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Facebook accounts and telephone records can be used to pinpoint the best individuals to vaccinate to stop a disease outbreak. (Photo: Pixabay)

How Facebook could stop a disease outbreak

Assuming there is an outbreak, and not enough vaccines for every person in the world.

3 Jan 2018 11:06 AM IST

World Health Organisation (WHO) estimated that in Yemen alone there have been a million cases of cholera. (Photo: Pixabay)

Namibia reports first cholera case after deadly outbreak in Zambia

Ministry said further investigation is ongoing and health workers have been alerted to be on the lookout for cholera...

1 Feb 2018 8:19 AM IST

It will sell a range of craft beers as well as special ales created exclusively for Disneyland. (Photo: Pixabay)

Measles-stricken girl visits Disneyland amid worst outbreak in US in...

The Orange County Health Care Agency said that the girl was in Southern California from August 11 to August 15.

25 Aug 2019 4:14 PM IST

Cholera is a waterborne bacterial disease. (WHO)

Bengaluru has cholera in the time of coronavirus

With six cases reported at hospitals, civic staff scurry to collect water samples

8 March 2020 8:35 PM IST

Flu can be transmitted through breathing, against all notions of contamination by exposure to droplets from coughs and sneezes. (Photo: Pixabay)

Find why Spanish flu is deadlier than World War I

The geographic origin of the epidemic is not certain and no samples remain for further study.

9 March 2018 1:50 PM IST

Some 28,000 people were infected with Ebola in the outbreak which began in late 2013 and continued through last year, killing more than 11,000 people mainly in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia. (Photo: AFP)

14 confirmed Ebola cases in Congo as WHO holds emergency meeting

The World Health Organization held an emergency meeting on Friday and called the risk to the public in Congo "very...

18 May 2018 1:39 PM IST

Dr. Guyauma Ngoyi Mwamba, centre, representative of the Democratic Republic of Congo on Expanded Program on Immunization, is administered with a vaccine during a vaccination campaign in Mbandaka, Congo Monday, May 21, 2018. Congos health minister says a nurse has died from Ebola in Bikoro, the rural northwestern town where the outbreak began, as the country begins a vaccination campaign. (Photo: AP)

WHO's Congo Ebola plan assumes 100-300 cases over three months

The plan also sets out targets for the disease response, including that 100 percent of new cases should come from known...

30 May 2018 9:22 AM IST

The World Health Organization is planning to try out an experimental Ebola vaccine to fight the outbreak of the virus. (Photo: AP)

Congo receives first doses of Ebola vaccine amid outbreak

Health Ministry said vaccinations would start at weekend, first time vaccine would come into use since it was developed...

17 May 2018 8:19 AM IST

If superspreading had been completely under control about two-thirds of Ebola cases could have been avoided (Photo: AFP)

Congo, UN deploy specialists to tackle Ebola epidemic

World Health Organisation obtained 4,000 doses of experimental Ebola vaccine and was preparing for deployment in Congo.

15 May 2018 10:08 AM IST

The World Health Organization is planning to try out an experimental Ebola vaccine to fight the outbreak of the virus. (Photo: AP)

WHO says 19 dead, 39 infected so far in Congo Ebola outbreak

It said 393 people who identified as contacts of Ebola patients were being followed up.

15 May 2018 9:38 AM IST

World Health Organisation (WHO) estimated that in Yemen alone there have been a million cases of cholera. (Photo: Pixabay)

Fast-acting cholera vaccine may curb outbreaks

The researchers began with the DNA sequence of the current version of the virulent V cholerae.

14 Jun 2018 1:40 PM IST

Unfortunately, many cattle are getting affected day by day and a strong remedy is needed (Photo: AFP)

Foot-and-mouth disease outbreak hits Tiruvallur in TN

According to the cattle raisers, from past two months, more than 10 cattle have died.

26 March 2017 11:48 AM IST