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Pennsylvania's MMR vaccination rate fell below 95%. Now two residents have died from measlesPennsylvania is facing its first measles fatalities in thirty-five years due to a rise in cases statewide, primarily affecting unvaccinated...- World's most contagious disease detected in California wastewater: Key signs of virus and symptoms you should watchMeasles outbreak: California health officials are alarmed by the detection of measles in wastewater, coinciding with the state's worst outb...
- Hantavirus requires prolonged close contact for transmission unlike Covid: Soumya SwaminathanFormer WHO chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan believes the Hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship is containable. The virus requires prolonge...
- Measles cases in Europe, Central Asia drop 75% in 2025, but outbreak risk lingers, agencies sayMeasles cases in Europe and Central Asia saw a significant drop of 75% in 2025 compared to the previous year, as per agencies. Preliminary ...
- A contagious virus is spreading through the US, detected at Newark and Boston airports amid record holiday travel, officials urge vaccinationMeasles cases are confirmed at Newark Liberty International Airport and Boston Logan International Airport. This is happening during a busy...
- Covid-19 rebound on cards? Chinese authorities issue big warning amid national holiday season as China expects rise in cases of respiratory diseasesChina issues a health warning for its upcoming eight-day holiday. Authorities anticipate increased COVID-19 and respiratory illness transmi...
- Confirmed measles outbreak in South Carolina — eight unvaccinated cases spark health emergency: Is this turning into a COVID-like public health crisis?South Carolina health officials have confirmed a measles outbreak in the Upstate region. Residents are urged to check vaccination status an...
- The US is having its worst year for measles in more than three decadesThe U.S. is grappling with its worst measles outbreak in over three decades, with over 1,288 cases reported this year. Public health offici...
- Manitoba becomes ground zero in Canada's measles crisis; Symptoms and treatmentManitoba faces a significant measles outbreak. Sixty cases are confirmed. The disease spreads rapidly. Canada reports over a thousand cases...
- North America's measles crisis deepens as outbreaks surge in Canada, MexicoCanada and Mexico are battling significant measles outbreaks amid a broader resurgence across North America. Canada has reported over 730 c...
- 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...
- Fears of US public health crises grow amid falling vaccination ratesUS experts are warning of a potential public health crisis due to declining vaccination rates and outbreaks of previously controlled childh...
- Worrying vaccination gaps come to notice after post-Covid measles spurt forces a data relookA relook at the survey data was necessitated by instances of repeated measles outbreaks after the COVID-19 pandemic, the report by (by Rema...
- 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...
- Covid far from becoming endemic: WHOWHO emergencies director Michael Ryan said it was also wrong to think that if Covid-19 did settle down and become endemic, that would mean ...
- Google celebrates Japanese virologist Dr Michiaki Takahashi's 94th birth anniversary with a doodleTakahashi developed the first vaccine against chickenpox.
- Coronavirus: Scientists from 4 BRICS nations to carry out genomic sequencing, mathematical modellingA whole-genome sequencing is required for the identification of genetic mutations and recombinations of the virus, while epidemiological st...
- Delta variant may be as infectious as chickenpox, cause more severe infection, shows studyDelta is more transmissible than the virus that cause the common cold.
- Over one lakh new HIV cases reported in China in 2014China has reported 104,000 new HIV/AIDS infections in 2014, up 14.8 per cent from the previous year- Central health authority
- Africa, Bangladesh better than India in immunisation: Bill GatesIndia’s inability to stamp out polio has raised serious fears that the virus causing the crippling disease might never be eradicated.
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