Tag: infectious diseases
Congo starts Ebola vaccination drive; 200,000 covered
Grappling with one of the worst outbreaks, Congo has started an Ebola vaccination drive
Congolese authorities and health workers vaccinated more than 200,000 people against...
TB rates down in the US, but huge racial disparities still...
Study finds that incidence of TB in the United States has gone down but some ethnic and racial groups are more prone to the...
New method to accurately identify nontuberculous mycobacteria
New method can accurately identify nontuberculous mycobacteria, allowing faster implementation of focussed treatment
The bacterial group Mycobacterium is responsible for two of the best-known long-standing...
Actiphage, a new blood test, can identify people at risk of...
New blood test called Actiphage can identify people with latent TB infection at risk of developing the disease
A new blood test called Actiphage has...
Some Nipah patients more likely to transmit the virus than others
Nipah virus study concludes that older male patients and those with respiratory problems are more likely to transmit the infection to other people
Human to...
Between 2010-17, 2.9 mn Indian kids missed out on measles vaccine
UNICEF estimates that 169 million children, of them, 2.9 million in India, missed out on the first dose of the measles vaccine between 2010...
Hotels, homestays can give you drug resistant bacteria to carry home
Study presented at ECCMID warns that a hotel or a private accommodation like a homestay is associated with higher risk of exposure to a...
Climate change, air travel widening horizons of dengue, chikungunya
Vector-borne diseases such as chikungunya, dengue fever, leishmaniasis, and tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) are spreading their wings, literally.
New research presented at this year's European Congress...
Infectious diseases kill 20 times more kids in India than in...
Most deaths of children aged 5-14 in India are from communicable diseases such as pneumonia, tuberculosis and vaccine-preventable diseases, says The Lancet
Most deaths of...
Measles outbreak in the US is a vaccine hesitancy red flag
Measles outbreak reported in Clark County, Washington with 22 confirmed cases and 3 suspected cases
The news of outbreak of measles in the US comes...
