Soumya Shraddhya Paul, Amity University Noida On Saturday, WHO official Alfred Ki-Zerbo declared the end of the current Ebola epidemic. After Guinea defeated the second Ebola outbreak that erupted in the West African states on February 14th, 2021 which infected around 16 people and claimed the life of 12, the second wave is reported to […]
Samreek Bhatta, Delhi Public School, Megacity, Kolkata Purpose of World Food Safety Day: World Food Safety Day (WFSD) celebrated on the 7th of June each year, aims at drawing attention and encouraging people to take action to facilitate the reduction, prevention, and detection of foodborne risks, that contribute to food security, human health, sustainable development, […]
Anannya Roy, Amity University Kolkata World Malaria Day (WMD) is celebrated every year on the 25th of April and it is a global effort to control the spread of Malaria. This day began to be officially observed in the year 2007 by the 60th session of the World Health Assembly, which serves as the WHO’s […]
Anuska Sen, Team BioXone The World Tuberculosis (TB) Day is commemorated on the 24th of April each year by the World Health Organization (WHO). This day is observed to spread public awareness about the life-threatening outcomes of tuberculosis disease and the need to adopt various methods to end the worldwide occurrence of TB. On the […]
Husna, Amity University Kolkata A psychiatric disorder is a mental illness that greatly disturbs an individual’s thinking, moods, or behavior and can even seriously increase the risk of disability, pain, and death. Studies have shown that negative emotions, along with psychiatric disorders and depression can increase the risk of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) incidences and even […]
Thota Kanishka Rao, Amity University Kolkata A pregnant Singaporean woman, infected by the coronavirus gave birth to a baby with antibodies against the virus, giving insight to the fact if the virus can be transformed from mother to child. The women’s doctors suspect that the mother, who got infected by the by the virus during […]
Richismita Hazra, Amity University Kolkata Brucella is small, Gram-negative, non-motile, unencapsulated coccobacilli. Among six different species with varying biotypes, four cause human diseases: Brucella abortus, B. melitensis, B. suis and B. canis generally causes human infection. Approximately half a million cases of human brucellosis are reported each year which is estimated to be 10-25% less than the real number according to […]
Camelia Bhattacharyya, Amity University Kolkata The pandemic, that is, the COVID-19 pandemic hit the world all of a sudden, changing infection rates or rather increasing it every day without leaving the world to think of the ways to fight with the unknown enemy, the virus. This created a lot of panic at the beginning of […]
Samrat Sarkar, Amity University Kolkata On this point when the entire world is on its way to find a way out to find a solution of the CORONA virus, scientists came up with an idea of ‘Herd Immunity’ theory which according to them would have been a big hit but on the other way WHO’s […]
Ritwika Chowdhury, Team BioXone In today’s times, infections and casualties have become synonymous to the pandemic. People are scared to step out of their houses, if not for an emergency. In such a situation another rising problem that is taking shape gradually is the vision impairment.The WHO theme for World Sight Day 2020 is “hope […]
