Waterborne Diseases

Waterborne diseases are spreading in Gaza due to a lack of clean water and rising temperatures, the United Nations humanitarian coordinator in Gaza said on Friday.

Waterborne diseases are particularly prevalent during the monsoon season and can increase the risk of infections. Follow these preventive tips.

The Odisha government has deployed medical teams in the districts, which have been flooded by incessant rain, to take measures to prevent waterborne diseases like diarrhoea, an official said on Saturday.

Summer Diseases: We discuss the 7 most common diseases you may be prone to during summer. Their causes and how to prevent them altogether.

In the aftermath of the floods in Kerala, a waterborne disease known leptospirosis or 'rat fever' has killed 12 people since August. Leptospirosis is transmitted in water containing infected urine from rodents and other animals. Rat fever rarely spreads from person to person and can be treated with common antibiotics. Kerala sees leptospirosis case...

Twelve people have died in Kerala since August, six of them in the last three days, due to the waterborne disease leptospirosis, locally known as 'rat fever'. The disease is not new to the state. Between January and July, Leptospirosis claimed 28 lives. But a spurt in the cases has been observed since the worst floods in a century hit the state on ...

Health experts say as the flood water recedes, Kerala may have to cope with waterborne and vectorborne diseases such as cholera, typhoid, malaria, hepatitis and other fevers.

Kerala floods: As Keralites are facing some massive floods, we take a look into the various diseases that they are prone to at this point of time. There is an increased risk of infection through water-borne and vector-borne diseases during floods.

Cholera is an infectious and bacterial disease which is spread because of consuming contaminated water or food prepared with contaminated water. Read to know all about this disease, which is quite likely to happen during monsoon.

Five persons have died of Japanese Encephalitis in the North Bengal Medical College (NBMC) Hospital in Siliguri in the past 24 hours, taking the total number of deaths in the state since January to 31, a senior official of the Health Department said today.

Twenty-four new cases of jaundice were confirmed on Wednesday in Odisha's Sambalpur town, pushing the total number of the waterborne disease in this district headquarters town to 1,547 since May.

A deadly, brain-eating amoeba has been found in the water supply of a Louisiana community near New Orleans, scaring residents and sending officials on the hunt for its source.

According to a new report from India

Waterborne diseases are spreading in Gaza due to a lack of clean water and rising temperatures, the United Nations humanitarian coordinator in Gaza said on Friday.

Waterborne diseases are particularly prevalent during the monsoon season and can increase the risk of infections. Follow these preventive tips.

The Odisha government has deployed medical teams in the districts, which have been flooded by incessant rain, to take measures to prevent waterborne diseases like diarrhoea, an official said on Saturday.

Summer Diseases: We discuss the 7 most common diseases you may be prone to during summer. Their causes and how to prevent them altogether.

In the aftermath of the floods in Kerala, a waterborne disease known leptospirosis or 'rat fever' has killed 12 people since August. Leptospirosis is transmitted in water containing infected urine from rodents and other animals. Rat fever rarely spreads from person to person and can be treated with common antibiotics. Kerala sees leptospirosis case...

Twelve people have died in Kerala since August, six of them in the last three days, due to the waterborne disease leptospirosis, locally known as 'rat fever'. The disease is not new to the state. Between January and July, Leptospirosis claimed 28 lives. But a spurt in the cases has been observed since the worst floods in a century hit the state on ...

Health experts say as the flood water recedes, Kerala may have to cope with waterborne and vectorborne diseases such as cholera, typhoid, malaria, hepatitis and other fevers.

Kerala floods: As Keralites are facing some massive floods, we take a look into the various diseases that they are prone to at this point of time. There is an increased risk of infection through water-borne and vector-borne diseases during floods.

Cholera is an infectious and bacterial disease which is spread because of consuming contaminated water or food prepared with contaminated water. Read to know all about this disease, which is quite likely to happen during monsoon.

Five persons have died of Japanese Encephalitis in the North Bengal Medical College (NBMC) Hospital in Siliguri in the past 24 hours, taking the total number of deaths in the state since January to 31, a senior official of the Health Department said today.

Twenty-four new cases of jaundice were confirmed on Wednesday in Odisha's Sambalpur town, pushing the total number of the waterborne disease in this district headquarters town to 1,547 since May.

A deadly, brain-eating amoeba has been found in the water supply of a Louisiana community near New Orleans, scaring residents and sending officials on the hunt for its source.

According to a new report from India