Infectious Diseases

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding pollution of Godavari river, Telangana, 29/05/2025

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari threatens lives livelihoods appearing in the Telangana Today dated 13.05.2025" dated 29/05/2025. The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari …

UNICEF, UNAIDS launch report on ending adolescent AIDS in Eastern and Southern Africa

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the United Nations Joint Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) launched a report titled All In, in Eastern and Southern Africa: Catalysing the HIV response for adolescents. Launched at the 22nd International AIDS Conference in Amsterdam, the report demonstrates progress made on adolescent HIV programming …

Diarrhoea-causing bacteria found on food items in Hyderabad

According to experts, shigella has shown steady trends towards multiple drug resistance. Hyderabad: Shigella bacteria, which cause diarrhoea and spread mainly through water, has been found in a wide variety of food like beef, chicken, egg, milk, fish, vegetables and fruits collected from farms in and around Hyderabad. The study, …

East Africa: Eastern, Southern Africa Most Affected by HIV Epidemic

A report by UNAIDS, "Miles to go—closing gaps, breaking barriers, righting injustices", warns that the global response to HIV is at a critical point. Eastern and southern Africa remain the regions most affected by the HIV epidemic, accounting for 45 percent of the world's HIV infections and 53 percent of …

Uganda: 83 Percent Ugandans With HIV Show Unseen Virus - Survey

Kampala — Uganda is a step closer to achieving 90 per cent of the people living with HIV/Aids having the amount of the virus in their bodies suppressed by 2020, as one of the global targets set to end the Aids epidemic. The move is based on the findings by …

Govt gears up to curb swine flu

Jaipur: With rains lashing the state, health department is apprehensive that swine flu and scrub typhus cases might resurface in the state. The health department has geared up to prevent spread of the disease in the state. The health department has issued direction to its officials to remain prepared to …

Innovations, multi-stakeholder partnerships key to TB-free India by 2025: Experts

PUNE: International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union) in partnership with the Union ministry of Health and Family Welfare brought together leaders and experts from the government, civil society, and private sector in New Delhi on Thursday (July12) to discuss the role of innovations and partnerships for a …

Focus on infection control, Kangaroo mothercare has helped lower mortality rate at SNCUs to 7.6%’

Online software training sessions were also conducted for 14 medical colleges with Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs) to further clarify the status of the sick newborns. While the number of sick neonates admitted to the 36 Special Newborn Care Units (SNCUs) across the state has increased since last year, a …

Ebola survivors suffer severe mental and neurological problems

People who survive the deadly Ebola virus can continue to suffer severe psychiatric and neurological problems including depression, debilitating migraines, nerve pain and stroke, according to a study published on Wednesday. Researchers who analysed patients infected during the 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak in West Africa found that some survivors had such …

Spanish researchers develop five-strain Ebola vaccine

Spanish researchers are working on a vaccine against all five strains of the killer Ebola virus in what would be a world first, Madrid's October 12 Hospital said Wednesday. A prototype vaccine developed by pharmaceutical group Merck is already in use, but acts only against the most virulent, "Zaire" strain. …

Vaccine to protect pigs from swine fever launched

Punjab first state in North India to manufacture medicine Swine fever vaccine developed by the Punjab Veterinary Vaccine Institute (PVVI) to protect pigs from the deadly disease was launched on Tuesday at the Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University’s (GADVASU) four-day international workshop on “Antimicrobial Resistance and Strategies …

Climate change can slow GDP by 9.8 per cent

Living standards for half of Indians may fall due to temperature change: Report Hyderabad: Climate change will affect the gross domestic product (GDP) per capita, which would mean a decline of 14.4 per cent in Bangladesh, 9.8 per cent in India, and 10.0 per cent in Sri Lanka by 2050. …

Telangana Health Status: Swine flu, chikungunya cases decline; dengue cases up

HYDERABAD: As per the latest ‘Health Status Indicators Report 2018’ released by the Centre, among the major diseases, swine flu cases saw a slight decline (from 2956 to 2165) between 2015-2017, chikungunya cases too declined from 2067 to 663 during the period in Telangana state. Dengue cases, however, saw a …

Kerala govt declares Kozhikode, Malappuram districts as Nipah virus free

The government had lifted the high alert in the districts and said the virus has been brought under control and its spread checked. Educational institutions, which were scheduled to open on June 1, were reopened on June 11. Kozhikode and Malappuram districts, where 17 people died of Nipah in May, …

Carbapenem-resistant Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae of Sequence Type 36

Sequence type 36 (ST36) Klebsiella pneumoniae is distributed worldwide. We found an ST36 K. pneumoniae clinical isolate that was carbapenem resistant, carried blaKPC-2, had mucoid regulator gene rmpA, and exhibited high virulence. The finding suggests the emergence of carbapenem-resistant hypervirulent K. pneumoniae of ST36, and surveillance of carbapenem-resistant hypervirulent K. …

Accelerate progress—sexual and reproductive health and rights for all: report of the Guttmacher–Lancet Commission

Sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) are fundamental to people’s health and survival, to economic development, and to the wellbeing of humanity. Several decades of research have shown—and continue to show—the profound and measurable benefits of investment in sexual and reproductive health. Through international agreements, governments have committed to …

Dengue, swine flu on the rise

There were 50 cases reported in 2016 and five deaths recorded. Hyderabad: Dengue and swine flu have seen a rise in 2016-17 and continue to take their toll in the monsoon and winter seasons, according to National Health Profile. Deaths caused due to swine flu were 1786 in 2016 and …

How human semen increase spread of Ebola virus infection

Researchers have found that protein found in human semen significantly increases Ebola virus infection, explaining how sexual transmission has led to the virus' resurgence. Although Ebola is transmitted primarily through direct contact with blood and other body fluids from infected people, follow-up studies from the 2014 epidemic found that men …

As DRC Grapples with Ebola, Guinea Keeps Up Its Guard

Just after a morning rain, Gourma Mamadou was shopping in this capital city's crowded, open-air Kaloum market. The young man said he was well aware of the current Ebola outbreak simmering some 4,000 kilometers to the southeast in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where the World Health Organization reports …

SA’s mass roll-out of revolutionary drug resistant TB treatment a world first

South Africa’s Department of Health on Monday became the first in the world to announce a mass roll-out of a more tolerable drug to fight multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB). Injectables currently used to treat TB are notorious for their harsh side effects. The drug‚ bedaquiline‚ will replace existing treatment regimens for …

Uganda: 46,000 More People Catch HIV

Kampala — About 46,000 Ugandans contracted HIV last year, according to new Uganda Aids Commission (UAC) study findings released yesterday. These infections are, however, a drop from the 52,000 recorded the year before, according to UAC Director General, Dr Nelson Musoba. "The number of new infections stood at 46,000 in …

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