The number of lives lost due to viral hepatitis infections is increasing and already accounts for 3,500 deaths daily, according to this report by the World Health Organization (WHO). This is the first consolidated WHO report on viral hepatitis epidemiology, service coverage and product access, with improved data for action. …
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) yesterday announced that fresh cases of Monkeypox disease had been recorded in the country. A statement by the NCDC Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Chikwe Ihekweazu, disclosed this. He said 19 fresh cases had been recorded across the country, aside from the 12 cases …
Those attending to patients & sanitation staff who are at risk to get priority The Health Department has made available immunisation vaccines against swine flu to high-risk employees who generally attend to suspected and confirmed cases of swine flu coming to the health facilties in the district for treatment. The …
Seasonal flu vaccination is not part of India's national vaccination policy So far this year, H1N1 or swine flu has infected 18,000 people and killed 871, a nine-fold rise over the 1,786 cases and 265 deaths reported last year. Two years after a massive outbreak in 2015 that infected 42,500 …
The ICMR said, “Dengue, chikungunia and malaria are prevelent in India and combating them is a major concern.” Hyderabad: With dengue, chikungunia and malaria prevalent in India, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) is looking to develop a vaccine to combat infectious diseases. The ICMR said, “Dengue, chikungunia and malaria …
India on Monday entered into an agreement with International Vaccine Institute (IVI) in South Korea under which it has committed an annual contribution of $5,00,000 for vaccine research and development. The MoU was signed between the Indian Council of Medical Research and the IVI. The partnership will promote further collaborative …
Access to medical hubs, better staff and awareness drive must to solve issue The Centre’s committee that visited BRD stated the hospital had filled only four of 12 vacancies for senior residents and the nursing staff was untrained to handle babies. An average of 20 deaths a day in a …
Vaccination and clinical testing of the Russian vaccine Gam Evac Combi against the deadly Ebola virus, launched in Guinea on August 9, will continue until the end of 2018, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday. "Under the program of trials, volunteers will be vaccinated with Gam Evac Combi and …
Plants have been "hijacked" to make polio vaccine in a breakthrough with the potential to transform vaccine manufacture, say scientists. The team at the John Innes Centre, in Norfolk, says the process is cheap, easy and quick. As well as helping eliminate polio, the scientists believe their approach could help …
The UN World Health Organisation (WHO) said it had not recorded any case of polio disease in Somalia in the last three years, declaring the country polio free. The WHO said the country recorded the last case of polio in 2014 in the central part of the country but has …
Kano — Kano State government has concluded the July round of poliomyelitis vaccination of over three million children below five years. In a chat with LEADERSHIP , the executive Secretary, Kano State Primary Health Care Management Board, Dr. Nasir Mahmoud stated that the July exercise was hitch-free, declaring that the …
Chandigarh: Even though three PGI doctors have contracted swine flu (H1N1 virus) recently, most doctors still shy away from taking the preventive vaccine. Doctors of the Sector-16 Government Multi-Specialty Hospital (GMSH) received the vaccine on June 6 but antibodies take at least two weeks to get activated. Also, a circular …
About 12,460 people have been affected by swine flu till July 9, 2017, and 600 people have died due to the H1N1 virus. India is witnessing a spurt in the number of deaths and infections caused by swine flu, also known as the H1N1 virus, this year. As per a …
Health and Family Welfare Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday disclosed that while Japanese Encephalitis has claimed 44 lives, 87 persons have died due to Acute Encephalitis Syndrome in the State this year in the State so far. The hospitals across the State have recorded 305 and 1111 cases of …
HYDERABAD: Though two cases of swine flu in Hyderabad have already tested positive for the mutated Michigan strain of the virus, the state health authorities do not have a single vial of the new vaccine required to fight the mutated virus.This despite the World Health Organisation (WHO) advising countries earlier …
GURUGRAM: A three-day long intensified pulse polio immunisation drive was launched in the district on Sunday, under which 3,34,065 children are expected to be vaccinated. The immunization day will be conducted in 13 districts of Haryana, including Gurgaon. Chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar kick-started the drive at Gurgaon. The drive …
India offers a rare ray of hope for an indigenously-made vaccine against chikungunya, but delay in finding volunteers is impeding its development. India offers a rare ray of hope for an indigenously-made vaccine against chikungunya, but delay in finding volunteers is impeding its development. With chikungunya spreading very fast in …
Two separate outbreaks of polio in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have set back global efforts to eradicate the debilitating disease. Two cases in Haut-Lomami province and another two in Maniema were confirmed by the World Health Organisation, which last week said the virus had also come back in …
Democratic Republic of Congo has suffered two separate outbreaks of polio, a debilitating and potentially deadly disease that the world is trying to eradicate, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday. Confirmation of the outbreaks in Congo's Haut-Lomami and Maniema provinces came less than a week after the WHO said …
DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Hit by one of its deadliest meningitis outbreaks in years, with more than 1,000 deaths, Nigeria could struggle to contain future epidemics due to a shortage of vaccines, health experts said. Africa's most populous country has recorded about 14,500 suspected cases and at least 1,150 …
