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When poliovirus was found in wastewater samples from three counties earlier in September, New York declared a State disaster emergency. This year, the environmental surveillance of sewage samples from Kolkata in India revealed the presence of vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV), however, the Health Ministry noted that this might happen in any nation where oral polio vaccinations (OPVs) are administered. The Global Polio Eradication Drive has now identified 30 nations where either imported wild or vaccine-derived poliovirus or circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus (cVDPV) has been detected. The United States is now included on this list. Israel, Ukraine, Nigeria, and Egypt are among the other countries on the list. Since polio is still prevalent in Afghanistan and Pakistan, those two nati...

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Only 52% Children With HIV Receive Life-Saving Treatment Globally: WHO

Arpita SarkarAugust 2, 20220

The World Health Organization (WHO), along with other global partners including UNAIDS and UNICEF, announced on Tuesday that only half (52%) of children with HIV are on life-saving treatment worldwide. According to the UNAIDS Global AIDS Update 2022 released recently, this figure among children lags behind that of adults where three quarters (76%) are taking antiretrovirals. WHO said, "Concerned by the stalling of progress for children, and the widening gap between children and adults, UNAIDS, UNICEF, WHO and partners have brought together a global alliance to ensure that no child living with HIV is denied treatment by the end of the decade and to prevent new infant HIV infections." The leaders at the International AIDS Conference in Montreal, Canada announced the new Global Alli...

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Leptospirosis: Tanzania Acknowledges A Deadly Explosion Of Mystery Infection

Isha PoddarJuly 25, 20220

A deadly outbreak of an unidentified disease in Tanzania has been recognised as leptospirosis, health officials said. More than 20 cases, including three dyings, have been reported in the southern Lindi region, with patients depicting signs similar to Ebola or Marburg virus infections -- bleeding, especially from the nose, fever, headache and fatigue, according to health officials. Introductory results from laboratory testing earlier this month had ruled out Ebola and Marburg viruses as well as COVID-19, causing the disease a mystery. Tanzanian Health Minister Ummy Mwalimu reported at a press conference Monday that the samples from patients tested positive for leptospirosis, a transmittable bacterial infection that impacts both humans and animals. The first case of the previously

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Over 4 Million Indians Died Due To COVID-19: WHO; Government’s Data Manipulated

Sonia SolankiMay 7, 20220

The World Health Organisation's (WHO) data on the Covid deaths in India clearly shows that the government has the power to manipulate the data. According to the WHO data, the number of death is almost ten times the death reported by the Indian government under the Covid deaths. It is not the first time that such an allegation surfaced regarding the covid death numbers in India. Recently only, New York Times also published a similar report stating how India is not letting the truth out pertaining to the death in the pandemic. WHO's Data Findings According to the World Mortality Dataset by WHO many nations have failed to report the true numbers of covid deaths. As per WHO, 15 million Covid deaths have occurred globally. The excess death is simply counted as how many more p...

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COVID-19: Covaxin Removed From WHO’s Covax Platform; Vaccine Safe To Use!

Gunjan ChaudharyApril 4, 20220

The World Health Organization (WHO) has removed Covaxin, a coronavirus vaccine that is developed in India by Bharat Biotech, from its Covax platform. The COVID vaccines included in this platform of WHO are given global support in production, international supply, development, research etc. but now the World Health Organization (WHO) has removed this vaccine from its portal suddenly. The World Health Organization (WHO) had said last Saturday that it had found deficiencies in Covaxin's production process, but that there were no issues with the vaccine's efficacy and safety and therefore they have removed the vaccine from the portal. Covaxin manufacturer Bharat Biotech claimed that the crores of people who have been vaccinated with this vaccine are completely safe, and their vacc...