A mysterious disease that began spreading in Eluru in Andhra Pradesh claimed one life on Sunday, while 292 others fell ill. More than 140 of the patients have returned home after treatment at the hospital, while the condition of others was stable, medical and health officials in the West Godavari …
Read More »Covid is far from over in India, says Lancet | India News
NEW DELHI: The Covid-19 pandemic is far from over in India and there is no room for “false optimism” as numbers are rising rapidly with the easing of restrictions creating an atmosphere of fatalism, The Lancet said in an editorial. “The epidemic in India is far from over, with a …
Read More »Covid-19: Masks May Slow Spread and Help Build Immunity, Says Magazine | India News
NEW DELHI: Before vaccine to discover smallpox, people used to resort to variolation, a process in which those who did not yet have the disease they were exposed to material from the scabs of patients with smallpox. This caused a mild infection, but protected them from getting the full illness. …
Read More »India’s Covid-19 death rate slides to 1.76 pc, one of the lowest in the world: Ministry of Health | India News
NEW DELHI: India has been reporting one of the lowest Covid-19 death rates in the world, and the figure has declined further to 1.76 percent compared to a global average of 3.3 percent, said the Wednesday the Union Ministry of Health. He also said that Covid-19 deaths per million people …
Read More »New disease in New York kids may be linked to virus: live updates
[ad_1] 15 children are hospitalized with a mysterious disease that may be related to the virus. Fifteen children, many of whom had the coronavirus, have recently been hospitalized in New York City with a mysterious syndrome that doctors don’t fully understand yet, but has also been reported in several European …
Read More »Which Curve is India Flattening – New Cases? Or Tests for the Disease?
[ad_1] New Delhi: The growth rate of new coronavirus cases in India is now doubling every 12 days, according to announcements by government officials, who see this as a sign that the lockdown-based strategy of containment is working. But as India moves into its third lockdown, a closer look at …
Read More »Managing kidney disease in COVID-19 positive cases is becoming challenging
[ad_1] Managing people with kidney disease among COVID-19 positive cases is becoming an additional challenge for doctors fighting the pandemic. On April 23, a 70-year-old man died of COVID-19 at the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital here after testing positive. Hospital authorities said he had diabetes, hypertension and chronic kidney …
Read More »Italy and the UK explore COVID-19’s possible link to childhood inflammatory disease
[ad_1] MILAN / LONDON (Reuters) – Italian and British medical experts are investigating a possible link between the coronavirus pandemic and clusters of serious inflammatory diseases among newborns arriving at the hospital with high fever and inflamed arteries. Scientists work in a laboratory to analyze samples of COVID-19 at the …
Read More »Italy and the UK explore COVID-19’s possible link to childhood inflammatory disease
[ad_1] MILAN / LONDON (Reuters) – Italian and British medical experts are investigating a possible link between the coronavirus pandemic and clusters of serious inflammatory diseases among newborns arriving at the hospital with high fever and inflamed arteries. Britain’s Secretary of State for Health Matt Hancock in Downing Street following …
Read More »Why does a disease of thousands of years keep killing?
[ad_1] Representative image | Pixabay Text size: A- A + Edinburgh: Mosquitoes in hot and sensual parts of the world have been agents of great misery for thousands of years, carrying within them microscopic parasites that are responsible for around 5 lakh of deaths per year. These parasites belong to …
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