NewsDesk @bactiman63 A three-year-old child was paralyzed by polio in Bannu, the Pakistan National Polio Laboratory confirmed on Thursday. “Since early last year, all polio cases have been from the...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 Health authorities in Bangladesh have reported three additional Nipah virus cases, including two additional deaths, according to a recent report. This is up from 11 cases and 8 deaths...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently issued a travel notice for Bangladesh. There is an outbreak of Nipah virus disease in seven districts (Rajshahi, Naogaon,...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 In a follow-up on the Nipah virus cases reported in Bangladesh in 2023, since 4 January 2023 and as of 13 February 2023, 11 cases (10 confirmed and one probable) including eight deaths...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 In a follow-up on the Nipah virus situation in Bangladesh in 2023 to date, the Institute of Epidemiology Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) in an update today reports the case tally...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 Chickenpox in Kolkata A single hospital in the city has reported 26 deaths from from chickenpox over the last three months, the highly unusual spurt in fatalities causing concern...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 In a follow-up on the Nipah virus situation in Bangladesh in 2023, the Institute of Epidemiology Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) is now reporting nine Nipah infections since...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 The Bangladesh Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Zahid Maleque, announced that Nipah virus cases in the country have risen to eight, including five fatalities, according to a...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 Recently, a novel finding by icddr,b (formerly known as the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh) scientists, and partners published in the journal of...

NewsDesk @bactiman63 Pakistan’s first detection of wild poliovirus in 2023 has been detected in an environmental sample in Lahore. The virus found in Gulshan Ravi has links to a poliovirus found in...