$30,000 Brooklyn wedding turns into nightmare as bride, groom and guests suffer vomiting, diarrhoea, chills and abdominal cramps after pricey NYC hotel served up norovirus-tainted foodA $30,000 Brooklyn wedding reception reportedly turned into a nightmare after the bride, groom and 30 of 112 guests fell ill with vomiting,...
27 Aug, 2026, 04.04 PM IST
Chikungunya mosquitoes invade US as New York gets first case; Has China-borne pandemic reached America after spreading in Europe?New York State confirmed its first locally acquired Chikungunya case on Long Island, marking the first such instance in the U.S. since 2019...
16 Oct, 2025, 12.09 PM IST
Is China unleashing another pandemic? Chikungunya virus spreads from Guangdong Province to EuropeChikungunya virus cases surged in China's Guangdong Province during summer 2025 before spreading to Europe. France reported 700 cases and I...
15 Oct, 2025, 12.38 PM IST
Chikungunya returns: WHO warns of global risk from mosquito-borne virus epidemicThe World Health Organization has issued a warning about the resurgence of the chikungunya virus, reminiscent of the 2004-2005 epidemic. Or...
23 Jul, 2025, 08.00 AM IST
Forget Covid — Another deadly virus has been detected in the UK for the first time and there's no vaccineThe United Kingdom identifies West Nile Virus in mosquitoes. This discovery raises concerns. The virus is already widespread in Europe. Aut...
21 May, 2025, 05.54 PM IST
Sloth Fever Outbreak: What you need to know about the deadly virus spreading in US & EuropeFlorida has reported its first-ever cases of 'sloth fever', caused by the Oropouche virus, which is primarily spread by small flies and mos...
27 Aug, 2024, 10.59 PM IST
More imported cases of new mpox strain in Europe expected, public health agency saysEurope expects more mpox clade I cases following a new outbreak in Africa, but the general threat remains low. The European Centre for Dise...
17 Aug, 2024, 11.57 PM IST
Do you suspect you might have Covid-19? Then better avoid contact with petsHow easily animals can get and spread the virus might change with different variants.
16 Dec, 2021, 05.32 PM IST
First COVID-19 case may have emerged in China in October 2019: StudyThe research, published in the journal PLOS Pathogens on Thursday, suggests that the first case of COVID-19 arose between early October and...
25 Jun, 2021, 12.30 PM IST
Europe's Covid-19 vaccine rollout 'unacceptably slow', case surge 'worrying': WHO"Vaccines present our best way out of this pandemic... However, the rollout of these vaccines is unacceptably slow" and is "prolonging the ...
01 Apr, 2021, 01.11 PM IST
Deficiency of a particular protein behind corona’s slow Asia spread: StudyA team of scientists from the National Institute of Biomedical Genomics in Kalyani, West Bengal, have found a biological reason for the slo...
09 Feb, 2021, 11.17 AM IST
China shares virus genome data, officials suggest European strainChina, which had been under pressure to make the data public sooner rather than later as Covid-19 cases mount in the country's capital, sai...
19 Jun, 2020, 11.36 PM IST
EU to ease virus travel bans from July 1, but not to allAfter the virus began spreading throughout Europe in March, the EU gradually extended a ban on all nonessential travel into the 27 member c...
11 Jun, 2020, 05.39 PM IST
Europe locks down as global virus panic spreadsEuropean leaders plan to ban all non-essential travel into the continent on Tuesday, the latest drastic attempt to curb the coronavirus pan...
17 Mar, 2020, 01.52 PM IST
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...
01 Mar, 2020, 02.36 PM IST
US crude drops below $50 as virus spreads in Middle East and EuropeBrent crude was down 55 cents, or 1%, to $54.40 a barrel by 1432 GMT, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude was 24 cents, or 0.5%,...
26 Feb, 2020, 09.31 PM IST
UK calls coronavirus "serious" health threat; will detain peopleThe U.K. Department of Health and Social Care said people with the virus can now be forcibly quarantined and will not be free to leave. It ...
10 Feb, 2020, 04.59 PM IST