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Chikungunya Virus Causes Chronic Joint Pain: Here’s How

Chikungunya Virus Causes Chronic Joint Pain: Here’s How

Highlights: Chikungunya virus infection causes severe chronic joint pain that lasts for months to years A newly developed reporter system can detect and isolate cells ...

Smartphone Enables Detection of Norovirus: Here’s How

Smartphone Enables Detection of Norovirus: Here’s How

Highlights: A smartphone device has been developed that can detect norovirus in contaminated water It uses antibody-tagged fluorescent polystyrene beads on a paper-based mi...

Novel Technique Eradicates Disease-causing Mosquitoes

Novel Technique Eradicates Disease-causing Mosquitoes

Highlights: Novel powerful technique utilizing a combination of radiation and Wolbachia bacteria has shown promising results in eradicating disease-causing mosquitoes that are normally d...

Over 20 Million Children Worldwide Missed Out on Lifesaving Vaccines in 2018

Over 20 Million Children Worldwide Missed Out on Lifesaving Vaccines in 2018

Highlights: Vaccines play a key role in preventing outbreaks and keeping the world safe Most children are being vaccinated, however, many are still left behind New data from WH...

Acute Encephalitis Syndrome in India: Could Litchi be the Culprit?

Acute Encephalitis Syndrome in India: Could Litchi be the Culprit?

Highlights: There is currently an outbreak of acute encephalitis syndrome (AES) that is ongoing in Bihar, India It has taken the lives of 133 children so far Toxins present...

Lyme Disease: Breakthrough Could Lead to Better Treatments

Lyme Disease: Breakthrough Could Lead to Better Treatments

Highlights: A new molecule called peptidoglycan has been identified in Lyme arthritis patients Peptidoglycan was present in the synovial fluid of affected joints of pa...

First Ever Platelet Donor Helpline in India

First Ever Platelet Donor Helpline in India

Highlights : An online platelet donor helpline has been launched by the mosquito repellent brand Godrej Hit in 2016 which now has over 1.5 lakh persons registered as pla...

Novel Compounds Identified That Overcome Resistance To Malarial Treatment

Novel Compounds Identified That Overcome Resistance To Malarial Treatment

Highlights : Novel drugs that combat resistance to malaria treatment can be designed by analyzing the changes within the malarial parasite causing resistance. Malaria ...

World Malaria Day: ‘Zero Malaria Starts With Me'

World Malaria Day: ‘Zero Malaria Starts With Me'

Highlights: World Malaria Day is observed on the 25th of April every year The main aim of the campaign is to provide education and understanding of malaria as a preventable...

Global Warming May Put 1 Billion People at Risk of Mosquito-borne Diseases

Global Warming May Put 1 Billion People at Risk of Mosquito-borne Diseases

Highlights : Over a billion of the world’s population is feared to be at risk of being newly exposed to mosquito-borne viral diseases such as dengue, Zika infection and...

Greenhouse Gas Emissions Could Spell Disaster for Mankind by 2100

Greenhouse Gas Emissions Could Spell Disaster for Mankind by 2100

Highlights: Greenhouse gas emissions can have a profound effect on climate change, which can have adverse effects on human health, food and water availability, infrastructure, security, ...

Anti-Malarial Drugs Can Treat Cancer: Here’s How

Anti-Malarial Drugs Can Treat Cancer: Here’s How

Highlights: Anti-malarial drugs such as chloroquine have been used for treating cancer for several decades. But the mechanism of action of these drugs for inhibiting cancer cells was not...

World Antibiotic Awareness Week: More Awareness – Need of the Hour!

World Antibiotic Awareness Week: More Awareness – Need of the Hour!

Highlights: World Antibiotic Awareness Week is observed from 12 th -18 th November and aims to create awareness about antibiotic resistance at the global level, so th...

Sniffer Dogs can Detect Malaria

Sniffer Dogs can Detect Malaria

Highlights: Sniffer dogs are able to identify whether a person has the malarial infection or not by smelling pieces of clothing worn by him/her The dogs were even able...

Mosquitoes Causing Dengue and Yellow Fever are Easily Identified With a New Analyzer

Mosquitoes Causing Dengue and Yellow Fever are Easily Identified With a New Analyzer

Highlights: Researchers have developed a new, rapid, cost-effective and easy-to-use diagnostic tool that uses a smartphone camera, a small 3D-printed box and a simple chemical test to ...

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