by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 30, 2023 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News
The virus strain seen in Kerala was the Bangladesh variant, which generally has a high mortality rate, Kerala Health Minister Veena George said in a Facebook post Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Health Minister Veena George has said that the effective and timely...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 19, 2023 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Policy
”We are on constant alert, constant vigil, that will continue, and integration of some departments, like we have developed a ”one health programme” in Kerala based on our experiences on Nipah. Because this is an era of zoonotic diseases, we cannot...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 17, 2023 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News
‘So, as of now, there is no secondary wave. That is welcome news,” said Veena George,Health Minister,Kerala Kozhikode: In a relief for the Kerala government, no fresh positive cases of Nipah virus were reported on Saturday in the state even as five more...
by AIP Online Bureau | Sep 14, 2023 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Policy
State Health Minister Veena George said that there are 14 persons in isolation who don’t have any epidemiological link with the persons who died of the Nipah virus The Kerala government on Thursday decided to take body-fluid samples of all of those who are on...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 14, 2022 | Health, Indian News
Union Ministry of Health & Family Welfare has rushed a high-level multi-disciplinary team to Kerala to collaborate with the State Health Authorities in instituting public health measures in view of the confirmed case of Monkey Pox in Kollam district of Kerala...