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Trans woman rides to fight HIV spread & stigma in Pakistan

Kiran Danish has been an outreach worker in HIV control program since 2009, she bike-rides to the length & breadth of Karachi to help patients

Dengue grips Islamabad as 81 more cases reported in 24 hours

Islamabad: The federal capital fears a dengue epidemic as 81 more cases of the mosquito carried viral disease have been reported in the last...

LSD epidemic: First consignment of vaccine arrives from Turkey

Karachi: Sindh DG livestock has confirmed the arrival of the first consignment of 1.1 million LSD vaccine doses out of a total of 4million...

LSD epidemic spreads to buffaloes too!

KARACHI: Lumpy Skin Disease (LSD) epidemic, after infecting and killing hundreds of cows, has now been detected in buffaloes, ARY News reported on Friday.  According...

Islamabad marred with another 147 dengue cases

ISLAMABAD: The dengue case surge in the federal capital has seen another fresh 147 cases in the past 24-hour period on Sunday and has...

A vaccine made of mosquito spit can stop the next epidemic

The vaccine, if it pans out, would protect against all of the pathogens the insects inject into humans - malaria, dengue, chikungunya, Zika, yellow fever, West Nile, Mayaro viruses and anything else that may emerge.

Health experts warn of emerging threat of Nipah virus

A deadly virus called Nipah carried by bats has already caused human outbreaks across South and South East Asia and has “serious epidemic potential”

Hopes Samoa measles epidemic close to peaking

Official government figures showed there had been one additional fatality since Tuesday, although the number of new measles cases climbed by 249 to 2,686 over the same period.

Cost of diabetes epidemic reaches $850 billion a year

NEW YORK: The number of people living with diabetes has tripled since 2000, pushing the global cost of the disease to $850 billion a...

Death toll from dengue fever climbs to 15 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

PESHAWAR: The outbreak of dengue fever in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province has so far claimed fifteen lives within two months with 400 patients, suffering from...

Tuberculosis epidemic larger than previously thought, warns WHO

WASHINGTON: The tuberculosis epidemic is larger than previously thought, infecting 10.4 million people last year, while research into vaccines and cures is "severely underfunded,"...

World must ready for global microcephaly ‘epidemic’: study

PARIS: The world should prepare for a "global epidemic" of microcephaly, a condition which restricts head growth in foetuses, as the Zika virus takes root in new countries, researchers said Friday.

Heroin use at 20-year high in U.S. drug ‘epidemic’, U.N. says

WASHINGTON: A heroin "epidemic" is gripping the United States, where cheap supply has helped push the number of users to a 20-year high, increasing drug-related deaths, the United Nations said on Thursday.

Poor countries increasingly targeted by tobacco marketing

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND: Faced with falling sales in richer nations, the tobacco industry has increasingly marketed their product in the developing world, where restrictions on promoting smoking are more relaxed, a new study said Tuesday.

Rape on U.S. university campuses reaches ‘epidemic’ levels: study

NEW YORK: More than 18 percent of female students at one U.S. university reported incidents of rape or attempted rape during their first year at the institution, according to a new study.

Meningitis epidemic kills 45 in Niger

NIAMEY: A meningitis epidemic that broke out in January in Niger has so far killed 45 people, the health minister told AFP on Saturday.

First Ebola case hits New York: report

NEW YORK: A doctor who recently returned to New York from treating Ebola patients in Guinea tested positive for the deadly virus Thursday, US news reports said.

Ebola adversely affected economic growth in West Africa: IMF

WASHINGTON: Economic growth in Liberia and Sierra Leone could decline by as much as 3.5 percentage points as the worst-ever outbreak of Ebola has crippled the key mining, agriculture and services sectors in the two West African countries, the IMF said on Thursday.

IMF says Ebola having ‘acute’ impact on West African economies

WASHINGTON: The worst ever outbreak of the Ebola disease is likely to lead to "sharply" lower growth in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone and raise financing needs in all three West African countries, an IMF spokesman said on Thursday.

Ebola causing huge damage to West Africa economies: development bank

FREETOWN: Ebola is causing enormous damage to West African economies, draining budgetary resources and slashing economic growth by up to 4 percent as foreign businessmen leave and projects are cancelled, the African Development Bank president said.
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