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Life & Style Published 27 Feb, 2023 11:42am

Contaminated food, water: Cholera threatens Pakistan, says WHO

Poverty, disasters, conflict and climate change consequences continue to be driving factors alongside a lack of access to safe water and sanitation

Pakistan Published 04 Jan, 2023 08:20pm

Airport screenings won’t stop spread of XBB subvariant: expert

Dr Rana Jawad Asghar says new strain more active and resilient

Life & Style Updated 20 Oct, 2022 11:52am

WHO says Covid-19 is still a global health emergency

Virus continues to change, remain many risks and uncertainties: WHO chief

World Published 06 Oct, 2022 08:00am

WHO issues alert after Indian made cough syrups cause deaths

At least 66 children die in the Gambia from kidney injuries

World Published 05 Oct, 2022 08:44pm

WHO probing Indian cough syrup after 66 children die in The Gambia

Warns that the contaminated products could have been distributed to other countries

Pakistan Published 18 Sep, 2022 01:41pm

WHO concerned over potential for second disaster in Pakistan

Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says body will issue a revised appeal shortly

Life & Style Published 02 Sep, 2022 11:43am

US CDC recommends boosters targeting Omicron

Pfizer-BioNTech shot is recommended for people 12 and older and Moderna's for those 18 years and up

Life & Style Published 01 Sep, 2022 09:00am

New treatment emerges for drug-resistant TB

Reduces number of pills a patient has to take

Health Published 16 Aug, 2022 04:58pm

WHO turns to public for monkeypox name change

Experts warn the name can be stigmatising to the primates it was named after

Health Published 11 Aug, 2022 11:41am

London children to be offered polio booster as samples found

The last case of polio in UK was in 1984

Health Updated 03 Aug, 2022 07:06pm

Pakistan reports highest single-day Covid deaths since July 16

NIH urges people to follow SOPs in Muharram

Health Published 01 Aug, 2022 10:44pm

India reports Asia’s first possible monkeypox death

WHO says more than 18,000 monkeypox cases have been detected throughout the world

Health Published 25 Jul, 2022 01:00pm

Pakistan increases surveillance for suspected monkeypox cases

No monkeypox cases have been recorded in Pakistan yet

Health Published 24 Jul, 2022 02:23pm

WHO declares global health emergency over monkeypox outbreak

More than 16,000 cases of monkeypox in more than 75 countries

Health Published 23 Jul, 2022 11:41pm

WHO triggers highest alert on monkeypox

Monkeypox has affected over 16,800 people in 74 countries

Pakistan Updated 23 Jul, 2022 12:35pm

Covid claims seven more lives, positivity rate highest in a week

NCOC issues SOPs, advisory ahead for gatherings, processions during Muharram

Health Published 13 Jul, 2022 01:16pm

WHO warns Covid-19 pandemic ‘nowhere near over’

Cases increased in the past weeks

Health Published 05 Jul, 2022 04:06pm

Monkeypox cases top 5,000: WHO

WHO report about monkeypox cases.

Health Published 27 Jun, 2022 10:46am

Monkeypox not presently a global public health concern: WHO

The viral disease occurs primarily in tropical rainforest areas of Central and West Africa

Health Updated 18 Jun, 2022 04:09pm

Hepatitis more prevalent in men than women, top moot told

Officials say routine immunisation of children necessary to eliminate it

▶️ Health Published 31 May, 2022 08:14pm

Tobacco is not only harmful for you but also the environment

Tobacco industry leaves a long trail of destruction even before the product is sold

Health Published 28 May, 2022 05:14pm

Disease experts call on WHO, governments for more action on monkeypox

Preventing pandemics once they have started spreading is too late, say experts

World Published 27 May, 2022 04:02pm

Monkeypox can be contained if we act now, WHO says

WHO officials said that there was no need for mass vaccination

Pakistan Published 23 May, 2022 04:29pm

Sindh issues alert for probable spread of monkeypox

Health department advises mandatory screening of people who have travelled from virus affected countries

Pakistan Updated 23 May, 2022 02:53pm

Nationwide campaign begins to end crippling poliovirus causing paralysis

Pakistan aims to vaccinate 43.3m children in polio campaign; around 340,000 polio frontline workers will provide polio vaccines in 156 districts of the country

Health Published 21 May, 2022 03:26pm

WHO calls emergency meeting as monkeypox cases top 100 in Europe

Over 100 cases were confirmed in Europe this week of the viral infection of monkeypox

Health Published 20 May, 2022 08:32pm

Monkeypox outbreak in Europe ‘largest ever’ in region as cases cross 100

First identified in monkeys, the disease typically spreads through close contact and has rarely spread outside Africa