The Covid- 19 pandemic has proven one thing: that in the hard-nosed world of vaccine politics and big business pharmaceuticals, ‘charity’ and ‘goodwill’ take a back-seat. This week, the WHO announced the global milestone of having produced vaccines for 10 billion people worldwide against the covid virus. When French President Emmanuel Macron took the Covid-19 […]
PATNA: While local news channels are occupied with political news, Bihar braces itself for the corona virus challenge .’Transit points’ in districts near the Nepal border are being monitored. As many as 108 passengers, who returned from coronavirus-affected countries after January 15 have been placed under home quarantine till date, says an official press release. […]
The World Health Organization (WHO) on February 4, 2020 announced that the Corona Virus disease has not yet become pandemic. The disease has so far killed 425 people and has infected more than 20,000. Hong Kong recently reported death due to the virus. It is the first country outside China to report death. According to […]
Every Indian family will have at least one family member with cancer. Bleak times ahead, says WHO. But India loves its khaini, tumbakoo, and areca nut … One in 10 Indians will develop cancer during their lifetime, and one in 15 Indians will die of cancer, according to a latest World Health Organization (WHO) report. […]
A 16 year old boy in Madhya Pradesh died of a heart attack while playing the popular game Player Unknown Battlegrounds known as PUBG for six hours straight, according to news reports. He was a swimmer and had no heart complaints. Gaming disorder struck this teenager down. The decreased, identified as Furkhan Qureshi, was a […]
Italian children have been told not to turn up to school unless they can prove they have been properly vaccinated. Parents risk being fined up to €500 (more than 39,000 Indian rupees) if they send their unvaccinated children to school. Children under six can be turned away. Under Italy’s ‘Lorenzin law’ – named after the […]
The state health department announced recruitment of 3,100 doctors through the Bihar Technical Commission (BTC) without candidates having to appear in any written test or interview. Health minister Mangal Pandey defended the government’s decision not to have any written test for appointment of doctors when asked if the government was compromising on quality and competence […]
Bihar rolled out its latest weapon in the battle to save infants’ lives. A new vaccine has been added to the routine immunization programme, one that prevents pneumonia. Bihar which is a pneumonia endemic region, is one of three focus states in the National campaign against pneumonia. The PCV vaccine has been proved to be […]
Watch out India! Zika infections are “highly likely” to keep spreading across Asia, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned. Hundreds of cases of the virus have been reported in Singapore while two cases of Zika-linked microcephaly have already been confirmed in Thailand. The mosquito-borne virus has been detected in 70 countries worldwide, at least 19 […]
Sri Lanka is ‘Malaria Free. ’ Experts and authorities attribute Sri Lanka’s success in eliminating malaria from the island to a concerted effort by multiple programmes acting in concert with a robust national healthcare system. The fight against malaria took 25 years. Hemantha Herath, deputy director of Sri Lanka’s anti malaria campaign, says that case […]
When the Zika Virus packs its bag and begins travelling, India is among the most likely places the dreaded virus will visit, say researchers. The most vulnerable areas are China, the Philippines, Indonesia, Nigeria, Vietnam, Pakistan and Bangladesh, says the research. Scientists trying to predict the future path of Zika say that 2.6 billion people […]
BHUBANESWAR: Leprosy is on the rise in Orissa! The number of leprosy patients has risen in the state since 2006.The irony is that in 2006-2007, the sate government had declared Orissa (Odisha) leprosy free! Now, it is estimated that about 3 in 20,000 people here have the dreaded disease. State Leprosy Welfare Federation president Duryodhan […]
