …
