During 2018-2024, there were 3,955 cases of cVDPV polio globally, averaging 565 cases per year. As on September 17, 2025, 143 cVDPV cases have been reported this year. In 2023, five polio cases in east Afghanistan were in children who had received 16 to 28 OPV doses.
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Tamil Nadu’s differentiated TB care initiative — Tamil Nadu Kasanoi Erappila Thittam (TN-KET) or TB death-free initiative — was launched for the first time in India in April 2022 to reduce TB deaths. In just six months after launch, early deaths reduced by 20% and overall deaths reduced by 10% at the State level; in 2024, over two-thirds of the districts documented at least 20-30% reduction in TB death rate. The reason: the novel initiative is driven by operational research
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A study suggests that a viral infection such as influenza and SARS/CoV-2 can set off an inflammatory cascade that “wakes up” the sleeping cancer cells located in distant organs such as lungs and bone marrow, leading them to proliferate
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At a time when 99 polio cases were reported in Pakistan and Afghanistan last year and 18 cases as of July 15, 2025, and 297 circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) cases were reported last year, with the majority of them being from six countries, the decision to wind down the polio surveillance programme in India would undo the hard-gained achievement
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Genetic sequences of Nipah virus must be shared in public databases quickly The case of a 42-year-old woman in Kerala
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With the May 8, 2025 outbreak, there have been three Nipah outbreaks in Malappuram district On May 8, 2025 a new
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As of March 20, the total number of cases reported across the U.S. stands at 378, with Texas and New
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WHO recommends the influenza strains to be used in the vaccine for the coming flu seasons months in advance based
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A preliminary study has found that efavirenz — a non-nucleoside inhibitor of HIV virus that is used for treating HIV/AIDS — can be
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Compared with the corresponding period last year, the total TB notifications across India increased by only 44,585 and not over
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The Central TB Division informed the States in end-January this year to “consider utilising” the DeepCXR tool only when the
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Genomic and epidemiologic data suggest that the rapid spread of mpox clade Ib in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Moderate rainfall spread over the entire duration of the summer monsoon season led to increased dengue deaths in Pune compared
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