by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 18, 2023 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Policy, Risk Management
Looking at the upcoming festive season, the Union Health Secretary advised the states to put in place requisite public health measures and other arrangements to minimise risk of increase in transmission of the disease by adherence to maintenance of respiratory hygiene...
by AIP Online Bureau | Dec 16, 2023 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Pandemic
“JN.1 is a severely immune-evasive and fast-spreading variant, markedly different from XBB and all other prior versions of this virus. This enables it to infect people who had previous Covid infections and also people who were vaccinated,” Rajeev...
by AIP Online Bureau | Nov 27, 2023 | Facts, Health, Pandemic
”Our analysis suggests higher dose dexamethasone may have less beneficial effects for patients in India as compared with those in Europe; however, the evidence is weak, and this could represent a chance finding,” the authors of the study noted A higher...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 30, 2023 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health
“Disease X represents the knowledge that a serious international epidemic could be caused by a pathogen currently unknown to cause human disease,” the WHO said. Some public health experts believe the next Disease X will be zoonotic, meaning it will originate in wild...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 3, 2023 | Data, Eco/Invest/Demography, Features, Health, Life, Non-Life, Pandemic
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in its August 23 risk assessment, stated that based on currently available data, updated Covid-19 vaccines targeting the XBB.1.5 variant are expected to be effective against BA.2.86, for reducing severe disease...
