Is Varanasi heading towards epidemics? So far, overflowing sewage, heaps of dumped garbage, contaminated water supply through taps were hinting this situation.

Signaling a possible epidemic, the Health Ministry yesterday said that 11 Lankans had tested positive for Influenza A (H1N1) over a period of one month.

With rising number of testing centres for HIV+ patients in the state, district Burhanpur has emerged on the lines of districts Indore, Ujjain, Neemuch and Ratlam, which have a dense population of H

It's been three years since a polio case was last reported from Uttar Pradesh.

Experts, though, deem it premature to call it a recurrence of an epidemic

With two cases of swine flu reported in West Bengal recently, concerns have been raised over a possible recurrence since a two-and-a-half-year hiatus.
Officials of the State’s Department of Health and Family Welfare, though, said on Sunday that it was “too premature” to comment on whether the threat of another swine flu epidemic loomed.

Researchers have developed a model that allows malaria epidemics in arid northwest India to be predicted four months in advance, helping authorities prepare for them much earlier than before.

110 deaths since January; 148 since April 2012; 586 since 2009

The Rajasthan Government on Monday cautioned about rising incidence of swine flu (H1N1) in the State and sought Central assistance even as the Bharatiya Janata Party accused the Government of not being serious about addressing the epidemic-like situation. The virus has claimed over 110 lives in the State this year while 148 people have died of the disease since April 2012. Since 2009, when the epidemic first broke out in the state, a total of 586 people have succumbed to the disease.

494 Cases Reported In North India

New Delhi: North India suddenly finds itself facing a sharp upsurge of swine flu cases, with the virus having claimed 95 lives in just four states of the region so far this year. As per health ministry data, 64 people have died due to H1N1 influenza in Rajasthan while 18 deaths have been reported from Haryana, 10 from Punjab and three in Delhi till Wednesday. As many as 494 cases have come to light in these states in the

New Delhi: H1N1 influenza is back to haunt Delhi after three years. The disease, which gained epidemic proportions in 2009, has claimed three lives so far this year. At least 57 people have taken ill this time around, according to government data.

Path labs and hospitals say there is a sudden increase in the number of patients seeking blood tests and treatment for the disease, characterized
by a sore throat, body ache and upper respiratory infection among other symptoms.

The flu season has been hitting hard this winter all across the country with nearly 30 states reporting flulike activity and over 2,200 people being hospitalized according to government health expe