Epidemic

Rising infections and expanding mosquito habitats signal potential global health threat with over 5.6 billion people living in areas at risk

If the infection is confirmed, it would be the first reported case of HMPV in India

Even as the wrath of the Covid-19 pandemic begins to wade, the horrors of the medical emergency still seem fresh in the memories

The Australian government will ban the import of non-prescription vaping products including non-nicotine devices

In a worst-case scenario, a bird flu type virus that mutates to allow human-to-human transmission could kill as many as 15,000 people in the UK in a single day

"The diseases caused by contaminated food and water, from cholera to other gastroenteritis such as diarrhoea, are our primary concerns," Ertugrul told Xinhua in an interview

Covid-19 will not be the last epidemic or pandemic humanity faces, he warned

Yoga can help prevent cardiovascular diseases that have significantly gone up due to poor lifestyle choices, lack of exercise, wrong diet and increased stress, and may develop into an epidemic in India in the coming decade, according to eminent experts. India will replace all western nations to be the country with the largest number of heart diseases in the coming decade, the American Academy of Yoga and Meditation (AAYM) has warned. AAYM is a non-profit organisation of physicians, scientists, and other academicians who hold regular teaching lessons for physicians to understand and use yoga in clinical practice. With an epidemic of diabetes mellitus and hypertension, India is slated to be the world's cardiovascular disease capital, said the American academy which along with its public platform called the Ganges Mississippi dialogue, is holding an online symposium to highlight how yoga can be used to prevent cardiovascular diseases. These diseases, including heart attack, stroke, ..

Follow the expanding footprint of the coronavirus pandemic across the world in this interactive map built by Johns Hopkins University

British health officials reported another 50 cases of monkeypox across the country on Friday, for a total of 574 cases. That makes the U.K.'s outbreak the biggest to date beyond Africa

The United States has announced a funding of $122 million to top three Indian medical research institutions to prevent avoidable epidemics, early detection of disease threats

First identified in monkeys, the disease typically spreads through close contact and has rarely spread outside Africa, so this series of cases has triggered concern.

Domestically produced variant-proof jabs are part of a global project to develop vaccines for future epidemics

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Covid-19's dreadful journey started from China as an epidemic, before it turned into a pandemic. Now, the third wave is likely to become endemic here. So, what is the difference between these terms?

The notification makes it compulsory for all hospitals to provide information to the government about any such case that they receive.

A coronavirus epidemic broke out in the East Asia region more than 20,000 years ago, similar to the current Covid-19 pandemic, an international study of human genomes has discovered.

Putting out an official notification, the Delhi government on Thursday declared Mucormycosis an epidemic

Odisha government on Thursday declared Mucormycosis (Black Fungus) as a notifiable disease under the Epidemic Diseases Act 1897

A set of graphics tracking how the number of coronavirus positive cases have moved on a daily basis since India's total touched 100 on March 15