Dhaka, April 7 – As Bangladesh grapples with an outbreak of measles, a total of 118 people, mostly children, have died from suspected cases, local media reported on Tuesday, citing the country’s Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).According to the DGHS, the deaths have been recorded...
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Dhaka, April 5 Bangladesh on Sunday said a severe outbreak of measles has claimed the lives of at least 94 children in the past 19 days, prompting the government to launch an emergency campaign to combat the infectious disease.As the outbreak affected 56 out of the 64 administrative districts...
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Dhaka, March 30 – At least six new patients with measles symptoms were admitted to Bangladesh's Chattogram Medical College Hospital (CMCH), bringing the total number of patients in the pediatric ward to 18 on Monday, local media reported.Muhammad Musa, head of the Pediatric Department at CMCH...
Taiyuan, March 25 – Mass vomiting and diarrhea cases were reported at Yucai Primary School in the Xiaodian District of Taiyuan, the capital of Shanxi Province in northern China, on Wednesday morning. Initial tests confirmed a norovirus infection, according to local education authorities.An...
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Hamirpur (HP), March 11 Over two dozen people, including 13 schoolchildren, have contracted jaundice in areas adjoining Himachal Pradesh's Hamirpur city, triggering panic among residents and prompting authorities to collect water samples to ascertain the cause, officials said on Wednesday.The...
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Wellington, February 24 – Two new measles cases, linked to overseas travel and originating from the same household, have been detected in Auckland, three weeks after New Zealand declared an earlier outbreak over.The locations of interest include Singapore Airlines flight SQ281, which arrived...
Jamnagar (Gujarat), February 10 As many as 15 cases of cholera have been reported in the Dhararnagar area of Jamnagar city over the last three days, with officials suspecting that contaminated drinking water led to the outbreak.A notification declaring Dhararnagar and the area within a 2-km...