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Category: Communicable disease

Posted on September 20, 2019November 4, 2019

Vaccine hesitancy and the deadly spread of measles

With 3,65,000 cases of measles reported globally in the first six months of this year, vaccine hesitancy appears to have grown more dangerous to public health. In 121 Indian districts…

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Posted on September 18, 2019

Transgenic mosquitoes transfer genes to native mosquito species

Transfer of genes from genetically-modified Aedes aegypti mosquitoes to naturally-occurring ones were seen in Brazil where transgenic mosquitoes were released from June 2013 to September 2015. Contrary to claims made, genes…

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Posted on September 6, 2019September 8, 2019

Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal perform better than India in controlling hepatitis B

India introduced hepatitis B vaccine in the Universal Immunisation Programme in 2002 and scaled-up nationwide in 2011. But even eight years later, the prevalence among children less than five years…

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Posted on August 31, 2019

Cholera bacteria from India show high drug-resistance

The 443 cholera-causing Vibrio cholerae isolates isolated from patients from Kolkata and Delhi show very high drug resistance to 22 antibiotics belonging to nine classes. About 99% of the isolates…

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Posted on August 16, 2019August 20, 2019

Deadly Ebola virus on the brink of being tamed

Preliminary analysis of 499 Ebola infected participants has sprung a surprise — the chances of survival may be as high as 90% if patients are treated with one of the…

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Posted on August 3, 2019

IIT Hyderabad: A step closer to oral administration of Kala-azar drug

Using a novel drug-delivery approach, IIT Hyderabad researchers have made oral administration of the drug Amphotericin B for treating Kala-azar and fungal infection possible. The drug encapsulated in polymer nanofibres…

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Posted on July 25, 2019August 8, 2019

Sri Lanka: Island of hope in the midst of global measles resurgence

Even as Europe is seeing a resurgence of measles with 1,60,000 cases and more than 100 deaths between January 2018 and May 2019, on July 9, Sri Lanka became the fourth country…

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Posted on July 20, 2019July 20, 2019

Merck’s unlicensed Ebola vaccine shows 97.5% efficacy in Congo

Merck’s Ebola vaccine, which underwent phase-3 trial during the 2014-2015 Ebola epidemic in west Africa, has shown 97.5% efficacy in preventing Ebola disease when used during the current epidemic in…

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