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Ebola outbreak in Congo set to become 2nd largest on record after 3,200 cases

About 80% of new cases are now being detected outside known contact lists, underscoring the difficulties health workers face in tracing transmission and containing the outbreak

Published 9 days ago

HPV vaccination: The kryptonite for cervical cancer in India

Earlier this year, the Government of India began rolling out HPV vaccination nationally using a single dose of Gardasil-4 vaccine to roughly 1.15 crore girls aged 14 years every year across all states and Union Territories. The vaccine is provided free of cost at designated Government health facilities. (HT Archive)

Published 11 days ago

What is Legionnaires' disease? Full list of NYC buildings linked to the outbreak

The Guggenheim Museum is among 31 NYC buildings where Legionella bacteria was detected.

Published 24 days ago

Checking the spread of cancer in India

WHO estimates for breast and childhood cancer survival show that for breast cancer, five-year survival is 87% in wealthy nations against 42% in poor ones — a difference not of tumours but of systems. This is not a knowledge problem. (Reuters)

Published 26 days ago

India cannot separate climate action from health outcomes

Climate and Health

Published 35 days ago

1,000 Ebola cases confirmed with 254 deaths in Congo outbreak, say authorities

A drone view of displaced people from the Kigonze camp attending the burial of suspected Ebola victims at Nyamurongo Cemetery, one month after an outbreak was declared, in Bunia, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, June 18, 2026.

Updated 43 days ago

WHO chief heads to Ebola-hit DR Congo

WHO chief heads to Ebola-hit DR Congo

Published 68 days ago

Gurugram civil hospital earmarks Ebola isolation ward amid global alert

Gurugram civil hospital earmarks Ebola isolation ward amid global alert

Published 69 days ago

DGCA issues directives for airlines after Ebola declared as 'health emergency'

Congolese medical workers wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) load a coffin of a patient that died of Ebola on a mobile trailer at the Rwampara General Hospital.

Updated 71 days ago

Government issues travel advisory, urges people to avoid Ebola-hit countries

Countries bordering the DRC and Uganda, including South Sudan, are assessed to be at high risk of disease transmission.

Updated 72 days ago

Ebola toll tops 200, other African countries seen at risk

Ebola toll tops 200, other African countries seen at risk

Published 73 days ago

Congo World Cup squad must isolate before entry to US: official

Congo World Cup squad must isolate before entry to US: official

Published 74 days ago

India holds high-level review amid Ebola outbreak in DR Congo; no cases reported

All ministries and departments concerned have also been sensitised and are undertaking appropriate preventive and surveillance measures in coordination with the health ministry, they stated.

Published 76 days ago

WHO’s pandemic pact paralysed over pathogen sharing

Negotiations on the Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing (PABS) system, the unfinished annex of the WHO Pandemic Agreement adopted in May 2025, again ended inconclusively at the 79th World Health Assembly in Geneva.

Updated 77 days ago

WHO chief concerned over ‘scale, speed’ of Ebola outbreak as 134 dead in Congo

In Congo, 30 cases have been confirmed, WHO chief Tedros later told a meeting of the UN health agency’s emergency committee.

Published 77 days ago

WHO holds key meeting after declaring Ebola outbreak a public health emergency

The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda has triggered panic waves due to its rare Bundibugyo strain

Published 77 days ago

Ebola and hantavirus outbreaks sign of our 'dangerous' times: WHO

Health workers dressed in protective gear at an Ebola treatment center in Congo.

Published 78 days ago

World Health Assembly opens on Monday amid global financial constraints

The World Health Organization (WHO) said in a statement that the Seventy-ninth World Health Assembly will take place from May 18 to 23 in Geneva. (REUTERS)

Published 79 days ago

Canada confirms first hantavirus case after passenger from ship tests positive

The cruise ship MV Hondius, affected by a hantavirus outbreak, leaves the port of Granadilla de Abona, Tenerife, Spain

Updated 80 days ago

‘Hantavirus can remain in semen…’: Study raises sexual transmission concern

Independent CONICET researcher and National University of Cordoba associate professor Raul Gonzalez Ittig holds a preserved specimen

Published 80 days ago

Hantavirus update: Is the cruise ship virus the next COVID? Here is the truth

Has Hantavirus Become Airborne Like Covid?

Published 83 days ago

Hantavirus outbreak and the anxieties of our times

There is little evidence to suggest widespread transmission beyond isolated settings, and WHO currently considers the global risk low. (AFP)

Published 84 days ago

British army parachutes on remote Atlantic island to help hantavirus patient

Members of the RAF drop medical kit to the Atlantic Island of Tristan Da Cunha to provide assistance to a British National who contracted hantavirus aboard an Atlantic expedition cruise ship, MV Hondius.

Published 86 days ago

Hantavirus update: Countries, cases and deaths linked to MV Hondius

Test tubes labelled "Hantavirus positive" are held in this illustration taken May 7, 2026.

Published 88 days ago

Hantavirus alert: Full list of countries directly or indirectly affected

Hantavirus News Live | Port Workers Protest As Hantavirus-Hit Cruise ship Expected to Dock | Spain

Updated 88 days ago

Hantavirus update: Flight attendant hospitalized as 40 left ship unchecked

Health officials worldwide are racing to trace cruise passengers after a deadly hantavirus outbreak.

Published 89 days ago

'We know this virus': WHO on comparisons of hantavirus to COVID-19 pandemic

On Cam: WHO Breaks Silence On Hantavirus Outbreak, Says Low Risk But More Cases Cannot Be Ruled Out

Updated 89 days ago

‘Possibility of more cases, but low public risk’: WHO on hantavirus outbreak

Cruise Ship In Isolation After Deadly Hantavirus Scare? Passengers Speak From Quarantined Voyage

Updated 89 days ago

Manhunt for 40 passengers, US on alert: Developments in hantavirus outbreak case

Hantavirus News Live | Port Workers Protest As Hantavirus-Hit Cruise ship Expected to Dock | Spain

Updated 89 days ago

What is hantavirus? Symptoms, causes explained as outbreak on ship sparks worry

Daisy Morinigo sits with her husband David Delgado as she speaks about their son Rodrigo Morinigo, who died in January of hantavirus, in San Andres de Giles, Argentina, Wednesday, May 6, 2026.

Updated 89 days ago

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