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2024-10-08 12:00:09 Trachoma, a leading cause of infectious blindness, is a chlamydial infection. New Delhi: India was on Tuesday felicitated by the World Health Organisation for the elimination of trachoma…
2024-09-04 15:33:42 The WHO reported nearly 103,000 confirmed cases worldwide. The World Health Organisation declared the last mpox global emergency over in May 2023. And just over a year later,…
2024-08-23 13:04:18 The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday its partners such as Gavi and Unicef can start buying mpox vaccines before they are approved by the UN health…
2024-07-29 12:52:09 The disease has currently no vaccine available A man in Spain died after contracting a lethal ‘bleeding eyes’ disease called Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF), a deadly viral disease…
2024-07-11 21:00:49 WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus sounded a warning on declining vaccine coverage. Geneva: Covid-19 is still killing around 1,700 people a week around the world, the World Health…
2024-06-07 23:59:12 The WHO assesses the current risk to the general population posed by the virus as low. Geneva: A two-and-a-half-year-old girl tested positive for H5N1 bird flu and needed…
2024-05-12 18:22:23 Shopkeeper Nazer Mohammad ran home as soon as he heard about flash floods crashing into the outskirts of a provincial capital in northern Afghanistan. By the time he…
2024-04-09 19:23:53 Viral hepatitis is 2nd-biggest infectious killer, narrowly trailing tuberculosis. (Representational) More than 3,500 people die from hepatitis viruses every day and the global toll is rising, the World…
2024-02-20 17:46:51 Israel’s military campaign in Gaza has since killed more than 29,000 Palestinians Gunfire echoed around Palestinian medics, patients and displaced people during what they described as a terrifying…
2024-01-23 18:09:45 Vaccination rates against measles have been dropping across the globe. Copenhagen: Measles cases soared in Europe in 2023 to 42,200, a nearly 45-fold increase over the previous year,…