Tag: IEDCR
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Tragic deaths of Rajshahi siblings: IEDCR did not confirm Nipah virus infection
The father of both the children, Manzoor Hussain, is a mathematics teacher at Rajshahi Cadet College. He lives with his family in the Cadet College Quarters. He is from Chuniyapara village of Durgapur upazila of Rajshahi. The younger daughter developed fever on Wednesday morning and died while being taken to the hospital in the afternoon.…
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WHO’s 50-year journey: Impact on the health sector of Bangladesh
MD Abul Foyez, former director general of the Directorate General of Health Services and former dean of Dhaka Medical College Hospital, affiliated with WHO in 1981. He has so far visited WHO headquarters 52 times at different times for various works. He has experience of working as an advisor and consultant on several committees of…
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Insecticide-resistant Aedes mosquitoes found in Dhaka: Study
The Plant Protection Wing of the Agricultural Extension Department approves various mosquito repellents and insecticides to be used in homes, but these products were sent to the IEDCR to test their efficacy. IEDCR Director General Professor Tehmina Shireen told Prothom Alo, “We check the efficacy of the products sent by the Plant Protection Wing. It…
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Dengue: IEDCR blames lack of awareness, late hospitalization for more deaths
Dengue: IEDCR blames lack of awareness, late hospitalization for more deaths
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With the increase in the number of dengue patients, the saline crisis is looming
The BSMMU authority has opened a dengue ward on the second floor of F block of the hospital. On Thursday, when I went to the ward, I saw that almost all the patients had cannulas for veins in their hands. Speaking in this regard, Professor Salahuddin Shah, Head of the Department of Hematology, BSMMU, said,…
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Bangladesh has reported two new deaths from Nipah virus
According to Professor Mohammad Najmul Islam, director of the DGHS’s infectious disease control branch, cases of the virus have been reported in Rajbari, Naugaon, Rajshahi, Shariatpur, Pabna and Dhaka districts this year. Dr Najmul believes there is no need to panic, but stresses the need to proceed with ‘extreme caution’. “There is no vaccine for…
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Chinese traveler tests positive for Omicron subvariant in Bangladesh
One of the four Chinese air travelers who arrived in Bangladesh five days ago has tested positive for the BF.7 subvariant of the Omicron strain of COVID-19. According to the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR), the subvariant was discovered in a “genome sequence report” on a Chinese citizen. IEDCR director Dr. Tehmina…
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Omicron BF.7 found in Bangladesh: IEDCR
Speaking to Prothom Allo, IEDCR Director Professor Tehmina Shirin said that they have detected the presence of a new sub-variant of Omicron, BF.7, in the bodies of four Chinese nationals. Earlier on December 26, corona virus was found in the dead bodies of four Chinese nationals who came from China at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport.…
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Bird influenza in 6 city markets
The H5N1 aria of bird influenza has influenced 6 ornithology markets in a collateral recently. Over a final fifteen days, 3 workers from a single of a markets have been diagnosed with a flu. However, they have recovered. The Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control as great as Research (IEDCR) as great as International Centre for…
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IEDCR claims, Nipah under control
Two people, including a 12-year-old boy, died of encephalitis in Rangpur Medical College Hospital Thursday afternoon, hospital sources said. But doctors and acreage workers of the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Ascendancy and Research, said the affection did not advance the latest two deaths were acquired by nipah virus. IEDCR accepted afterlife of 17 patients out…