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A new and  highly contagious strain of monkeypox is spreading globally, affecting countries where it was previously unknown. But there's hope. The first diagnostic test for monkeypox is now available. World’s first mpox diagnostic test was…

Rwanda: A rapidly spreading outbreak of the Marburg virus has infected over 300 people and took eight lives in Rwanda. According to sources, presently there are no autorised vaccine or treatment available for the rapidly spreading virus.…

New Delhi: The World Health Organization (WHO) launched a six-month global strategic preparedness and response plan on Monday to stop the deadly outbreak of Mpox, which was declared a public health emergency. The plan aims to curtail…

New-Delhi: The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday has declared mpox a global public health emergency for the second time in two years. This decision follows a severe outbreak of the viral infection in the Democratic Republic of…

New-Delhi: The World Health Organization (WHO) said that alcohol kills nearly three million people annually. The United Nations health agency’s latest re­port on alcohol and health said alcohol causes nearly one in 20 deaths globally…

New Delhi: Saima Wazed, daughter of Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina, has been appointed as the Regional Director for the South-East Asia region of the World Health Organisation (WHO). The Executive Board of WHO in Geneva, Switzerland confirmed…

China has now reported a mysterious pneumonia outbreak that appears mostly to be affecting children which has caused a major concern among the global health experts. The WHO made “an official request for detailed information on an…

New Delhi: The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Tuesday recommended the use of a low-cost and highly effective malaria vaccine developed by the Pune-based Serum Institute of India (SII) in collaboration with the University of Oxford in…

Global health experts have raised concerns about the possibility of even more devastating pandemics in the future. Date Kate Bingham, who chaired the UK’s vaccine taskforce, delivered a sombre warning, suggesting that the next pandemic…

New Delhi:  The World Health Organization (WHO) designated new EG.5 as the coronavirus variant of interest. In a post shared on social media platform X (formerly Twitter) WHO mentioned that formerly a variant under monitoring, WHO has now…