Lightning is unlikely to strike the same place twice, but the Nipah virus is again wreaking havoc in Kozhikode, the fourth outbreak of the disease in Kerala over the last five years. With two persons dying of Nipah this week in Kozhikode, and three more persons, two of them relatives of one of the victims, testing positive, and being hospitalised, …
As part of the BBMP’s public health strategy, the civic body is working on setting up a Metropolitan Surveillance Unit on the premises of the Public Health Institute. The unit that will be fully funded by the Centre will help the civic body in putting in place a structured surveillance system and identify potential disease outbreaks, said K.V. Asserting the …
COVID-19, with all its cascading effects, is expected to cost the global economy upwards of $1 trillion, says the UN’s trade and development agency. As governments, multilateral agencies, and financial institutions scramble to mitigate fallout, COVID-19 has brought starkly into focus the idea that systemic risk in our global supply chains means pandemics and other public health crises are not …
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