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Dengue fever surges in Brazil; The latest health stories from around the world

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Brazil is seeing an unprecedented surge in dengue, a viral disease that can cause excruciating pains and is sometimes fatal. An unusually hot rainy season, along with rapid, unplanned urbanization, have fuelled its spread this year. Health officials have reported more than 1 million suspected cases in January and February, four times as many as …

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New data reveals Ebola vaccine reduces mortality by half; The latest health stories from around the world

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There’s welcome news in the battle against the Ebola virus, an infectious disease that for years had almost no treatments or remedies. Outbreaks of the deadly Ebola virus flare up in parts of Africa almost every year, and they’re vicious. The virus kills about half the people it infects. But a new study published in The …

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Project NextGen to prepare for future pandemics; The latest health stories from around the world

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President Joe Biden’s administration said this week it plans to spend more than $5 billion to stoke development of better coronavirus vaccines and treatments to curb future pandemics. www.science.org/content/article/news-glance-new-us-coronavirus-research-lab-gears-carbon-cost-repurposed-accelerator? Like Operation Warp Speed, its predecessor during the administration of former President Donald Trump, the new program, Project NextGen, will rely on public-private partnerships, The Washington …

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Clinical trials show promising results for sleeping sickness drug; The latest health stories from around the world

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A new drug that can treat human African trypanosomiasis—commonly known as sleeping sickness—with just one dose has shown promise in a clinical trial in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Guinea. www.science.org/content/article/news-at-a-glance-snags-emissions-monitoring-negotiations-biodiversity-sleeping-sickness? The rare disease is caused by the parasite Trypanosoma brucei gambiense, which is transmitted by the tsetse fly. Left untreated, it is …

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AMR: The silent, parallel pandemic

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Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has emerged as a “silent pandemic”, commentators argue, as experts argue for a harmonised approach to mitigate the damage. The COVID-19 pandemic has contributed substantially to the AMR crisis, with the prescription of antibiotics for the treatment of those affected by COVID-19 contributing to an increase in AMR cases. This is a …

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India fails to outline pharmaceutical standard despite new research underlining the environmental importance

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India’s Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change has failed to outline norms for discharge standards for effluents from bulk drugs and pharmaceutical industries, due to a lack of ‘necessary information’. Home to one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical industries, India has long faced calls for regulation on effluents and runoff which have both an …

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Diphtheria threat increasing as infection evolves antimicrobial resistance

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Diphtheria’s threat is increasing as the easily-preventable infection, usually treated with antibiotics and vaccines, is evolving with antimicrobial-resistant (AMR) strains, posing a risk that the disease may once again become a major global challenge. This is according to an international team of researchers from the UK and India. They conducted the study using genomics to …

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Antimicrobial stewardship needed to prevent resistance rise in the midst of new normal and COVID-19

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Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has been identified by experts as a pitfall that may arise from the ‘new normal’ of the COVID-19 pandemic with virtual assessments limiting diagnostic capabilities. In India, poor availability and utilisation of diagnostics have led to increased focus on AMR and the need for better stewardship. Agencies such as the World Health …

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Antimicrobial Awareness Week begins: What it means for India

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Antimicrobial resistance is one of the most pressing public health issues of our time. With today marking the commencement of World Antimicrobial Awareness Week, it is worthwhile examining what antimicrobial resistance is and what it means for India. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines antimicrobial resistance as “when bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites resist the …

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Colistin resistance: AIIMS sounds the alarm

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In yet another concerning insight into India’s growing drug resistance epidemic, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Delhi has sounded alarms over colistin resistance among patients. The Trauma Centre at the facility has reported that, of 846 people studied who were infected with the Klebsiella pneumoniae bacterium, 22 did not respond to …

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India fails to outline pharmaceutical standard despite new research underlining the environmental importance

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Colistin resistance: AIIMS sounds the alarm

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