epidemic

epidemic

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Misinformation spreading like an 'epidemic', warn speakers at PIB seminar

PIB Director General Faruk Wasif says social media algorithms are reinforcing user bias and deepening divisions

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Cox's Bazar at risk of Dengue epidemic

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WHO plans to eliminate bacterial meningitis epidemics by 2030

Mucormycosis is a fungal infection with a fatality rate of at least 50%.(PTI)

West Bengal declares Black Fungus as 'notifiable disease' amid rise in cases

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India's Centre urges to make Mucormycosis a notifiable disease under epidemic act

Children are used to fill up empty cigarettes manually with locally grown tobacco at a factory in Rangpur, Bangladesh. PHOTO: Reuters

Is Bangladesh ready to control a tobacco epidemic?

Apurba Mogumder. Illustration: TBS

An epidemic of job scams and the barriers to legal recourse

Sourav Banerjee.

The twin battle against the epidemic and infodemic

Nipah virus poses epidemic threat

Nipah virus poses epidemic threat

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UNICEF, WHO call for urgent action to avert measles, polio epidemics

Illustrations depicting smallpox from the Imperially Commissioned Golden Mirror of Medical Learning, published in 1742. Illustration: Foreign Policy/Austrian national library

Empire’s little helper

Domestic violence: a silent epidemic thrives amid the shutdown

Domestic violence: a silent epidemic thrives amid the shutdown

Line of people awaiting a New Jersey Influenza vaccination, also known as the Swine Flu back in 1976. Photo: CDC

How we lost our collective memory of epidemics