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- DoE urges city dwellers to wear face masks
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hMPV virus: CAAB urges all to wear masks at Dhaka airport
The Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB) has issued directives to implement precautionary measures against the spread of Human Metapneumovirus (hMPV) at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka. The directives were issued one day after a case of hMPV virus was detected in the...
IEDCR detects Reovirus in Bangladesh
For the first time in Bangladesh, the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control, and Research (IEDCR) has detected the Reovirus in the bodies of five individuals. This discovery came after testing patients with Nipah virus symptoms in 2024, IEDCR Director Professor Tahmina Shirin told UNB on...
How threatening is the new virus?
A new alarm has been raised over the HMPV (Human Metapneumovirus) that emerged in China at the start of the year. Meanwhile, patients infected with this virus have been identified in Japan, Malaysia, and India. Experts have commented that there is no need to panic about this virus in Bangladesh....
WHO urges China to share Covid-19 origins data
The World Health Organization has urged China to share data to help understand the origins of Covid-19, five years on from the start of the pandemic in the Chinese city of Wuhan. On December 31, 2019, the WHOs China office noted a cluster of pneumonia cases in a statement from health authorities...
Norovirus cases are surging in parts of the US
Cases of a wretched stomach bug are surging in parts of the United States this winter, according to government data, reports AP. The most recent numbers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show there were 91 outbreaks of norovirus reported during the week of Dec. 5, up from...
Respiratory illness season intensifies, children at risk
Despite a relatively slow start to respiratory disease season, low vaccination rates threaten that trend and the rapid rise of some illnesses is already putting children at increased risk. Overall, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention predicts that this season could be similar or...
8 Zika virus cases reported in Dhaka over three months
Eight cases of Zika virus have been reported in Dhaka over the past three months, as confirmed by Professor Tahmina Shirin, Director of the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control Research (IEDCR), in a statement to The Business Standard. She said, the patients are now healthy. All the...