This document is the second in a series of global reports describing progress towards the 2030 targets set in Ending the neglect to attain the Sustainable Development Goals: a road map for neglected tropical diseases 2021–2030. It describes a wide range of activities, accomplishments and challenges across the portfolio of …
The United States has reported its first case of a newborn suffering from brain damage linked to the mosquito-borne Zika virus that has caused birth defects in Latin America. The baby, born in a hospital in Oahu, suffers from microcephaly, a rare condition that means its brain and skull are …
People in South-East Asia and central Sub-Saharan Africa are particularly at risk of viral diseases carried by bats, a map shows. The global risk map is designed to support research into avoiding the transfer of diseases from bats to humans and to help health workers pinpoint infection hotspots and target …
The Global Risks Report 2016 features perspectives from nearly 750 experts on the perceived impact and likelihood of 29 prevalent global risks over a 10-year timeframe. The risks are divided into five categories: economic, environmental, geopolitical, societal and technological. The report also examines the interconnections among the risks, and through …
Peridomestic (“backyard”) chicken flocks are gaining popularity in the developed world (e.g., North America or Europe), yet little is known regarding prevalence or severity of their ectoparasites. Therefore, five birds on each of 20 properties throughout southern California were surveyed in summer for on-host (permanent) and off-host dwelling (temporary) ectoparasites. …
BHUBANESWAR: With diabetes fast assuming the shape of epidemic, not even sparing the backward regions and lower strata of the population in Odisha, the Government should act urgently to gear up its public health response systems, experts stressed. The State is simply not ready to tackle the disease that is …
Dar es Salaam — Rabies, a viral infection which mainly results from dog-bites kill around 1,500 people in Tanzania each year, statistics shows. A majority of people who die from the highly infectious condition are children from poor and marginal communities, experts say. Despite being an immunisable disease, rabies kills …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Vardhaman Kaushik Vs. Union of India & Ors. dated 06/01/2016 regarding diseases as a result of pollution majorly generated by air pollution. Gujarat, Bihar, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Telangana, Odisha, Chhatisgarh, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Jharkhand would file a comprehensive affidavit stating …
The potential for domestic biogas is enormous in Cambodia with 1 million households that have sufficient livestock to feed for the smallest biogas digester. Biogas could therefore help to address HAP in Cambodia to millions of rural inhabitants. The National Biodigester Programme (NBP) of Cambodia, a partnership between SNV and …
This report highlights the essential role of pandemic preparedness in national security and economic stability, a critical but often under-examined dimension of the global conversation post-Ebola. Importantly, the report demonstrates that the impact of infectious disease crises goes far beyond human health alone and that mitigation, likewise, requires the mobilization …
A human H5N6 avian flu case has been reported in Shenzhen City in south China's Guangdong Province. The patient, a 26-year-old woman, is in critical condition and is receiving treatment in a local hospital, the Guangdong health department said on Tuesday. Experts believe the infection is an isolated case, and …
RIO DE JANEIRO – The number of Brazilian babies born with abnormally small heads – a condition known as microcephaly – as a result of prenatal infection with the Zika virus rose 7 percent last week, the Health Ministry said. The number of babies born with microcephaly this year in …
A swine flu outbreak in Iran has killed 112 people since mid-November and the country's first medical worker has died of the virus, media said on Monday. "About 1,190 people have been diagnosed with the (H1N1) virus and hospitalised" and "the death toll has reached 112", state news agency IRNA …
More than half of U.S. states are poorly prepared to respond to infectious disease outbreaks, a new report says. Twenty-eight states and Washington, D.C. did not pass muster for preventing, detecting, diagnosing and responding to such outbreaks, researchers found. They added that the United States must boost efforts to protect …
THE H1N1 flu virus has become the major influenza strain in the city this winter and there has been a rise in the number of cases this month, officials from the Shanghai Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said yesterday. It is the first time the virus has been …
Four people died, while 1 200 others were treated for malaria in Karoi town following an outbreak that occurred in the past two months, Mashonaland West provincial medical director Dr Wancelous Nyamayaro has said. In an interview yesterday, Dr Nyamayaro said suspected malaria cases in the district have gone up …
A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that life expectancy for a newborn is about 79 years old for the third year year in a row. The CDC's 2014 mortality report showed infant mortality in the United States hit a historic low of 582.1 …
The World Health Organization on Tuesday launched a new comprehensive analysis of global health trends since 2000 and an assessment of the challenges for the next 15 years, a UN spokesman said here. The report, entitled Health in 2015: from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to the Sustainable Development Goals …
New estimates from WHO show a significant increase in the number of countries moving towards malaria elimination, with prevention efforts saving millions of dollars in healthcare costs over the past 14 years in many African countries. According to the "World Malaria Report 2015", more than half (57) of the 106 …
A draft National Occupational Health Safety Strategic Plan 2016-2020 was recently validated at a ceremony held at the CIAM National Malaria Conference Hall in Kanifing. The event was presided over by Bolong Jobarteh, the Chief Public Health Officer at the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, on behalf of the …
The swine flu strain has spread around the world since its discovery six years ago An outbreak of swine flu in two south-eastern provinces of Iran has killed at least 33 people over the last three weeks, state media report. Iran's Deputy Health Minister Ali-Akbar Sayyari told the official IRNA …
