When cholera is mentioned, most people envisage contaminated water supplies and tragic outbreaks in vulnerable regions. Yet ...

Malathy Iyer is Senior Editor (Health) at The Times of India, Mumbai. She writes mainly on health-related subjects.

The University of Oxford has received support from European Medicines Agency's (EMA) for its vaccine targeting the deadly ...

Scientists have fast-tracked a vaccine for a killer virus with pandemic potential that is fatal in up to 85 per cent of cases ...

A 30-bedded COVID ward was opened in Dindigul Medical College Hospital on Tuesday afternoon, June 3, according to a report by ...

Travellers to Spain have been alerted after a nasty disease which can lead to multi-organ failure was detected in a tourist ...

A patient infected with the Nipah virus in this district has tested negative for the virus in two separate samples and is now considered technically free of the infection, Kerala Health Minister Veena ...

Kerala Health Minister Veena George has said the quarantine and observation period of all the 166 people who came in contact with a woman who tested positive for Nipah Virus in the district ended on ...

Currently, there are no vaccines to prevent or mitigate infection with the Nipah virus and no effective treatments for the disease other than supportive care. The virus, harbored by fruit bats ...

Nipah virus (NiV), a zoonotic paramyxovirus with ... facilitating transmission to humans. Human infections have been reported across Malaysia, Singapore, Bangladesh, India, and the Philippines ...

Winter brings not only beauty but also a variety of flu and cold-related illnesses, among which Nipah virus infection is a rising threat in rural Bangladesh. What is the Nipah virus (NiV)? Nipah is a ...

There is no vaccine to prevent infection and no treatment ... at risk globally for outbreaks of the virus, a Reuters investigation showed last year. Nipah, which comes from fruit bats and animals ...