Epidemic

India to resume exporting surplus COVID-19 vaccines in October, says health minister Mansukh Mandaviya

Addressing the media, the minister said the government will receive over 30 crore doses of COVID-19 vaccines in October and over 100 crore doses in the next three months.

Ebola can spread via fruit bats or from human to human contact: Everything you need to know about the virus

A vaccine developed by the US group Merck Sharp and Dohme was found to be very effective in a major study carried out in Guinea in 2015.

From COVID-19 vaccines to oxygen, a look at how India helped SAARC countries during pandemic

In a bid to help Nepal tackle the coronavirus pandemic, India on Thursday gifted a medical oxygen plant to the Himalayan nation

India may be entering endemic COVID-19 stage with low or moderate level of transmission says WHO Chief Scientist

The endemic stage is when a population learns to live with a virus and is different from the epidemic stage when the virus overwhelms a population

While battling its COVID-19 crisis, India struggles with a ‘Black Fungus’ epidemic

PM Modi described the fungal disease as a new “challenge” and said it was “important to create systems to tackle it.”

Black fungus: From symptoms to causes of infection, here are key facts about the disease

Black Fungus: Who is at high risk? What should you do if you experience symptoms? How Black Fungus spreads, Signs, symptoms to causes of infection, everything you need to know about it

WHO initiates International day of Epidemic Preparedness, releases list of 10 public health issues

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the progress made in public health, on the global level, over the past two decades is threatening to collapse.

Chinmay Tumbe on his new book that investigates major pandemics, and how they influenced India, the world

In 'The Age of Pandemics', Tumbe specifically focuses on the period between 1817 to 1920, which witnessed nearly five percent of the mid-point global population —or 70 million people — being wiped out by pandemics.

Six months after first Ebola case recorded, outbreak in Congo comes to an end

The WHO along with its partners have treated and vaccinated more than 40,000 people at high risk, across dense rainforests and crowded urban areas.

Up to 850,000 animal viruses could be caught by humans, unless we protect nature: UN report

The report says an estimated 1.7 million currently undiscovered viruses are thought to exist in mammal and avian hosts.