Two people died last week from a diarrhoea outbreak in Mbeere South, Embu county.

Twenty-two others have been treated for the condition.

Noroviruses, a group of viruses responsible for over 50 per cent of gastroenteritis or infectious diarrhea cases globally, can spread by air up to several metres from an infected person, a new stud

For over five years, the Social Justice Coalition in Cape Town has called for expanding access to safe and clean sanitation facilities in Khayelitsha and other townships in the city.

GURGAON: The Fortis hospital in Gurgaon has seen a string of unusual patients over the past fortnight - its own nurses. Some of them even had to be admitted in the hospital's ICU.

Acute diarrhoea is on the loose in the capital and its outskirts.

Ahead of the World Health Day on April 7, the World Health Organisation has urged India and south east Asian countries to make food safety a priority and put in place comprehensive food safety poli

Zanzibar — THE Zanzibar Ministry of Health has announced that at least 162 people mainly children have suffered bloody diarrhoea in the first 12 weeks of this month (March).

Deputy Director Clinical Services (Nutrition) in the Ministry of Health, Janet Guta has said that the newly updated version of the National Guidelines on Nutrition Care Support and Treatment (NCST)

According to a recent toll had revealed that the scare was hitting Malawi's borders more especially Mozambique borders.

According to the study, 42.2% of Indian women are underweight when they begin pregnancy, nearly seven percentage points higher than the figure of 35.5% cited in the National Family Health Survey-3