After a gap of three years, chikungunya, a viral disease spread by mosquitoes, has struck in a big way at a village in Kalka.

With six more persons succumbing to encephalitis, the death toll due to the viral disease in eastern Uttar Pradesh has climbed to 438 this year, health officials said on Friday.

With the season changing, city doctors are reporting about a 20 per cent rise in viral fever cases, including dengue and malaria, compared to the last month.

With reporting of 14 new dengue cases in Karachi during last two week, the threat of outbreak is on the horizon after recent monsoon showers.

DHAKA: Dengue, an infectious tropical viral fever, is alarmingly increasing in the capital city with the highest peak of 473 cases reported till August 11 this year since 2007, according to an expe

In what might be the greatest medical discovery since penicillin, scientists have developed a broad-spectrum drug which they claim can cure everything — from the common cold to HIV to almost any ot

Four persons of a single village have died due to diarrhea and viral fever spread since last one month in Sirdibas VDC in north Gorkha. Over a 100 others are taken ill.

Kohima: Japanese Encephalitis (JE), that killed over a hundred people in Assam, has now entered Dimapur where two cases have been detected.