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In the first five months of 2024, 7,599 children and adults have been infected by the disease, which affects the lungs and respiratory tract and spreads easily, according to figures published on Thursday, the Xinhua news agency reported."Young babies are at the highest risk of serious...

Speaking of women's health, she cited her father's poignant observation: When a mother dies, it is counted as a hospital death, but to the family, the mother is lost forever.Prime Minister Modi expressed his gratitude to Sudha Murty for her extensive discussion on women's health and...

PESHAWAR: Two Pakistani police officers were injured on Wednesday when unidentified gunmen opened fire on anti-polio vaccination teams in two separate incidents in the country's restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Police said.Police said the incidents took place in Tank and Dera Ismail Khan...

New Delhi: Philanthropist and author Sudha Murty on Tuesday pushed for a government-sponsored vaccination program to combat cervical cancer.In her maiden speech in Rajya Sabha, she also advocated promoting domestic tourism.Murty was nominated by the president to the upper house on the eve of...

Deputy Chief Minister Rajendra Shukla on Saturday said 27,371 polio booths have been set up across the state to conduct the campaign, while more than 1,000 transit teams will conduct the vaccination drive in remote areas.Additionally, for high-risk and migrant areas, around 6,500 mobile teams...

Nine environmental samples collected between June 3 and June 4 from Quetta, Chaman and Pishin districts of south-west Balochistan province, Hyderabad, Mirpur Khas and Karachi Kemari districts of southern Sindh province and Peshawar district of north-west Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Tested...

Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], Director of Public Health, Odisha Neelkanth Mishra on Wednesday said that 5 deaths and 18 suspected cases of diphtheria have been detected in Odisha.He also said that diphtheria vaccination has started from Wednesday.Odisha Public Health Director Neelkanth...

Using data from December 2019 to January 2023, the study published in the journal BMJ Global Health evaluated evidence from global studies to determine whether Covid vaccination was effective for pregnant women who were less likely to contract the disease than the virus. were at greater risk...

New Delhi: Expanding Ayushman Bharat coverage to all above 70 years of age and launching U-WIN portal across India to digitalize routine vaccinations for the Union Health Ministry in the 100-day term of Narendra Modi's new government. One of the highlights of the agenda.In a brief interaction...

PESHAWAR: At least 15 policemen guarding polio vaccinators were killed and 36 others injured by terrorists in similar attacks during an anti-polio campaign in Pakistan's restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province by May this year, according to official data. Went.Terrorists in Pakistan often target...

Quetta (Balochistan) [Pakistan], The confirmation of the fifth polio case this year in Quetta, Balochistan, has raised concerns about surveillance lapses and the possibility of increased transmission during a critical phase of the polio eradication campaign, Dawn reports.The case, which...

Many vaccine misinformation on Facebook were downplayed after being flagged and declared false by third-party fact-checkers.However, a team of researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Pennsylvania in the US showed that "blatant misinformation was not...

ISLAMABAD [Pakistan], The presence of wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) has been confirmed in sewage samples collected from two districts of Balochistan and one district of Sindh in Pakistan, Dawn reported, according to the National Institutes of Health. Sewage samples taken from Quetta, Chaman and...

The health department of Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh has decided to take all precautionary measures to prevent the spread of rabies in the state.Four suspected rabies deaths have been reported this year in the northeastern state.State Health Services (DHS) Director Dr Ricken Reena called a...

A large outbreak of pertussis (commonly known as whooping cough) continues in Southampton, UK since early 2024. There have been 2,793 confirmed cases so far this year. Sadly, five infants have been confirmed to have died due to whooping cough, with unconfirmed reports suggesting a sixth may have...

The study presented at Heart Failure 2024, a scientific conference of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), used the Korean National Health Insurance Service database to obtain information about vaccination and clinical outcomes.Participants who received two or more doses of a COVID-19...

New Delhi: Nearly 12 per cent of children eligible for measles vaccination in India have not received any of the recommended double doses, indicating a "concerning gap" in vaccination coverage, a new study has found.The findings showed that zero-dose cases were higher in northeastern states...

Rotavirus is mainly responsible for diarrhea in infants and young children. The vaccine, which contains a weakened form of the virus that produces a stronger immune response, is administered through drops.Preterm infants, usually kept in NICUs, are at higher risk of the highly contagious but...

Cambridge [United Kingdom], In light of recent concerns about possible rare side effects of the AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 vaccine, the Pharmaceutica giant has reiterated its commitment to patient safety while emphasizing the overall safety profile of the vaccine. . An AstraZeneca spokesperson...

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), at least 154 million lives have been saved by vaccination efforts worldwide over the past 50 years.“On the occasion of World Immunization Week, let us all take a pledge to ensure that everyone gets appropriate vaccination as needed. Vaccination...