Disease

Disease

HMPV: Medical team deployed at Hili checkpost

Following instructions from the health ministry, a medical team, led by Md Jahangir Alam, a sub-assistant community medical officer from the upazila health complex, initiated its activities

2d ago

HMPV virus: Passengers urged to wear masks at Dhaka airport

The directives were issued one day after a case of HMPV virus was detected in the country

2d ago

One dies of dengue

57 hospitalised in the last 24 hours

4d ago

HMPV detected in Bangladesh

30-yr-old from Kishoreganj undergoing treatment

4d ago

Airborne superbugs lurk in Dhaka hospitals

Amid the bustling corridors of Dhaka’s hospitals, an invisible danger wafts silently through the air -- drug-resistant bacteria.

4d ago

1 more dies of dengue

At least one dengue patient died while 57 patients were hospitalised in the last 24 hours till yesterday morning.

4d ago

Cancer patients cut off from vital lifeline

All six radiotherapy machines of the NICRH have been out of order for 19 days, depriving over 200 cancer patients of their scheduled therapy every day.

5d ago

Five Reovirus cases found for 1st time in Bangladesh

The Institute of Epidemiology Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) has found the presence of reovirus for the first time in Bangladesh.

5d ago

Dengue death toll crosses 300-mark

The death toll from dengue this year has crossed the 300-mark as another 10 new deaths were reported in the last 24 hours till 8:00am today

1y ago

Dengue Outbreak: Shishu Hospital having to turn away patients

Three-year-old Omar Faruk was having seizures when his father Enamul Haque brought him to Bangladesh Shishu Hospital around 2:30pm yesterday.

1y ago

10 die of dengue in 24 hrs

At least 10 dengue patients died, eight of which in Dhaka city, in the last 24 hours till this morning

1y ago

Dengue Outbreak: 2023 already the deadliest year

With 10 new deaths recorded yesterday, the total number of dengue fatalities this year has risen to 283 – making this the deadliest dengue year since the first outbreak in the year 2000.

1y ago

Dengue death toll now 283, highest in 23 years

At least 10 dengue patients died across the country in the last 24 hours till this morning

1y ago

Intermittent rain to worsen dengue situation

The ongoing intermittent rain, particularly in Dhaka, will worsen the dengue situation if the authorities fail to take the necessary steps to kill adult mosquitoes and destroy all breeding sources, entomologists said.

1y ago

12 die of dengue in 24 hrs, 27,11 hospitalised

All the deaths were reported in Dhaka

1y ago

Dengue: 10 more die, 2,584 hospitalised in a day

Ten more dengue patients have died and 2,584 others have been hospitalised in 24 hours preceding this morning

1y ago

Dengue Outbreak: Delay in test reports as patients swarm labs

Asma Begum took her five-year-old son and a 12-year-old relative, both suffering from fever, to get their NS1 and CBC tests, required to determine dengue, at Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital, as per doctor’s advice, on Thursday.

1y ago

47 Covid cases recorded in 24 hrs

Bangladesh reported 47 more Covid-19 cases in the 24 hours till this morning

1y ago