If the figures collected from public hospitals are to be believed, the BMC needs to seriously think of the increasing number of people being affected by diarrhoea in the city.
A strain of E. coli spreading across Europe is a previously unseen variant of the bacterium, and one that is more virulent than seen before, health officials say.
Scientists also said the new strain appeared likely to be resistant to common antibiotics.
By June 2, 18 people had died and more than 2,000 had become infected from eating contaminated vegetables.
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A large number of people have been hospitalised across the city after eating adulterated flour (kuttu ka atta) during Navratri. The patients had common complaints, including stomach ache, nausea, diarrhoea and fever.
Serum Institute of India and Bharat Biotech to develop and sell vaccines for pneumonia, diarrhea.
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will fund two Indian firms
Multinational pharmaceutical drug company MSD, the fully owned subsidiary of Merck & Co, on Wednesday launched a diarrhoea-prevention vaccine RotaTeq for infants and children in India.
RotaTeq is a pentavalent rotavirus vaccine that helps in preventing rotavirus gastroenteritis, a leading cause of severe and life threatening diarrhoea in young children.
