Northern Ethiopia facing devastating spike in preventable disease: WHO

Oct 29, 2022, at 11:52 pm

New York: The UN health agency WHO expressed serious concerns on Friday about a likely spike in a range of preventable diseases in Ethiopia’s northern regions - and in particular Tigray – caused by nearly two years of conflict and chronic aid access problems.

IIT-G collaborates with Hester Biosciences Limited to develop vaccine against COVID-19

Apr 29, 2020, at 02:57 pm

Guwahati/IBNS: Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati (IIT-G) is collaborating with Hester Biosciences Limited – a pharmaceutical company based in Ahmedabad in Gujarat, to work on the vaccine development against COVID-19.

Disease outbreaks threaten Papua New Guinea’s quake-hit communities – UN

Apr 11, 2018, at 01:59 pm

New York, Apr 11 (IBNS): In earthquake-hit Papua New Guinea, United Nations agencies on the ground are warning of a new looming threat: water-borne disease outbreaks, such as that of diarrhoea and measles.

Oceanic plastic trash conveys disease to coral reefs: Study

Jan 28, 2018, at 12:22 am

California, Jan 27 (IBNS): For coral reefs, the threat of climate change and bleaching are bad enough. 

Randomness a key in spread of disease, other ‘evil’, says study

Jan 06, 2018, at 12:43 am

Toronto, Jan 5 (IBNS): An unfortunate church dinner more than 100 years ago did more than just spread typhoid fever to scores of Californians.