More children die from tuberculosis in India than anywhere else in the world. The disease killed 60,000 children below the age of 15 in the country in 2015. This represents roughly 25 percent of the global count. India holds a disproportionately high number of cases: TB is a disease that is endemic in low to […]
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Infectious disease is one of the most common causes of death in India. It is responsible for a vast swathe of hospital admissions and can cause lifelong medical complications pushing many into poverty. However, it has recently been revealed that despite, harbouring a population exceeding a billion, India has only fifty infectious disease specialists. This
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Pilots should be required to inform the air traffic controller of any passengers they suspect have a communicable disease, says the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA). An operations circular distributed by the DGCA has instructed that any passenger displaying obvious symptoms should be reported. These symptoms include fever, unwell appearance, persistent coughing, impaired breathing,
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The two most common lung diseases – asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) – were responsible for 3.6 million deaths in 2015. This is according to a recent study published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine. COPD claimed the lives of 3.2 million people worldwide. Asthma was also responsible for claiming the lives of a
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A Delhi government report has announced that two people died of smallpox and 11 died of polio in the capital last year. This announcement caused panic that two eradicated diseases had reemerged in India, though the announcement has since been declared a mistake, likely due to a clerical error. The Delhi government has attempted to
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<< back to Hepatitis C Six million Egyptians were infected with hepatitis C by unsterile needles during the country’s decades-long fight against schistosomiasis. Today, at least 10 percent of Egyptians, nearly nine million people, are chronically infected, the highest rate in the world. But a grand experiment unfolding across the country may change all that.
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<< back to Hepatitis C by Ajoy Bose In an unprecedented move to tackle the growing epidemic of Hepatitis C in the north Indian state of Punjab, free treatment is being made available by the local administration. This initiative has been strengthened by the recent sharp drop in the price of Hep C super drug
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With its last reported case of a wild polio infection dating back to January 2011, India completed the three-year mandatory period that a country needs to stay free of fresh polio infections in 2014, allowing it to be endorsed as a polio-free country. India is now introducing injectable polio vaccine (IPV) in its universal immunisation
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