Prolonged exposure to high temperatures can affect the body’s natural thermoregulation mechanisms and lead to a range of health conditions, experts said at a webinar organised by The Hindu on Saturday
From Bukavu to Kinshasa, concern is spreading among residents and street vendors as Ebola cases rise.
In the butchering section, drains clogged with meat waste were found emitting a pungent smell, which officials said posed a serious public health concern
Al Jazeera’s Catherine Soi reports on the emergency measures implemented in Uganda in response to the Ebola outbreak.
The instructions come after a dog fled with an amputated limb from the Government General Hospital premises in Vijayawada
Argentina’s city “at the end of the world” Ushuaia, the jump-off point for expeditions to the Antarctic, has been labouring under suspicion of being the source of the deadly hantavirus outbreak that killed three cruise ship passengers. The MV Hondius set sail from this spectacular Patagonian port, sandwiched between snow-capped mountains and the South Atlantic, on April 1. Five days later, a Dutch man who had travelled through South America on a birdwatching trip with his wife, developed...
A French woman infected in the deadly hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship is critically ill and being treated with an artificial lung, a doctor at the Paris hospital caring for the sickened passenger said on Tuesday. The outbreak has now reached 11 total reported cases, nine of which have been confirmed. Three people on the cruise died, including a Dutch couple that health officials believe were the first exposed to the virus while visiting South America. The French passenger hospitalised in...