Health - Geo News https://www.geo.tv/ Latest Health news and updates from Geo.tv Thu, 21 May 2026 09:47:36 +05:00 en-US <![CDATA[EU says risk of Ebola infection in the bloc is 'very low']]> ]]> <![CDATA[WHO worried about 'scale and speed' of deadly Ebola outbreak]]> ]]> KINSHASA: The World Health Organisation chief voiced concern on Tuesday about the "scale and...]]> <![CDATA[WHO declares international emergency as Ebola outbreak kills more than 80 in DR Congo]]> ]]> <![CDATA[Portrait of a killer: The deadly virus that refuses to die — Ebola's 50-year reign of death]]> ]]> Ebola, which has killed more than 80 people in a fresh outbreak in the...]]> <![CDATA[No vaccine for latest Ebola outbreak, warns DRC as toll hits 80]]> ]]> An Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo that has caused at least 80 deaths has a "very high lethality rate" and no vaccine or specific treatment, the...]]> <![CDATA[Bilawal inaugurates health initiatives including air ambulance service in Balochistan]]> ]]> <![CDATA[Harmless medicines? Indian pharma fuels Africa's 'zombie drug' and opioid crisis]]> ]]> NEW DELHI: They come in blister packs of 10 like any normal painkiller, and you can buy them easily in roadside kiosks and street pharmacies...]]> <![CDATA[WHO says eight passengers tested positive for hantavirus ]]> ]]> GENEVA: Eight people infected in the hantavirus outbreak aboard the MV Hondius cruise ship have tested positive for the Andes virus, the only strain transmitted...]]> <![CDATA[WHO chief says 'work not over' after hantavirus evacuation]]> ]]> World Health Organisation chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Tuesday "our work is not over" to contain hantavirus after evacuations from a cruise ship hit by a deadly...]]> <![CDATA[What if we killed all mosquitoes?]]> ]]> The deadliest animals are not lions, spiders or snakes, but the tiny mosquitoes that suck our blood, make us itchy and infect us with disease.

Mosquitoes kill around 760,000 people every...]]> <![CDATA[Hantavirus: Confirmed cases by nationality]]> ]]> <![CDATA[US, French nationals from hantavirus ship test positive]]> ]]> An American national and a French woman evacuated from the cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak have tested positive,...]]> <![CDATA[Evacuation of hantavirus-hit ship begins in Canary Islands]]> ]]> Occupants of a cruise ship struck by a deadly hantavirus outbreak...]]> <![CDATA[European states to send planes to evacuate citizens from hantavirus-hit cruise ship]]> ]]> Germany, France, Belgium, Ireland, and the...]]> <![CDATA[Hantavirus outbreak risk to public 'absolutely low': WHO]]> ]]> <![CDATA[Child deaths mount from Bangladesh measles outbreak]]> ]]> DHAKA: Bangladesh's deadliest measles outbreak in decades is stretching its health system, with children filling hospital wards and doctors...]]> <![CDATA[WHO warns of more hantavirus cases in 'limited' outbreak]]> ]]> The World Health Organisation said Thursday that more hantavirus cases could emerge after the disease killed three passengers from a cruise ship, but it expected the outbreak to...]]> <![CDATA[WHO says now five confirmed cruise ship hantavirus cases]]> ]]> The World Health Organisation said on Thursday there were...]]> <![CDATA[Hantavirus outbreak not like start of Covid pandemic: WHO chief]]> ]]> GENEVA: The WHO chief told AFP on Wednesday he did not believe a deadly...]]> <![CDATA[Around 20,000 HIV patients untraceable after starting treatment, NA committee told]]> ]]>