Shakira's concert sparks measles outbreak scare: Check a list of most-affected US states, symptoms and vaccineA measles outbreak, the worst in over two decades, is sweeping the US, with Texas as the epicenter. Over 1,000 cases have been confirmed ac...
22 May, 2025, 04.39 PM IST
Measles alert in Auckland: Risks, symptoms, and preventionAuckland is on high alert after a new measles case. Health New Zealand issued urgent warnings. The infected person visited public places, i...
12 May, 2025, 12.17 PM IST
USA is hit by one of the world's most contagious disease. 2 children dead, over 600 cases reported. Check measles symptoms, vaccine, treatmentMeasles symptoms, vaccine, treatment related details are here as the disease is rapidly spreading the United States.
07 Apr, 2025, 02.41 AM IST
Second child died from measles-related causes in West Texas, where cases are nearing 500A second unvaccinated child in West Texas has died from a measles-related illness, as the outbreak spreads to neighboring states and Mexico...
06 Apr, 2025, 09.18 PM IST
Measles outbreak in Texas: 146 cases reported, one child dead — Are low vaccination rates to blame?Texas is experiencing its largest measles outbreak in nearly 30 years, with 146 confirmed cases and one reported child fatality. The outbre...
28 Feb, 2025, 11.44 PM IST
Texas child dies in measles outbreak, first US fatality in yearsIn Texas, a child has died from measles amidst an outbreak affecting over 130 people, mostly children, with 18 hospitalizations. The US has...
28 Feb, 2025, 07.08 PM IST
Texas measles outbreak claims the life of a child: Here’s how many people have been hospitalisedThe first death has been recorded in the Texas measles outbreak. Till date, 124 people have been infected by the disease, with the maximum ...
27 Feb, 2025, 10.05 AM IST
Measles Outbreak in US: Texas reports first death in a decade as unvaccinated child diesA child in West Texas has died from measles, the first U.S. fatality from the virus since 2015. The outbreak, centred in the Mennonite comm...
27 Feb, 2025, 09.51 AM IST
From 27.3 lakh in 2021, India's zero-dose kids drop to about 16 lakh in 2023: Unicef & WHOIndia ranked second globally in 2023 for children not receiving vaccines. Efforts needed to identify and immunize unvaccinated children. WH...
16 Jul, 2024, 04.20 PM IST
Yemen war has killed or maimed over 11,000 children: UNYemen's war broke out in 2014 and quickly saw Iran-backed Huthi rebels seize the capital Sanaa, prompting Saudi-led forces to intervene to ...
12 Dec, 2022, 08.18 AM IST
Record number of children miss measles vaccine: Global reportWHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus noted the irony in the fact that while vaccines against Covid were developed and deployed in record ti...
24 Nov, 2022, 01.02 PM IST
7 suspected measles deaths, 164 cases reported in Mumbai since Sept: BMCThe number of suspected measles cases in Mumbai rose to 1,263 after 184 new cases with symptoms of fever and rashes were reported. 647 of t...
17 Nov, 2022, 10.04 AM IST
Measles outbreak in Mumbai: Toddler dies; 126 children infected with disease so far this yearThe boy, from Null Bazar area, was undergoing treatment at the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation-run Kasturba Hospital in Chinchpokli sinc...
15 Nov, 2022, 11.24 AM IST
One million malnourished Afghan children could face death, says UNICEFEarlier, Filippo Grandi, the UN refugees chief, warned of a potential humanitarian catastrophe, saying that only a third of the funds urgen...
10 Oct, 2021, 05.47 PM IST
- Smallpox may have emerged in more recent times
Toronto, Dec 9 (IANS) Smallpox, a pathogen that caused millions of deaths worldwide, may not be an ancient disease but a much more modern k...
09 Dec, 2016, 06.00 PM IST
After polio, Amitabh Bachchan to lead India's fight against hepatitis B campaignThe health ministry has finalized talks with Bachchan and is set to launch the campaign in April, a senior official in the ministry said.
13 Mar, 2015, 12.30 PM IST
Government's UIP: Pressure from international organizations to include vaccines for other diseasesIn 2010 the government’s Universal Immunization Programme (UIP) consisted of vaccines against six diseases: polio, tuberculosis, measles, d...
01 Sep, 2014, 04.08 PM IST