640 gastroenteritis cases, 312 typhoid, 193 jaundice, and more: Ahmedabad logs over 1,000 waterborne illnesses in just 25 daysAhmedabad is grappling with a surge in waterborne diseases this summer, particularly in the eastern part of the city, due to contaminated d...
27 May, 2025, 09.20 PM IST
Bharat Biotech's cholera vaccine successfully completes Phase-III trialsBharat Biotech's oral Cholera Vaccine, Hillchol, has successfully completed phase III clinical trials, demonstrating non-inferiority agains...
21 May, 2025, 03.51 PM IST
El Nino of 1904-07 may have helped spread cholera in India, study findsResearchers found that unusual weather patterns driven by the El Nino event from 1904-1907 may have facilitated the spread of a new cholera...
02 Aug, 2024, 04.03 PM IST
Bengaluru PGs put on high alert after cholera cases detected in cityCholera cases at Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute trigger an alert for PG owners from their association. Guidelines stress ...
09 Apr, 2024, 09.57 PM IST
Cholera scare at Bengaluru medical college. Two students test positive, four in ICUAccording to a representative from Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute (BMCRI) speaking to TOI, two medical students currently...
06 Apr, 2024, 06.27 PM IST
47 students from Bangalore Medical College hospitalised following complaints of loose stools, dehydrationAccording to Ramesh Krishna, Dean and Director of BMCRI, 47 students from the Institute's girls hostel were admitted to Victoria Hospital o...
06 Apr, 2024, 10.56 AM IST
Health advisory issued as temperature soars in KeralaThe State Health Department's move came a day after a heat index report from the KSDMA showed extreme 'feels like temperature' in many part...
10 Mar, 2023, 09.28 PM IST
In China's Wuhan, cholera-causing bacteria in turtles strikes nerveWhile no human cholera case was found among people who came in contact with the softshell turtles, the specific store selling them was orde...
15 Jul, 2022, 08.01 AM IST
Artificial Intelligence can help better prediction of cholera outbreaks in coastal regions of India, reveals new study21 Dec, 2020, 01.27 PM IST
New cholera vaccine in clinical stage promises to end supply shortageCholera is an acute diarrheal infection caused by food or water carrying the vibrio cholerae bacteria.
27 Jun, 2019, 09.45 AM IST
Indian peacekeepers in Haiti administered cholera vaccinesLast year, then UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon had apologised to the people of Haiti for the world body's role in failing to properly add...
13 Jul, 2018, 12.36 PM IST
Hilleman Laboratories receives Swedish grant for oral cholera vaccineThe World Health Organisation estimates that there are nearly every year there are roughly 1.3 to 4 million cases Cholera cases globally an...
28 Sep, 2017, 04.51 PM IST
UN wants more info from India on anti-cholera vaccination claimsThe Indian soldiers had landed in Haiti in August last year and reportedly India had certified that they were administered the cholera vacc...
10 Jan, 2017, 11.48 AM IST
140 Indian soldiers to be given cholera vaccination in HaitiHaiti has been grappling with a cholera outbreak. The Indian soldiers had landed in Haiti in August last year and reportedly India had cert...
09 Jan, 2017, 09.47 PM IST
1,433 people died of infectious disease in China: ReportLast month, 1,172 people living with HIV/AIDS died, according to a statement by the National Health and Family Planning Commission.
11 Oct, 2015, 12.52 PM IST
- 3,00,000 Zimbabweans threatened by cholera: Oxfam
Oxfam warned that Zimbabwe's cholera epidemic posed a "grave danger" to 300,000 people already weakened by food shortages, as the governmen...
05 Dec, 2008, 07.29 AM IST
- 700 cholera cases reported in capital
It is the time of cholera in Delhi and the cases have shot up way above 700.
15 Jul, 2007, 05.07 AM IST