Tag: #epidemic
Articles tagged with #epidemic
Medicine on the move
The Asia-Pacific Travel Health Conference in Kathmandu to discuss disease dynamics in an interconnected world
Nepal’s other pandemic: cancer
Uma Kumari Sah with her grandmother.It started with persistent skin allergy for 15-year-old Uma Kumari Sah. She got a checkup at a leprosy…
Learning from HIV to fight Covid-19 in Nepal
Photo: BIKRAM RAIWhen Lalbahadur Shah of Birganj died last week, none of his relatives showed up for his funeral even though he tested negative…
Viruses past, present and future
Nepal’s history shows that nature matters in dealing with epidemics but, social differences do, too
Ke garne attitude kills people
Epidemics are nothing new in Nepal. In fact, the country’s history is littered with references to frequent outbreaks of cholera, influenza,…
"Prisons can be incubators for COVID-19"
Nepali Times spoke to Barun Mathema, professor of epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University in New York about…
Remembering a pandemic 100 years ago
There are important lessons for the Subcontinent from the 1918 Spanish Flu outbreak
Nepal quarantines passengers on Singapore flight
Silk Air flight to Kathmandu from Singapore.All 85 passengers from a Silk Air flight from Singapore carrying a Dutch national of Nepali origin…
What is novel about the novel coronavirus?
Everything you want to know about COVID-19 and the threat it poses to Nepal
This is a test
A quarantine zone at Nepal Army's headquarters in Tundikhel. Photo: BIKRAM RAIBy now the novel coronavirus pandemic has affected every corner of…
Nepali students abroad in pandemic limbo
As universities close due to COVID-19, students from Nepal face uncertainty about their future
Nepal’s economy, already weak, takes direct hit
Photo: BIKRAM RAIWith business coming to a grinding halt globally due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Nepal’s migration and tourism-based economy is…
FEAR GOES VIRAL
Visitors arriving at Tribhuvan International Airport. Photo: BIKRAM RAIThe COVID-19 epidemic is subsiding in China where it originated, and is…
Crossborder virus and Nepali migrant workers
The COVID-19 epidemic has hit countries where millions of Nepalis work
The climate connection to Covid-19
Photo: BIKRAM RAIThe Covid-19 epidemic has now spread beyond China, and is being transmitted even by infected individuals who are…
When panic goes viral
Nepali students on their way to the quarantine centre in Bhaktapur after landing in Kathmandu Airport on Sunday morning. Photo: RSSThe global…
A Nepali in Beijing during coronavirus scare
Peking University campus on the 26th of January. Photo: MADISON PLASTERFor the past week, I have been in a voluntary lockdown in Beijing because…
HISSS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3Cvph_7Sjc&feature=youtu.beLike every monsoon, this year has also seen a spike in snakebite deaths across the…