disease prevention

Multiple sclerosis: new evidence for the role of glandular fever virus

Researchers are still debating exactly how a common virus called Epstein-Barr virus could cause MS in certain people

The ‘right to health’ goal and a role for Taiwan

With COVID-19 ‘over’, applying the lessons learnt

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Government programme for non-communicable diseases renamed

Bindu Shajan Perappadan

The SARS-CoV-2 virus is here to stay, and countries need to manage it alongside other infectious diseases: WHO

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The anti-rabies vaccination centre at Institute of Preventive Medicine, Narayanguda, Hyderabad. While many States report a vaccine shortage, a research centre in Kasauli had to discard vaccine vials earlier this year due to lack of demand. File

Behind the ‘dearth’ of rabies vaccine in India

A new edge to the fight against tuberculosis

WHO, an anniversary year, and sharpening the ‘Health for All’ goal

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contamination of eye drops

India seeks information from USFDA/CDC on alleged contamination of eye drops

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FILE PHOTO: A vial of the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine is pictured at the International Community Health Services clinic in Seattle, Washington, U.S., March 20, 2019. Picture taken March 20, 2019. REUTERS/Lindsey Wasson/File Photo

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Special fever camp is being held at Manakadu Kamarajar Municipal Girls Higher Secondary School in Salem on September 21, 2022.

Special fever camps held at 268 locations in Salem district

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FILE - This 2014 illustration made available by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention depicts a polio virus particle. The polio virus has been found in New York City’s wastewater in another sign that the disease, which hadn’t been seen in the U.S. in a decade, is quietly spreading among unvaccinated people, health officials said Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. (Sarah Poser, Meredith Boyter Newlove/CDC via AP, File)

Baby dies due to poliovirus as Pakistan seems failing to contain the crippling disease

Erode district Collector H. Krishnanunni chairs a meeting on the steps to be taken for prevention of dengue outbreak, at Erode on September 12, 2022

Officials told to expedite dengue prevention measures in Erode

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Representational image only: A child at a government hospital in Tamil Nadu.

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Learning lessons: on a strategy for monkeypox

EU approves smallpox vaccine for use against monkeypox. A file photo of test tubes labeled “Monkeypox virus-positive and negative”.

EU approves smallpox vaccine for use against monkeypox