Diarrhoea Deaths

India's vaccination coverage to prevent rotavirus infection, a leading cause of severe diarrhoea in young children, was the lowest among the 15 countries which introduced it last year, a new report said Friday. It also pointed out that India lost over 2.6 lakh children under five years from pneumonia and diarrhoea in 2016.

Two inmates died at a shelter for women with mental disabilities in Bihar, their postmortem was also conducted at Patna Medical College, but the officials of the state-run facility didn't bother to inform the police. Two days after the police got to know about the incident this morning,a board was constituted to look into the medical histories of t...

On Tuesday morning, a woman in Delhi brought her three little daughters - eight, four and two - to a hospital, where doctors declared them dead. How did they die, the police asked the mother. "Give me food first...I will talk," she mumbled, nearly collapsing.

With the increasing number of cases of swine flu, dengue, chikungunya and the deaths caused by them, it is high time to start taking aggressive precautions against such diseases.

Three persons have died in the past four days due to diarrhoea and at least a hundred are affected by it in Nagaland's Mon district.

Cholera is an infectious disease that causes severe watery diarrhoea, which can lead to dehydration and even death if untreated. It is caused by eating food or drinking water contaminated with a bacterium called Vibrio cholerae.

Between 2005 and 2015, the number of deaths due to diarrhoea decreased by 34.3 per cent among children younger than 5 years.

The death toll due to diarrhoea outbreak in six villages in Mathura has mounted to 14 after a four year-old girl died of the disease today, an official said.

A quarter of all global deaths of children under five are due to unhealthy or polluted environments including dirty water and air, second-hand smoke and a lack of adequate hygiene, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday.

Kuala Lampur: Sixty percent of the world’s 5.9 million children who died before their fifth birthday last year were in 10 countries in Asia and Africa, said a study, prompting calls for action to reduce the mortality. The study published in The Lancet medical journal said the latest data highlights the inequality in children’s death among the 1...

New Delhi: India has the highest number of Pneumonia and Diarrhoea deaths among children in the world, indicates a report. According to the Pneumonia and Diarropea Progress Report, about 2,96,279 (approx 3 lakh) children died of the two diseases in 2016. The report, released by International Vaccine Access Centre (IVAC) and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg ...

A yellow fever outbreak in Angola that began late last year has killed 158 people, up from 50 a month ago, as deaths from the disease transmitted by mosquitoes accelerate, a World Health Organisation official said today.

Sachin Tendulkar launched an UNICEF-International Cricket Council joint campaign for clean environment. He said all stakeholders shuld contribute in the effort

Deaths from infectious diseases like malaria, diarrhoea and pneumonia are likely to soar in West African countries where a vast outbreak of Ebola has crushed health systems and killed nurses and doctors.

Two people died and 43 admitted to the hospital with complain of nausea and diarrhoea after they allegedly drank contaminated water, officials said. The deceased include a 70-year-old man and a 50-year-old woman, officials said. The 45 villagers from various housing colonies in Kombakkam were admitted on Sunday after they allegedly drank water supp...

India's vaccination coverage to prevent rotavirus infection, a leading cause of severe diarrhoea in young children, was the lowest among the 15 countries which introduced it last year, a new report said Friday. It also pointed out that India lost over 2.6 lakh children under five years from pneumonia and diarrhoea in 2016.

Two inmates died at a shelter for women with mental disabilities in Bihar, their postmortem was also conducted at Patna Medical College, but the officials of the state-run facility didn't bother to inform the police. Two days after the police got to know about the incident this morning,a board was constituted to look into the medical histories of t...

On Tuesday morning, a woman in Delhi brought her three little daughters - eight, four and two - to a hospital, where doctors declared them dead. How did they die, the police asked the mother. "Give me food first...I will talk," she mumbled, nearly collapsing.

With the increasing number of cases of swine flu, dengue, chikungunya and the deaths caused by them, it is high time to start taking aggressive precautions against such diseases.

Three persons have died in the past four days due to diarrhoea and at least a hundred are affected by it in Nagaland's Mon district.

Cholera is an infectious disease that causes severe watery diarrhoea, which can lead to dehydration and even death if untreated. It is caused by eating food or drinking water contaminated with a bacterium called Vibrio cholerae.

Between 2005 and 2015, the number of deaths due to diarrhoea decreased by 34.3 per cent among children younger than 5 years.

The death toll due to diarrhoea outbreak in six villages in Mathura has mounted to 14 after a four year-old girl died of the disease today, an official said.

A quarter of all global deaths of children under five are due to unhealthy or polluted environments including dirty water and air, second-hand smoke and a lack of adequate hygiene, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday.

Kuala Lampur: Sixty percent of the world’s 5.9 million children who died before their fifth birthday last year were in 10 countries in Asia and Africa, said a study, prompting calls for action to reduce the mortality. The study published in The Lancet medical journal said the latest data highlights the inequality in children’s death among the 1...

New Delhi: India has the highest number of Pneumonia and Diarrhoea deaths among children in the world, indicates a report. According to the Pneumonia and Diarropea Progress Report, about 2,96,279 (approx 3 lakh) children died of the two diseases in 2016. The report, released by International Vaccine Access Centre (IVAC) and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg ...

A yellow fever outbreak in Angola that began late last year has killed 158 people, up from 50 a month ago, as deaths from the disease transmitted by mosquitoes accelerate, a World Health Organisation official said today.

Sachin Tendulkar launched an UNICEF-International Cricket Council joint campaign for clean environment. He said all stakeholders shuld contribute in the effort

Deaths from infectious diseases like malaria, diarrhoea and pneumonia are likely to soar in West African countries where a vast outbreak of Ebola has crushed health systems and killed nurses and doctors.

Two people died and 43 admitted to the hospital with complain of nausea and diarrhoea after they allegedly drank contaminated water, officials said. The deceased include a 70-year-old man and a 50-year-old woman, officials said. The 45 villagers from various housing colonies in Kombakkam were admitted on Sunday after they allegedly drank water supp...