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...
16 May, 2026, 10.51 PM IST
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...
11 May, 2026, 06.36 AM IST
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...
10 May, 2026, 01.59 PM IST
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 ...
09 May, 2026, 06.32 AM IST
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...
08 May, 2026, 11.18 AM IST
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...
07 May, 2026, 10.09 PM IST
HMPV not novel, outbreak unlikely to escalate into pandemic: Top epidemiologistEpidemiologist Dr Raman R Gangakhedkar said between 2016-2018 the National Institute of Virology (NIV) enrolled about 16,000 patients of wh...
07 Jan, 2025, 11.23 PM IST
Epidemiologist sounds alarm on COVID-19 situation in China, calls it 'thermonuclear bad'The epidemiologist estimates that more than 60% of China and 10% of Earth's population are likely to be infected over the next 90 days with...
21 Dec, 2022, 11.47 AM IST
Long Covid: Over 144 million people suffered globally"The study suggests that a high proportion of persons, including young adults (20-29 years), suffer from a cluster of symptoms for a longer...
17 Jun, 2022, 09.21 AM IST
Indian variant's transmissibility edge might be smaller than feared, UK expert says"There's... a glimmer of hope from the recent data that, whilst this variant does still appear to have a significant growth advantage, the ...
19 May, 2021, 01.29 PM IST
Auto-disable syringes are the best option to prevent reuse: HS Ratti, epidemiologist"Companies making these syringes have large capacities. They should be able to supply the desired quantity. There are regular training prog...
30 Nov, 2020, 12.11 PM IST
ICMR's chief epidemiologist retires, sources say will continue to advise govt in Covid-19 policy decisionsA public health expert in communicable disease, Raman Gangakhedkar was instrumental in the prevention and control measures of the HIV epide...
30 Jun, 2020, 08.35 PM IST
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...
10 Jun, 2020, 08.24 AM IST
Sweden should have done more against coronavirus but broad strategy right: Chief epidemiologistAnders Tegnell told Swedish radio in a morning interview that Sweden, which research group Ourworldindata.org says has the eighth highest n...
03 Jun, 2020, 08.22 PM IST
Covid-19: Govt to rush medics to 'critical states'The central government is rushing a team of experts consisting of doctors, epidemiologists, microbiologists to 'critical states' which are ...
10 Apr, 2020, 08.54 AM IST
Anand Mahindra to offer 100% salary to deal with coronavirusMahindra on Sunday tweeted that going by various reports from epidemiologists, it is highly likely that India is already in stage 3 of tran...
22 Mar, 2020, 02.51 PM IST
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...
11 Feb, 2020, 06.04 PM IST