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NEW DELHI: The much-delayed 4th India-Africa summit that India was to host from May 28 to 31 was postponed on Thursday on account of the deadly Ebola virus outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Though not yet a global pandemic, the risk posed by the virus made WHO declare a health emergency of international…
NEW DELHI: Union health secretary Punya Salila Srivastava on Wednesday chaired a high-level meeting with health secretaries of all states and Union territories to review preparedness and response measures against Ebola virus disease, following the World Health Organisation’s declaration of the outbreak as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC).The review comes as Ebola…
136 dead, no vaccine or cure: WHO chief warns over ‘scale and speed’ of Ebola outbreak (Image credit: AP) The World Health Organisation chief on Tuesday said he was “deeply concerned” by an Ebola outbreak in Congo caused by a rare strain for which there are no approved vaccines or treatments, as the death toll…
A Canadian passenger who travelled aboard the cruise ship MV Hondius has tested “presumptive positive” for the Andes strain of hantavirus, raising fresh concern as health authorities continue monitoring passengers linked to the outbreak that has already claimed three lives. Officials in Canada’s British Columbia province said the patient, one of four Canadians who returned…
GUWAHATI: Manipur’s ethnic unrest that began three years ago between the Meitei and Kuki-Zo has now hardened into entrenched hostility, and widened to include Naga groups, particularly in Ukhrul and Kangpokpi districts.The fresh conflict between Tangkhul Naga and Kuki has its roots in Litan in Ukhrul district in Feb this year, when a Tangkhul Naga…
Hantavirus Outbreak (Image credit: AP) The World Health Organization, in an update issued on May 13, has confirmed that the recent Hantavirus outbreak linked to the cruise ship MV Hondius has claimed three lives this year. It said that 11 cases have been reported so far, including eight confirmed infections linked to the Andes virus,…
Eight people infected in the hantavirus outbreak linked to the cruise ship MV Hondius have tested positive for the Andes virus, the only hantavirus strain known to spread between humans, the World Health Organisation said on Wednesday.According to AFP, the WHO said, “eight cases were laboratory-confirmed for Andes virus (ANDV) infection, two are probable, and…
Representative image (AP) A French woman infected during the deadly hantavirus outbreak aboard a cruise ship is in critical condition and receiving treatment with an artificial lung at a Paris hospital. The French passenger being treated in Paris has developed a severe form of hantavirus that has triggered life-threatening complications affecting both her lungs and…
Dutch ornithologist Leo Schilperoord Dutch ornithologist Leo Schilperoord, whose lifelong quest for the rare and the beautiful ended in a global health emergency, has been identified as patient zero in the deadly hantavirus outbreak aboard the expedition cruise ship MV Hondius, according to Argentine authorities.Authorities believe the 70-year-old and his wife, Mirjam Schilperoord, 69, contracted…
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday said the Andes hantavirus linked to the deadly outbreak aboard the Dutch-flagged cruise ship MV Hondius is most infectious during the initial stage of illness, underlining the need for strict quarantine measures for passengers and crew.The rare virus outbreak on the ship has so far claimed three lives…
