Tokyo, May 25 (IANS) At least one person was taken to a hospital and around 20 people reported feeling ill on Monday after a man allegedly sprayed a substance at a shopping complex in the Ginza district of Tokyo, local...
Geneva, May 25 (IANS) World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that as the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) scales up surveillance in its Ebola response, more than 900 suspected cases have been identified so far, including...
Dhaka, May 24 (IANS) A total of 16 more children have died from measles-like symptoms in Bangladesh in the 24 hours till 8 a.m. on Sunday, raising the death toll since March 15 to 528, local media reported. With the...
Amaravati, May 24 (IANS) Andhra Pradesh continues to reel under the heat wave as Chityala in East Godavari district on Sunday recorded a maximum temperature of 48.3 degrees Celsius, the highest this season.According to the State Disaster Management Authority (SDMA),...
Ouagadoudou, May 24 (IANS) The central African nation of Burkina Faso has strengthened preventive measures against Ebola virus disease, with health authorities stressing that no cases have been recorded in the country so far.The Ministry of Health, in a statement,...
New Delhi, May 24 (IANS) Orthopaedic experts on Sunday raised concerns over a sharp rise in hip arthritis and avascular necrosis (AVN) cases among younger and middle-aged Indians in the post-COVID period, warning that severe hip damage linked to steroid...
Dhaka, May 23 (IANS) At least 13 more people have died from measles and measles-like symptoms in Bangladesh on Saturday, taking the total number of confirmed and suspected deaths to 512, local media reported.According to the Directorate General of Health...
Male, May 23 (IANS) The rising mpox cases have exposed weaknesses in Pakistan’s healthcare system, raising concerns about the capacity of existing public health mechanisms to respond effectively, a report has said.“Public health crisis seldom arrive with spectacle. They emerge...
Kampala, May 23 (IANS) Uganda on Saturday confirmed three more new Ebola cases, raising the total number of infections in the country to five.The country's Ministry of Health updated that a Ugandan driver who transported the first confirmed case, a...
Geneva, May 23 (IANS) UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Tom Fletcher, has said that he is allocating up to $60 million from the world body's Central Emergency Response Fund to accelerate the response to the Ebola...
Washington, May 23 (IANS) Tulsi Gabbard, the US Director of National Intelligence, on Friday resigned from her position, citing her husband's ill-health."I am deeply grateful for the trust President Trump placed in me and for the opportunity to lead Office...
Addis Ababa, May 22 (IANS) The public health risk from the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been upgraded from high to very high, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday. "We are revising our risk...