A deadly form of plague has broken out on Uganda's border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and several people are thought to have died of the disease, the World Health Organization said earlier this week. The agency praised Ugandan health workers for vigilance and prompt action in …
The medieval Black Death (c. 1347-1351) was one of the most devastating epidemics in human history. It killed tens of millions of Europeans, and recent analyses have shown that the disease targeted elderly adults and individuals who had been previously exposed to physiological stressors. Following the epidemic, there were improvements …
At least 20 people in one village in Madagascar have died in an outbreak of the bubonic plague. The International Committee of the Red Cross first issued warnings in October that the island was at risk of an epidemic of the disease, which is spread by fleas and rats. Gaelle …
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 …
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 …
One person in Southwest China's Sichuan province died of plague on Sept 7, the Ministry of Health said Monday. The case was reported in Cunge township, Litang county, Garze Tibetan autonomous prefecture, the ministry said on its website, quoting a report from Sichuan's provincial health department. A herder surnamed Da …
The government is planning to make cancer a “notifiable disease”, which will mean every case will have to be reported. Till now infectious diseases like polio, plague, H1N1, H5N1 (bird flu) figure in the list of notifiable diseases. Recently, tuberculosis was made a notifiable disease. Cancer would become the first …
The Amur tiger has an extremely small population in the Russian Far East. However due to conservation efforts, that population has remained stable at around 350 individuals living in the wild. Recent reports have shown the population declining further, and one of the causes taken into consideration is a virus …
Plague in Brazil is poorly known and now rarely seen, so studies of its ecology are difficult. We used ecological niche models of historical (1966-present) records of human plague cases across northeastern Brazil to assess hypotheses regarding environmental correlates of plague occurrences across the region. Results indicate that the apparently …
Hardik Shah | TNN Vapi: Goat plague has killed at least 400 goats and sheep in Vapi in the past 10 days. This has converted the animal asylum here into a graveyard. Officials of animal and husbandry department, Valsad have rushed to Vapi from
World Health Organisation (WHO) warned Bangladesh and other South East Asian countries about the pneumonic plague that had recently hit China. As it is a public health emergency of international concern and China is not far from Bangladesh, WHO warned Bangladesh to take cautionary steps to control the spread of …
With California in its third year of drought, concern over access to clean water is no longer limited to the developing world. Here are some facts about global water scarcity, according to the World Health Organization. * Water scarcity affects one in three people on every continent and is getting …
Chairman of the Senate Committee on Interior Senator Talha Mehmood has said that substandard drugs at the camps of internally displaced persons (IDPs) may add to the sufferings of ailing individuals, and urged the authorities to intensify inspection of drugs being distributed at these camps. Talking to Business Recorder from …
Ahmedabad : Hepatitis-B outbreak that crept silently upon unsuspecting victims has claimed more lives than the Surat plague which drew global attention and saw not less than five lakh people fleeing the city in panic! Final toll of hepatitis-B that startled health authorities by claiming quick victims stood at 59 …
Ahmedabad: Hepatitis-B outbreak that crept silently upon unsuspecting victims has claimed more lives than the suspected Surat plague which drew global attention and saw not less than five lakh people fleeing the city in panic! Final toll of hepatitis-B that startled health authorities by claiming quick victims stood at 59 …
OSLO - Rare outbreaks of plague in the United States seem to match climate shifts over the Pacific Ocean in a hint that global warming may make the region too hot and dry for the disease, scientists said on Wednesday. Feared as the "Black Death" of the 14th century that …
plague cases are on the rise and are afflicting countries more frequently than before. A who report says there were around 1,900 cases worldwide in 2002, which increased to 2,100 cases in 2003. In India, 16 cases of pneumonic plague were identified in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, in 2002
This is one of 1,500 skeletons of bubonic plague victims, whose mass grave was recently discovered on the island of Lazzaretto Vecchio, in Italy's Venetian Lagoon. When the disease struck Venice in the 15th and 16th centuries, anthropologists say, everyone sick or showing symptoms of plague were quarantined on the …
disabling protein: Antibiotics can now treat pneumonic plague. The protein that causes the rapid spread of the ailment, has been identified. Disabling the protein, called plasminogen activator, can control the spread and give time to physicians to treat. The attack is significantly slowed down because it cannot use the key …
scientists at the Indian Veterinary Research Institute (ivri) in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, have developed the country's first vaccine against the notorious peste des petits ruminants (ppr) disease that afflicts sheep and goats. Also known as sheep and goat plague, ppr epidemics occur every year in India, causing an annual loss …
