The World Health Organisation has recently said the current outbreak of the Chandipura virus in India is the largest in 20 years. Image used for representational purpose only. Photograph: ANI......
There are currently no reported cases of Monkeypox in India even though cautionary measures will be put in place to prevent and control the spread of the disease, the Union health ministry said on......
The lights above washing the hospital corridor with a dim glow, a frantic Jenpu Rongmei rushed to see his 12-year-old nephew Nina who had been admitted the night before with fever and body ache. He......
The outbreak of chikungunya, claiming 86 lives in Alappuzha and other parts of Kerala, has exposed the weaknesses of the public health care system in the state, which used to boast about it for......
Russia's Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19 has shown 91.6 per cent efficacy in the phase 3 trial without any serious side effects, according to an interim analysis of data published in The Lancet......
The Centre has issued an advisory to states to speed up the preventive vaccination process. IMAGE: A veterinarian administers vaccine to a cow to prevent lumpy skin disease, at a cow shelter in......
Swine flu was first reported in Mexico, SARS and bird flu in China, but India surprisingly escaped being ground zero for any. China: SARS in 2002-2003 and bird flu in 1996, both in the southern......