Health

New Zealand has detected the first case of H5 bird flu, after a migratory seabird was found on a beach in Wellington, officials said Wednesday. H5 bird flu has caused severe disease and high death rates in poultry and wild birds worldwide. “New Zealanders are being asked to be alert after a single ocean-going seabird, a brown skua, returned a ...

Around one in every 13 Bangladeshi women experiences menopause before the age of 45, according to the largest multi-country study led by researchers at the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b). Published last week in BMJ Global Health, the study analysed health data from 716,648 women aged 30 to 49 years across 44 low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). ...

Measles-like symptoms have claimed two more children’s lives in Bangladesh’s Sylhet Division. The children died while undergoing treatment between Monday morning and Tuesday morning, said Mohammad Nur-e-Alam Shamim, assistant director of the Sylhet Directorate General of Health Services. They were being treated at Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital and Shahid Shamsuddin Ahmed Hospital.

Health and Family Welfare Minister Sardar Md Sakhawat Hossain on Monday said the government has cancelled the leave of health workers in flood-hit districts and taken the highest level of preparedness to ensure uninterrupted healthcare services for affected people. “The leave of health workers in the flood-affected areas has been cancelled so that they remain on duty in the field. ...

Health and Family Welfare Minister Sardar Md Sakhawat Husain on Monday said Ad-din Hospital has applied for a fresh inspection after claiming to have implemented the recommendations made by the authorities following the deaths of six newborns. Responding to questions from journalists, the minister said the government took action against the hospital only after the six infant deaths and rejected ...

Five new children deaths have been recorded with measles like symptoms across the country in the last 24 hours. 696 more were found with measles like symptoms during this period. The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) disclosed this information in its regular report on measles on Sunday (July 12). The DGHS stated that four people died with symptoms of ...

The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) has issued special emergency directives at the field level to tackle the country’s flood situation and ensure emergency healthcare services in the affected areas. The directives were sent on Saturday to all divisional health directors, civil surgeons and upazila health officials across the country through a letter signed by Abu Hossain Md Moinul ...

Feeling tipsy without touching a drop? It might sound like the start of a joke, but for some people, getting drunk without drinking is a very real – and rather baffling – condition. Welcome to the strange world of auto-brewery syndrome, where your own body turns bread and pasta into booze. What is auto-brewery syndrome? Imagine this: you’re completely sober, ...

Three children died from measles-like symptoms in the 24 hours till 8am on Friday morning, and no death from confirmed measles was reported, said the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). With the latest three fatalities the total death toll among children from confirmed and suspected measles cases has hit 750 in just about four months. During 8am Thursday-8am Friday, ...

Australia on Friday confirmed the first case of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus in a native seabird, marking a new phase in the disease’s spread after it landed on the country’s shores last month. Laboratory testing by Australia’s national science agency confirmed the case in a greater crested tern found in the South Australian coastal town of Robe, Agriculture ...