India is enhancing its readiness for Ebola. The Union Health Ministry has directed states to boost surveillance and hospital preparedness. ...

India is closely watching the Ebola virus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda. The nation is enhancing its surveillance...

Hantavirus cases linked to a cruise ship with Indian nationals have sparked concerns, but experts declare these infections are confined to ...

The DGHS issued an advisory on rational cough syrup use for children following deaths in Madhya Pradesh. Investigations found no DEG/EG in ...

India can now swiftly detect the Nipah virus with a newly developed portable test kit by the National Institute of Virology (NIV). This poi...

Maharashtra has reported over 100 cases of Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS), leading to investigations by the Indian Council of Medical Resear...

A high-level team has been sent to Pune by the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to address the surge in Guillain Barre Syndrome ...

A five-year-old boy from Venkatapuram village in Nellore district, Andhra Pradesh, is suspected of having the Zika virus. His blood sample ...

India's Covid-19 advisory group is hopeful that by next week NIV would be able to culture the virus and may know how the existing vaccines ...

She said there are chances of an increase in the number of contacts as the parents have taken the child to a clinic first, then to a privat...

Of the 19 samples sent from Thiruvananthapuram, 13 health workers, including doctors, are suspected to be positive for Zika, the minister s...

The vaccine will be developed using the virus strain isolated at the ICMR's National Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune, a statement said. T...

For the first time, two positive cases of the novel coronavirus, one of them a woman, were detected in Gujarat, said officials on Thursday ...

Of these three facilities, the Pune-based National Institute of Virology (NIV) is a global referral laboratory, which gets samples even fro...

She had tested positive for the virus on her return from Wuhan in China recently and been undergoing treatment in the isolation ward of a g...

Under the agreement, Sun Pharma will provide drug molecules to NIV for testing against zika, chikungunya and dengue in model systems, the c...

Singh admitted that even though the virus spreads through Aedes Aegypti mosquito, which is endemic to Ahmedabad, there was no cascading num...