By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Today, India became the fourth country to top a half million COVID-19 cases. The India Ministry of Health puts the total at 508,953, which includes nearly 300,000 recoveries...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews India has the highest TB burden in the world and India’s Ministry of Health and Family Welfare recently released the India TB report 2020 that showed over 24.04...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The India Ministry of Health remains fourth in the world with COVID-19 cases with 425,282 total cases after reporting 14,821 new cases registered June 22, India’s...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The number of wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) reported globally so far in 2020 is now 67 as Afghanistan and Pakistan report additional cases this week. In Afghanistan,...

The number of human tuberculosis (TB) cases that are due to transmission from animals, as opposed to human-to-human transmission, may be much higher than previously estimated, according to an international...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews India’s Ministry of Health reported 11,458 new COVID-19 infections Saturday, a daily record in the country, bringing the outbreak total to 308,992. This has...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews India’s Ministry of Health saw 9,887 new COVID-19 cases during the past 24 hours, the largest one day spike so far, bringing the country case tally to more than...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The COVID-19 outbreak in Pakistan increased by 3,039 new cases and 88 deaths in the last 24 hours, bringing the country totals to 69,496 cases and 1483 deaths through...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Health officials in Karachi, Pakistan report two human rabies cases in the past three days, bringing the total to seven this year. The most recent fatal case was...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews There were eight additional wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases reported during the past week–six in Afghanistan and two in Pakistan. Globally, 54 WPV-1 cases...