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Ebola cases increase almost 40% in week as death toll passes 200An Ebola outbreak in Congo and Uganda has claimed over 200 lives. This is the worst outbreak at this stage, with thousands of potential con...- What to know about the outbreak of a rare kind of Ebola as cases outpace responseA rare Ebola outbreak is spreading rapidly in Congo and Uganda. The Bundibugyo virus has no approved treatments. Health workers face challe...
- What to know about the Bundibugyo virus, a species of Ebola causing an outbreak in CongoA rare Bundibugyo virus outbreak in Congo, with over 200 deaths, lacks specific treatments or vaccines, complicating response efforts. Whil...
- FDA drug center head fired after commissioner's exit, replaced by DavisThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration's drug center sees a leadership change as acting head Tracy Beth Hoeg departs, replaced by deputy Mic...
- Passengers evacuated from hantavirus-stricken cruise ship begin flying home from Canary IslandsPassengers from the hantavirus-hit cruise ship MV Hondius are flying home from Tenerife. They are being evacuated by military and governmen...
- Hantavirus in India? Health Ministry activates precautionary surveillance measures; check what is Andes virus, signs, symptoms and prevention tipsHantavirus update: India has heightened surveillance for Hantavirus following an outbreak on the cruise ship MV Hondius, which reported eig...
- Hantavirus CDC: Infected US passengers aboard cruise ship MV Hondius to be brought to this location. Details hereHantavirus is usually spread by rodents, but in rare cases can be transmitted person-to-person. The CDC said on Friday it would distribute ...
- Two Indians part of crew of luxury cruise ship that reported hantavirus outbreakA hantavirus outbreak has been reported on the Dutch vessel MV Hondius, with five confirmed cases and three deaths, including two Indian na...
- Hantavirus cruise ship outbreak: What is Andes strain? Symptoms, mortality rate, treatment, vaccines and all details you need to knowHantavirus Andes strain update: A deadly Andes strain hantavirus outbreak linked to the MV Hondius cruise ship has resulted in three deaths...
- HMPV in China seasonal in nature, nothing new: WHOThe WHO has assured that the spread of human metapneumovirus in China is not alarming. Current hospital utilization rates are lower than la...
- Chickenpox vaccination nearly eradicates illness's mortality, says CDC reportThe country's high vaccination coverage for chickenpox has resulted in a huge drop in cases, from 4 million per year to roughly 150,000.
- WHO epidemiologist warns against more transmissible COVID variantsKerkhove said there has been a 15% rise in COVID cases and a 35% jump in deaths in the last four weeks globally. She said that the cases wo...
- No shot, no serve, no-vax DjokovicThe Djoker was all set to play the Australian Open, which he incidentally won last year. Then Australian authorities refused to play game. ...
- Raman Gangakhedkar among WHO's scientific advisory group for origins of novel pathogensThe SAGO will advise WHO on the development of a global framework to define and guide studies into the origins of emerging and re-emerging ...
- India's COVID-19 'human barricade' to keep cases under control, say expertsCases that were rising by nearly 100,000 a day in September are now growing at just 10,000 a day. And India's official number of total infe...
- New variant of coronavirus circulating in UK unlikely to affect India’s vaccine strategy: ExpertsThe new variant of coronavirus circulating in the UK is unlikely to impact India’s vaccine strategy as the shots being developed are expect...
- Sero survey findings not shared with ICMR’s panel: DCS Reddy“The findings of the data have not been shared with the ICMR epidemiology and surveillance working group as yet,” DCS Reddy, chairman of th...
- India should now shift focus from number of cases to mortality curve: ExpertsThe number of new Covid-19 cases is still rising though rate of recovery has improved to 47 per cent, from 42 per cent a week ago. Leading ...
- Govt didn't take expert advice before imposing lockdown?Top public health experts, in a letter to the PM, call the two-month lockdown as “draconian.”
- Coronavirus outbreak may be over in China by April: ExpertIn an interview with Reuters, Zhong Nanshan, an 83-year-old epidemiologist who won fame for combating the SARS epidemic in 2003, shed tears...
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