The United States is in the grip of a flu epidemic. Over 100 deaths have been attributed to the disease with 24 states and New York City reporting high levels of flu activity, according to CDC's flu advisory report for December 30 through January 5. That's down from 29 states the previous week, Thomas Frieden, director of the CDC was cited as saying by CNN. ...
11:07 AM, Jan 12, 2013
Bangalore: If you thought that piled up garbage was just an eyesore, which also happens to attack your sense of smell, there is certainly something more you need to be worried about. Apart from the rising cases of Dengue being reported in the city (which BBMP continues to deny), there are a host of other diseases which carry evident signs of the city heading for an epidemic. When City Express...
02:34 PM, Aug 27, 2012
CHENNAI : The city was brought under the blanket cover of an intensified anti-dengue fogging drive on Thursday, following a dengue outbreak in the southern districts of the State. Mayor Saidai S Duraisamy launched the drive by the Chennai Corporation at Varadharajapettai in Egmore.According to a health officer with Chennai Corporation, fogging will be done in the 200 wards of the city on two selected days every week.Fogging is planned...
08:27 AM, May 25, 2012
Mumbai: Testing times lie ahead for citizens. After a brief interlude for a greater part of last year, Mumbaikars are feeling the chills again, as the dreaded swine flu virus is back to stalk the city. While most medical experts mask their fears, five citizens have already contracted the deadly disease, within a matter of days. After a period of dormancy since June last year, the virus resurfaced in Pune...
01:01 PM, Mar 27, 2012
Gorakhpur: Seven more children have succumbed to the encephalitis epidemic at a single hospital in Uttar Pradesh in the last 24 hours, taking the total death toll in the state well above 500 in the last two months. Out of the seven children died at the encephalitis ward in Gorakhpur's BRD Medical College, 10-month-old Harsh was one. "We named him harsh thinking he would bring us joy, but god had...
10:58 PM, Oct 11, 2011
Port-au-Prince: At least 2,707 people have died in Haiti in the cholera epidemic that has affected the impoverished country since mid-October, according to figures released on Monday by the public health ministry. The bulletin said that another 128,251 people have been affected by the disease, of whom 68,764 were hospitalised, though 66,876 of them have since been released from medical care. Cholera, which was eradicated in Haiti until the outbreak...
11:23 AM, Dec 28, 2010
Delhi's worries continue to grow as swine flu is all set to make a comeback to the national capital. ...
03:52 PM, Sep 27, 2010
With water levels going down, tonnes of relief material is making its way to some of the inaccessible regions of the state. ...
07:01 PM, Sep 24, 2010
Heavy rains claimed six lives on Friday and continued to wreak havoc in several parts of north India. ...
12:31 PM, Jul 24, 2010
Between 30% and 50% of the American population could get affected. ...
12:31 PM, Aug 25, 2009
WHO earlier estimated that as many as 2 bn could be infected over next 2 years. ...
02:29 AM, Aug 22, 2009
A third of the planet's population could get infected, says official. ...
11:43 PM, May 07, 2009
Pontiff make first statement on issue that has Catholic church divide. ...
06:28 PM, Mar 18, 2009
Rice said action needed to be taken over political unrest, health problems. ...
01:49 PM, Dec 22, 2008
Culling operations are underway and poultry sale has been banned in Assam. ...
03:28 PM, Dec 13, 2008
Health authorities scramble to confirm reports that 150 have caught the disease. ...
08:48 PM, Dec 12, 2008
Ten cases of diarrhoea deaths have been reported from Supaul district. ...
06:27 PM, Sep 07, 2008
RRTs have been constituted to fight the outbreak of water-borne diseases. ...
02:14 PM, Sep 04, 2008
India fit to fight swine flu: Azad | 6-yr-old India's latest case ... 
