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One daily habit, multiple diseases avoided: Doctors advice doing this routine properly as wrong method can be harmfulA simple daily habit like handwashing continues to play a major role in preventing multiple infections, even in today’s advanced medical wo...- Deadly ‘flesh-eating’ bacteria with 20% mortality risk detected in Long Island: Symptoms, spread, treatment and preventionScientists have detected the potentially deadly "flesh-eating" bacteria, Vibrio vulnificus, in Long Island waters, posing a significant ris...
- 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...
- 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 ...
- Explainer-How climate change is making the world sickGovernment ministers at COP28 discuss protecting people from climate-driven health threats, including malnutrition, as experts predict a gl...
- Delhi govt issues advisory on water-borne diseasesCautioning that there is an increased risk of contracting water-borne diseases such as diarrhoea, dysentery and cholera in the rainy season...
- 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...
- We've run out of cholera vaccines, WHO official says as disease surgesThe U.N. health agency says global fatality rates are rising and there are around 30 countries around the world that have reported cholera ...
- WHO cautions world, seeks help over deplorable condition in drought-prone Horn of Africa. Read details hereWorld Health Organization has looked to bring attention of the world towards a deepening crisis in the disease-prone Somali peninsula. The ...
- Parks & recreation: Pandemic opens up spaces for dates, exercise and social gatheringsThe park often offers us not just safety from infection but also a sense of community, a rare combination these days.
- New testing labs to help check spread of coronavirus in UP, Maharashtra, West Bengal: Amit ShahExpressing gratitude to the prime minister for launching the "high throughput COVID-19 testing labs", Shah said these hi-tech facilities wi...
- Pandemic halts vaccination for nearly 80 million childrenUNICEF reported a significant delay in planned vaccine deliveries due to lockdown measures and a dramatic reduction in the number of availa...
- The 123-year-old law that India may invoke to counter coronavirusFollowing the World Health Organisation's far-reaching announcement, the Union cabinet secretary yesterday said all states and Union Territ...
- Recalling history's 10 deadliest diseases that came before the coronavirusBefore the coronavirus, the human race has had to deal with various epidemics and pandemics across the centuries. Many of them have claimed...
- Coronavirus scare: 6 under home quarantine in MizoramBlood samples of two among the six have been sent to the National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases (NICED) in Kolkata for test, th...
- Delhi weather helps the NDM-1 superbug thriveThe rate at which the NDM-1 gene is copied and transferred between different bacteria was highest at 30°C - a temperature common in Delhi.
- Drug resistant superbug retains Delhi tagNaming the drug resistant superbug New Delhi Metallo Beta Lactamase-I (NDM-1 ) after India's capital city was 'a big mistake' admitted Lanc...
- World cannot pay for Pakistan flood disaster: US envoyThe outside world cannot foot the entire bill for Pakistan's recovery from devastating floods and the Pakistani government must do more, US...
- Epidemic fear grips Leh as gastro cases begin piling upDoctors have reported a steady rise in the cases of gastroenteritis due to contaminated drinking water.
- WHO warns of epidemic in IraqWith over 7,000 cases of acute diarrhoea have so far been reported in northern Iraq, a UN health agency has said that there was an urgent n...
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