Ebola watch: Health Ministry directs states, UTs to bolster surveillanceIndia is enhancing its readiness for Ebola. The Union Health Ministry has directed states to boost surveillance and hospital preparedness. ...
India monitors Ebola outbreak in DRC, Uganda; preparedness measures strengthenedIndia is closely watching the Ebola virus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda. The nation is enhancing its surveillance...
Unlike Covid-19, hantavirus not known for rapid human transmission, spreads through rodents: ExpertsHantavirus cases linked to a cruise ship with Indian nationals have sparked concerns, but experts declare these infections are confined to ...
Health ministry issues advisory on safe use of paediatric cough syrups after child deaths in Madhya PradeshThe DGHS issued an advisory on rational cough syrup use for children following deaths in Madhya Pradesh. Investigations found no DEG/EG in ...
National Institute of Virology develops portable 'point-of-care' test kit for detecting Nipah virusIndia can now swiftly detect the Nipah virus with a newly developed portable test kit by the National Institute of Virology (NIV). This poi...
Guillain-Barre Syndrome cases in Pune under investigation: DG ICMRMaharashtra has reported over 100 cases of Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS), leading to investigations by the Indian Council of Medical Resear...
Health Ministry sends team to Pune amid surge in Guillain-Barré Syndrome casesA high-level team has been sent to Pune by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to address the surge in Guillain Barre Syndrome ...
Suspected Zika case: Sample from Andhra sent to NIV Pune for confirmationA five-year-old boy from Venkatapuram village in Nellore district, Andhra Pradesh, is suspected of having the Zika virus. His blood sample ...
Results on vaccine efficacy against new variant likely next weekIndia's Covid-19 advisory group is hopeful that by next week NIV would be able to culture the virus and may know how the existing vaccines ...
Priority is to strengthen contact tracing, find source of infection, says Kerala Health MinisterShe said there are chances of an increase in the number of contacts as the parents have taken the child to a clinic first, then to a privat...
First Zika virus case reported in KeralaOf the 19 samples sent from Thiruvananthapuram, 13 health workers, including doctors, are suspected to be positive for Zika, the minister s...
ICMR teams up with Bharat Biotech to develop COVID-19 vaccineThe vaccine will be developed using the virus strain isolated at the ICMR's National Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune, a statement said. T...
Gujarat reports first coronavirus cases; two infectedFor the first time, two positive cases of the novel coronavirus, one of them a woman, were detected in Gujarat, said officials on Thursday ...
Three Maharashtra labs testing coronavirus samples from other states tooOf these three facilities, the Pune-based National Institute of Virology (NIV) is a global referral laboratory, which gets samples even fro...
Kerala woman student's fresh test result comes out negative for coronavirusShe had tested positive for the virus on her return from Wuhan in China recently and been undergoing treatment in the isolation ward of a g...
Sun Pharma, NIV join hands to fight zika, chikungunya, dengueUnder the agreement, Sun Pharma will provide drug molecules to NIV for testing against zika, chikungunya and dengue in model systems, the c...
Deliberately didn't reveal Zika cases to public: Gujarat governmentSingh admitted that even though the virus spreads through Aedes Aegypti mosquito, which is endemic to Ahmedabad, there was no cascading num...