Not many may know that the Hepatitis-B is 100 times deadlier than HIV and claims around one lakh lives in India every yea, said Dr. Manoj Kumar Sahu, Associate Professor at the Centre of Excellence for Gastrointestinal...
The new respiratory virus that emerged in the Middle East last year appears to make people sicker faster than SARS, but doesn’t seem to spread as easily, according to the latest detailed look at about four dozen...
The Costa Rica Vaccine Trial for human papillomavirus (HPV) in young women has had a “modest” impact on gynecologic outcomes in the first few years of the program. Data shows that the impact of vaccination on rates of...
A recent study that suggests the H7N9 avian influenza virus may be highly transmissible among humans is not strong enough to lead to any changes in the current H7N9 epidemic intervention strategy, said a senior Chinese...
The deadly Mers coronavirus that has emerged in Saudi Arabia poses a threat to hospitals because it spreads rapidly and carries a high mortality rate, according to a study out on Thursday. An international team of...
“It’s only a virus.” How often do GPs utter those words over the course of a working day? They mean, of course, that your symptoms are mild, non-specific, and don’t warrant any treatment. If you just go home and rest...
The human papillomavirus, which was known to cause many cases of cervical cancer, is now strongly associated with throat cancers. Luckily, evidence shows that vaccines could prevent the cancers from developing. Michael...
The polio virus was detected in 30 sewage samples in Israel, the World Health Organization confirmed, spurring Israel to step up its vaccination efforts. The samples from 10 sites in Israel were mostly from the southern...
Australian researchers have found promising new targets for a vaccine to prevent malaria, a disease that kills more than 600,000 people every year. Researchers at Melbourne’s Burnet Institute and the Papua New...
Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the US-based National Institutes of Health Dr Anthony Fauci has said that thirteen countries receiving U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS...