By NewsDesk   @bactiman63 The Sri Lanka Epidemiology Unit with the Ministry of Health recorded 99,120 dengue fever cases in 2019, nearly double the 51,659 cases seen in 2018. November saw the most cases...

By NewsDesk  @bactiman63 Health officials in Karachi, Pakistan are reporting an additional human rabies death this year, bringing the total case to 24 in Sindh province. According to the Daily Times,...

By NewsDesk   @bactiman63 While the numbers of dengue fever cases in Bangladesh have decreased dramatically since its peak in August this year (53,000), the country has still reported in excess of 1,000...

By NewsDesk   @bactiman63 Pakistan Seven additional wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases were reported in the past week in Pakistan–from Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces–bringing the...

By NewsDesk   @bactiman63 The number of dengue fever cases in Sri Lanka continue to rise rapidly in recent months with some 40,000 cases reported since October. Since the beginning of the year through...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Bangladesh saw the first dengue fever cases in 2000 and that time through 2017, the country reported from a few hundred cases a year to up to 6,000 a year. In 2018,...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews The Sri Lanka Epidemiology Unit of the Ministry of Health  is reporting 88,371 dengue fever cases as of Friday, up some 3,000 cases since our last report four days...

By NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews Health officials in Pakistan have reported more than 50,000 dengue fever cases in 2019 to date. The Ministry of National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination...

By NewsDesk   @bactiman63 Sri Lankan health officials have reportedly taken steps to introduce Wolbachia bacteria into the environment starting in February. The pilot project is to be carried out in...

By NewsDesk   @bactiman63 Sindh province in Pakistan has been battling a huge outbreak of extensively drug-resistant (XDR) typhoid fever during recent years. More than 11,000 cases have been reported...