カテゴリー: Infectious diseases
Pneumonia-like illness in Wuhan is unclear in origin, with officials racing to contain outbreak before people travel for new yearChina has been battling what may be a new strain of pneumonia after 59 people contracted a mysterious respiratory illness i…
Fears of new epidemic after people taken to hospital in Wuhan with viral pneumoniaA mysterious respiratory illness that has infected dozens of people in a central Chinese city is not Sars, local authorities have said.The 2002-03 epidemic of severe acut…
Nation lifts two-day curfew amid rise in mandatory vaccinations and arrest of ‘anti-vaxxer’Samoa has said nearly 90% of eligible people have been vaccinated against measles as it lifted a two-day curfew imposed amid an outbreak that has killed 65 in re…
Rising temperatures linked to outbreaks of dengue fever high in the Kathmandu Valley, experts say•Global heating behind record number of cases of the diseaseLilawati Awasthi is used to the risks that come from living in a remote mountainous district in…
Otago Daily Times criticised for cartoon joking about measles outbreak that has killed 55A New Zealand newspaper has caused outrage for publishing a cartoon that made light of the measles crisis engulfing Samoa, which has killed 55 people so far, most …
Record numbers across Asia and Americas infected as rising temperatures extend disease to places once seen as safeRising temperatures across Asia and the Americas have contributed to multiple severe outbreaks of dengue fever globally over the past six …
In six weeks, a measles outbreak has infected 3,000 people out of a population of 200,000, killing 42, mostly childrenFa’aoso Tuivale sleeps on her children’s grave during the day, when she misses them most.She and her husband, Tuivale Luamanuvae Puelu…
Authorities working to contain outbreak of disease that is worse than bubonic plagueTwo people in China have been diagnosed with plague, the latest cases of a disease more commonly associated with historical catastrophe.Plague is caused by the bacteriu…
Authorities working to contain outbreak of disease that is worse than bubonic plagueTwo people in China have been diagnosed with plague, the latest cases of a disease more commonly associated with historical catastrophe.Plague is caused by the bacteriu…