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Pakistan: Nearly 3,000 typhoid cases in Karachi year-to-date

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By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 Karachi, Pakistan health officials are reporting 2,982 typhoid cases in the city through May 14, according to a Pakistan Today report. Of this total, 1765 are typhoid/paratyphoid...

Third Naegleria fowleri case reported in Karachi

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Pakistani news media are reporting an additional case of Naegleria fowleri infection in Karachi. A 34-year old man was infected with the lethal parasite and is struggling for life at a private hospital...

Pakistan records 4 additional polio cases, WPV1 detected in environmental sample from Iran

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Pakistan reported four additional wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases in the past week. The cases were reported from Bannu district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province (2); one from North Waziristan district...

Leptospirosis cases up in Sri Lanka

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The number of cases of the bacterial infection, leptospirosis are up year-to-date in Sri Lanka, according to official data. From January 1 through April 30, the Epidemiology Unit of the Ministry of Health...

Pakistan reports three more polio cases, Inactivated polio vaccine now introduced worldwide

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Three additional wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases were reported in Pakistan during the last week, according to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. Cases were confirmed in Lahore district in Punjab...

Three wild poliovirus cases reported in past week, 15 total cases in 2019 to date

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Officials with the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) reported three additional wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases from Afghanistan and Pakistan, bringing the total for 2019 to date to 15. In...

Dengue fever: Sri Lanka update, Philippines Congressman calls out Dengvaxia blunder

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Sri Lanka Sri Lanka health officials report that there has been 15641 dengue fever cases reported in the first quarter of 2019. This is down from nearly 18000 cases reported during the same period lats...

Polio in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Nigeria closes in on polio-free status

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New cases There was a number of wild poliovirus and circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus cases reported this past week, according to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI). In Afghanistan, three...

Sri Lanka dengue cases near 14k year-to-date, Expert warns of DEN-3

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Sri Lanka health officials have reported nearly 14,000 dengue through Apr. 18. The health districts accounting for the most of the 13,975 cases to date include Colombo (3126), Gampaha (1748) and Jaffna...

Pakistan polio worker killed, WHO condemnation

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It was recently reported that a polio worker in Pakistan was shot and killed while he was supporting polio eradication and immunization efforts in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan. The victim has...