CDC on High Alert as Bird Flu Cases Rise in the US: Is the H5N1 Virus Showing Pandemic Red Flags?Bird Flu: Bird flu cases are on the rise in the U.S., and the CDC is on high alert. With 66 confirmed human cases so far, officials are wat...
01 Jan, 2025, 06.04 PM IST
Covid-variant waves could be predicted by new AI model: ResearchAnalysing 9 million SARS-CoV-2 genetic sequences across 30 countries from the Global Initiative on Sharing Avian Influenza Data (GISAID), t...
06 Jan, 2024, 03.54 PM IST
H3N2 cases: Tamil Nadu to hold 1,000 fever camps on March 10, says State Health MinisterAfter the detection of H3N2 virus cases, Tamil Nadu Health Minister Ma. Subramanian on Tuesday announced that a mega drive consisting of 10...
07 Mar, 2023, 07.45 PM IST
Ex-AIIMS chief warns: Influenza virus H3N2 can spread like COVID, elderly be carefulFormer AIIMS chief Dr Randeep Guleria said that we seeing more cases of Influenza virus H3N2 because as the virus mutates a little bit, the...
07 Mar, 2023, 04.49 PM IST
What is Influenza B Virus that Debina Bonnerjee is diagnosed with? Know symptoms, and treatment hereDebina Bonnerjee has been diagnosed with Influenza B. Here are the signs, meanings, and remedies.
02 Mar, 2023, 12.16 PM IST
China releases new COVID-19 control protocol, calls for monitoring mutated variantsThe 10th edition of the virus prevention and control protocol has been released in accordance to the decision to downgrade the epidemic man...
08 Jan, 2023, 07.31 AM IST
How the novel coronavirus has evolved and adapted to human hostsMapping and understanding those changes to the virus is crucial to developing strategies to combat the COVID-19 disease it causes.
10 Dec, 2020, 02.08 PM IST
ICMR plans to study whether novel coronavirus strain in India changed formHowever, the study can begin once the lockdown is lifted since currently there are difficulties involved in transportation of samples from ...
02 May, 2020, 04.52 PM IST
Scientist working on flu vaccine that lasts a lifetimeAs New Scientist explains, the flu virus carries big, globular "decoy" proteins on its surface to grab our immune system's attention.
26 Aug, 2015, 01.07 PM IST
Swine-flu toll 1,587; cases reported 27,886: JP NaddaWhile a total of 1,587 deaths have taken place during the period, Rajasthan topped the list with 6,093 number of cases, closely followed by...
17 Mar, 2015, 06.02 PM IST
New swine flu strain in India may carry dangerous mutationsThe researchers found that the recent Indian strains carry new mutations in the hemagglutinin protein that are known to make the virus more...
12 Mar, 2015, 03.47 PM IST
Unless contained, Ebola could become endemic in AfricaBiologists have been sequencing the genome of the virus, and have collected nearly a hundred viruses from patients in the first month itsel...
06 Sep, 2014, 12.37 AM IST
- Avian Flu viruses could evolve in nature
It might be possible for human-tohuman airborne transmissible avian H5N1 inf luenza viruses to evolve in nature, new research has found.
25 Jun, 2012, 01.25 AM IST
- US hauls India to WTO on poultry ban
India claims that the import ban is aimed at preventing avian influenza, but it has not given scientific evidence on avian-influenza contro...
08 Mar, 2012, 04.31 AM IST
- Poultry import curbs to remain for now
India has refused to remove restrictions on import of pork and poultry products imposed last year as a preventive measure against spread of...
10 May, 2010, 03.26 AM IST
- WHO warns complacency on bird flu
The World Health Organisation warned Monday against complacency in the fight against bird flu, saying another human influenza pandemic is i...
10 Sep, 2007, 02.20 PM IST
- India awarded grant to prepare for influenza pandemic
India is among six developing countries who have been awarded grants to establish capacity to manufacture influenza vaccine so that it is r...
25 Apr, 2007, 09.50 AM IST