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New approach can improve COVID-19 predictions worldwide
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Copenhagen [Denmark], December 15 (ANI): Methods currently used for predicting the development of COVID-19 and other pandemics fail to report precisely on the best and worst-case scenarios. Newly developed prediction method for epidemics, published in Nature Physics, solve this problem.
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Africa can teach world about mass vaccination campaigns: WHO
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], December 15 (ANI/Sputnik): Africa has built more experience than any other continent in conducting large-scale health campaigns during the many past epidemics it had to face, inspiring confidence in its ability to manage the distribution of a coronavirus vaccine, WHO He
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Last-resort life support option helped majority of critically ill COVID-19
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 26 (ANI): It saved lives in past epidemics of lung-damaging viruses. Now, the life-support option known as ECMO appears to be doing the same for many of the critically ill COVID-19 patients, according to a new international study.
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Punjab extends parole period beyond 16 weeks
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], May 2 (ANI): The Punjab Cabinet has approved the extension of parole period beyond 16 weeks during epidemics and disasters for those sentenced to seven years or less.
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AAP's Sanjay Singh intends to introduce Public Health Prevention, control
Updated : 6 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], Mar 13 (ANI): In the backdrop of coronavirus outbreak and daily rising cases world-wide, AAP MP Sanjay Singh intends to introduce a Public Health (Prevention, control and management of epidemics) Bill, 2020 in the current Budget session of Rajya Sabha.
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Health emergency declared in Yemen over epidemics
Updated : 6 years, 4 months ago IST
Sana'a [Yemen], Nov 13 (ANI): Citing that the country is battling malaria and dengue fever, Yemen's health authorities on Tuesday declared a health emergency in the country.
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Bihar: As water recedes, administration initiates fogging in Patna
Updated : 6 years, 5 months ago IST
Patna (Bihar) [India], Oct 3 (ANI): With Patna returning to normalcy, district magistrate on Thursday initiated fogging in different localities of the city to prevent the likelihood of epidemics.
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Global Partners commit to step up the fight against AIDS, TB and Malaria
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
New Delhi [India], Feb 9 (ANI): At the kick-off meeting of the Global Fund’s Sixth Replenishment, leaders, global health organizations, civil society groups and people affected by the diseases vowed collective action to end the epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria and acceler
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Is sugar responsible for obesity and diabetes epidemics?
Updated : 8 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington D.C [U.S.], Jan. 08 (ANI): Gary Taubes, journalist and author, argues that sugar could be a fundamental cause of the global obesity and diabetic epidemics, with detrimental effects on the human body.
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No birthday bash or politics, only medical camps: Kamal Haasan
Updated : 8 years, 4 months ago IST
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India] November 7 (ANI): Actor Kamal Haasan on Tuesday said he is arranging medical camps to curb the spread of diseases and epidemics, and appealed to all not to link the initiative with politics.
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Thousands of refugees stuck at Jordan border face risk of epidemics
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
London [U.K.], Sept. 4 (ANI): Aid workers have warned that tens of thousands of "ghost" refugees, who have been trapped in the desert along Jordan's border with Syria for more than two months, are at a risk of epidemics.
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Swapping ill workers for healthy ones speeds up epidemics
Updated : 8 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C, Aug 2 (ANI): When disease outbreaks occur, replacing infected key individuals with healthy ones may actually spread the illness more rapidly through a community, suggests a recent study.
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