Tag: #infectious diseases
Articles tagged with #infectious diseases
New dengue outbreak likely this monsoon
Last year’s dengue virus is in mosquito larvae, ready to spread when the rains come
3rd Covid wave infects Nepal’s frontliners
Crowd of people lining up for Covid vaccination outside Teku Hospital on Tuesday. Photos: AMIT MACHAMASIDuring the devastating second wave last…
“I’m sad vaccines are delayed in Nepal”
Photos: AMIT MACHAMASIThe Covid-19 pandemic has already claimed the lives of 3.5 million people, worldwide, according to the World Health…
Nepal’s virus vortex
A woman with her mask down walks by Sneha Shrestha mural in Pimbahal, Patan this week. Photo: BIKRAM RAI Five months after the first COVID-19…
Children are collateral damage in Nepal lockdown
Photo: GOPEN RAIOn Friday, it will be four months since Nepal closed the country down to prevent the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the virus strain that…
Prevention while searching for a cure
Hand-washing and masks will help Nepal cope with infectious diseases that pre-date COVID-19
Remembering a pandemic 100 years ago
There are important lessons for the Subcontinent from the 1918 Spanish Flu outbreak
Coronavirus outbreak may curb wildlife trafficking
Pangolin that escaped from a community forest in Sankhuwasaba district in June 2019 rolls into its scales for safety before being released back…
Why Nepal must watch Coronavirus, but not panic
The worldwide spread of the Wuhan coronavirus as of 31 January 2020.The ongoing outbreak of the 2019 novel coronavirus in China, also called the…
A shot in the arm for vaccines in Nepal
Photo : UNICEFLast month, the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine published a study of the successful trial of a new typhoid vaccine…
For Nepal, a game-changer in TB control
TB OR NOT TB: Birat Nepal Medical Trust team in Hetauda on Wednesdady used the Holi festival to raise awareness about tuberculosis in Nepal.…
TB or not TB
Bikram RaiNeglect by Nepal's rulers of the poor, the disenfranchised and marginalised has been a given throughout our history. Royal or…