This representational image shows a person holding an HIV test tube. — Reuters/File Among latest cases is three-year-old girl from Metroville. Father says daughter’s health declined after treatment at hospital. Rs2bn set aside for treatment of kids infected with HIV at hospital. KARACHI: Two more children have tested positive for HIV, taking the total number…
A greater crested tern walks on a beach. — X/@kirola_hemant 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…
Severe floods in Mingora, Swat, Pakistan, damaged homes, leaving water, sand, and mud inside. Walls and roofs partially destroyed, August 15, 2025. — Alamy As contaminated floodwater gushed into their home in Buner, north-western Pakistan, Khalid (name changed) and his wife helped their three children up to higher ground. Amid the chaos, the couple had one…
Nishtar Hospital in Multan. — Facebook@Nishtar Hospital, Multan/File Suspended individuals directed not to leave station sans permission. HIV tests conducted on doctors and paramedical staff after incident. Punjab health minister says negligence in treatment intolerable. MULTAN: The Punjab government has suspended nine doctors and one nurse after a suspected HIV-positive patient underwent surgery without prior…
Airport Security Force (ASF) personnel stand guard at the Islamabad International Airport on April 18, 2018. — Reuters No Ebola case reported in Pakistan, neighbouring countries: ministry. Kamal says measures aimed at protecting public from epidemics. Says situation being monitored in coordination with WHO. ISLAMABAD: In light of the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) declaration of…
Medical Director of Mungwalu General Hospital Richard Lokudu speaks to Reuters next to the burned remains of a destroyed Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) emergency isolation tent. — Reuters Doctors operating on the front lines of the fight against Ebola in Congo, already grappling with shortages of basic supplies, are now also having to deal with…
Students from Ricards Lodge and Rutlish High Schools in Wimbledon look at their mobile phones during an interview and discussion with Reuters about their thoughts on a social media ban for under 16s, in London, Britain, February 23, 2026. — Reuters Social media ranks alongside smoking as a danger to children, senior British doctors said…
A nurse wearing protective medical clothing draws a dose from a vaccine vial during the launch of an Ebola trial vaccination campaign at Mulago Referral Hospital during a previous Ebola outbreak in Kampala, Uganda, on February 3, 2025. — AFP A vaccine against the Bundibugyo strain of the Ebola virus will be ready by the…
The World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, speaks to journalists upon his arrival in Bunia, in Ituri province, on May 30, 2026. — X/ @OMSRDCONGO The World Health Organisation (WHO) chief on Saturday called on communities in the centre of the Congo’s latest Ebola outbreak to play a central role in fighting the…
The cruise ship MV Hondius, affected by a hantavirus outbreak, leaves the port of Granadilla de Abona, in Tenerife, Spain, May 11, 2026.— Reuters/File A cruise ship which sparked a global health alert over a deadly outbreak of hantavirus was on Saturday cleared to put to sea again after cleaning and disinfection. “From a public…
