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Japan issues level-one alert after detecting first case of monkeypox

Japan has issued a level-one alert against monkeypox as the first case was detected in the country

Top Headlines: India working on monkeypox test kit; IDBI Bank divestment

Pakistan ramped up its imports from India despite Islamabad's ban on trade with its eastern neighbour in the April-May period. Read more on this in our top headlines

Delhi's monkeypox patient doing fine, says report; L-G urges not to panic

Fourteen contacts of the patient have been traced and none of them have shown any symptoms. Of the 14 contacts, four are his family members, who are in isolation at their west Delhi residence

No need to be afraid of monkeypox, those infected stable now: Kerala min

There is nothing to be concerned or worried about monkeypox as testing and surveillance have been intensified across the state, Kerala Health Minister Veena George said

Samples from Telangana's first suspected Monkeypox case sent to NIV

Samples collected from a man with suspected symptoms of Monkeypox were sent to the National Institute of Virology (NIV) Pune

Data story: India logs 16,866 new cases, active infections see net decline

India has added 138,087 cases in the past 7 days

WHO declares monkeypox a global health emergency; here's what it means

As of July 22, there have been 16,593 confirmed infections in 68 countries that have not historically reported monkeypox. Most infections have been reported from Europe

Delhi man tests positive for monkeypox, becomes India's 4th case of virus

A 34-year-old man from the national capital with no history of foreign travel has tested positive for monkeypox virus, official sources said on Sunday

IIT-Kanpur to aid startups engaged in health and agriculture domains

Startup Incubation and Innovation Centre, the technology business incubator at IIT Kanpur, is launching the NIRMAN Accelerator Programme, supported by the Department of Science and Technology

US may face more monkeypox cases before numbers go down: CDC chief

"With the scale-up of testing, with the scale-up of information, we anticipate that there will be more cases before there are less," Xinhua news agency quoted Walensky as saying to The Washington Post

Third case of monkeypox virus reported from Kerala, UAE returnee infected

A 35 year-old man, who came to Kerala from UAE earlier this month, has tested positive for monkeypox, making him the third case of the virus from the country as well as the state

Lack of treatment options for long Covid create hype for unproven therapies

A recent investigation published by the British Medical Journal revealed that long COVID patients are travelling abroad to seek expensive blood washing treatment

Monkeypox may soon become entrenched as new STD in US after HIV: Experts

Though some health officials say the virus that causes pimple-like bumps might yet be contained before it gets firmly established

Malaysia reports 4,587 new Covid infections, 10 deaths, 2,652 recoveries

Malaysia recorded 4,587 new Covid-19 infections, bringing the total tally to 4,640,235, according to the Health Ministry

Data story: India logs 21,880 new Covid cases, death toll reaches 525,930

India has added 137,038 cases in the past 7 days

New York reports 1st US polio case in nearly a decade in unvaccinated adult

An unvaccinated young adult from New York recently contracted polio, the first US case in nearly a decade, health officials said

Transgenders in UP to get access to govt-run old age home facility

In a laudable gesture, the Yogi Adityanath government has decided to allow transgenders to avail the facility of old age homes run by the government

Data story: India logs 20,557 cases, 2,603 deaths as Punjab clears backlog

India has added 133,769 cases in the past 7 days

7 dead, many infected amid Cholera outbreak in Odisha's Rayagada district

Seven people have died of cholera and about 100 others have been affected by the water-borne disease in Kashipur block in Odisha's Rayagada district, an official said on Tuesday. This was revealed by Rayagada District Collector Swadha Dev Singh based on a report of the ICMR's Regional Medical Research Centre (RMRC), Bhubaneswar. Though initially, we were suspecting it to be diarrhoea, later it came to the fore that people might have been infected to cholera also. They collapsed because they could not get the proper medical attention at the due time, Singh told PTI over phone. She said now the administration is focusing on early identification of cases based on the symptoms so that they can be provided medical attention immediately. Official sources said that three out of the nine samples of rectal swabs of patients in the district were found to have presence of the Vibrio cholerae bacteria. The Vibrio cholerae bacteria were found in the faeces of three patients from Dudukabahal ..

UK buys more vaccines for monkeypox as cases top 2,100, mostly in London

British has bought another 100,000 doses of vaccine to stop monkeypox as the number of cases across the country has risen to more than 2,130, the majority of them in London