With overcrowded shelters and unsanitary conditions worsening by the day, the risk of a cholera outbreak and other waterborne diseases is escalating, further endangering an already vulnerable ...

A four-day international conference on vector-borne diseases commenced at Saveetha Medical College in Chennai on Tuesday (January 21, 2025). According to a press release, the conference was ...

When news broke a few weeks ago of a respiratory infection driving up hospitalizations in Northern China, some headlines misrepresented the novelty of the virus responsible for the disease. " ...

A method for the simultaneous detection of disease-causing bacteria ... project will next be used to investigate the genetic epidemiology of food- and water-borne multiresistant Campylobacter and ...

High blood pressure affects multiple organs. Not only can hypertension add stress to the heart and damage arteries, leading to heart disease, but it also can cause strokes and kidney disease as ...

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He says Bwaise being a wetland and slum floods whenever it rains, which exposes its residents to waterborne diseases such as cholera and typhoid. Sharifa Kizza, a mother of six, has lived in ...

THE Ministry of Health (MoH) is ready to deal with cases involving water-borne diseases at all facilities including its temporary operations centres following the ongoing floods in several states. Its ...

In the conflict-affected regions surrounding Lake Chad, 5.6 million children are at a heightened risk for waterborne diseases as the rainy season begins. Yemen is facing “the worst cholera epidemic in ...

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