India has dispatched its first shipment of medical supplies and protective kits to the African Centre for Diseases Control and Prevention i...

India has issued a travel advisory urging citizens to avoid non-essential trips to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, and South ...

Dr. Theresa Tam, Canada's chief public health officer, will leave her role in June 2025. She served for eight years, dealing with major hea...

A mysterious illness in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has resulted in over 400 cases and 53 deaths since January 21. Health experts,...

Two residents were suspected of contracting Ebola after coming in contact with a person had recently travelled to Uganda, where an outbreak...

Formerly known as monkeypox, the Mpox virus is evolving and spreading faster than expected, particularly in Africa.

Nipah virus was first identified in Malaysia in 1998. Cases such as the recent death of a boy in Kerala, India have raised concerns that it...

“If you can do contact tracing in those conditions, risking your life, doing contact tracing in a stable and peaceful place - should that e...

Last week Anthony Fauci the infectious disease expert handling the Covid-19 management in the United States of America (USA) said that it w...

As the world focuses on the pandemic, experts fear losing ground in the long fight against other infectious diseases like AIDS, tuberculosi...

The coronavirus is a large family of viruses that causes illnesses ranging from the common cold to acute respiratory syndromes, but the vir...

AIIMS recently held a workshop to acquaint doctors with the key symptoms of the disease and how to detect it at the earliest.

In preparation for the rains the WFP has prepositioned supplies and WHO is strengthening national capacities, even in unaffected areas.

The petition by advocate Vineet Dhanda sought the court's direction to the Centre and state governments to take adequate steps to prevent t...

The infected people are in the "hot zone of disease transmission" on the borders of the three countries most impacted by the disease.

WHO declares effective Ebola vaccine will not be available before 2015;British pharma giant GlaxoSmithKline to start clinical trials of vac...