Nipah virus: will it start the new pandemic? | The Express Tribune
A few weeks ago, the Punjab Department of Health suddenly issued a health advisory for a possible Nipah virus infection in Pakistan. While I was trying to find the reasons for this alert, one after another, provincial departments of health started to issue similar alerts, creating some panic among the population. TV channels and YouTube […]
Nipah virus is deadly — but smart policy changes can help quell pandemic risk
Nipah, a deadly RNA virus that can spill over from bats to humans, has infected six people and killed two in the Indian state of Kerala since August. The virus can cause encephalitis — inflammation of the brain — which manifests as fever, headaches, vomiting and respiratory distress. It has a fatality rate of 40–75%, […]
Crab exports recovering from pandemic loss
Star Business Report Fri Aug 18, 2023 12:00 AM Last update on: Fri Aug 18, 2023 04:47 AM Workers at a fishery in Pankhali union of Dakop upazila in Khulna are seen using traps to catch crabs from their enclosure. Crab exports rebounded in fiscal 2022-23 as outgoing shipments now comply with the regulations of […]
Born out of the pandemic, online fish stores continue to thrive
More than 15 online shops that offer processed fish of all kinds, sell 50-200 kg of fish every day, with lakhs in turnover every month 17 July, 2023, 08:45 am Last modified: 17 July, 2023, 09:24 am Although Sanzana Haque Rita loves the taste of our local small fishes, she barely gets to have them […]
Are we ready for next pandemic?
We live in a world where the risks of pandemics – particularly with zoonotic origins – are growing, driven by climate change, deforestation, changing land use patterns, food systems, water shortages, and urbanization. As the WHO has warned, the question is not if there will be another pandemic, it’s when. Almost seven million people worldwide […]
Measures needed to end the ongoing cholera pandemic
A pandemic emerges. It spreads around the world, claims lives and devastates economies for decades. Climate change makes it even deadlier. It infects hundreds of millions of people and kills millions, especially in areas with limited resources. Is this a future scenario? A tabletop exercise? No. It’s cholera today, a pandemic that has been circulating […]
How schools in Bangladesh emerged as more resilient after the COVID-19 pandemic?
The CSSR project helped strengthen the school system’s institutional capacity to respond to and recover from the COVID-19 crisis and build resilience to face future crises from pre-primary to secondary levels. It helped around 3.26 million children, including 1.69 million girls continue education through distance learning programs. The project also helped develop more than 5,000 […]
The world’s bat lands are under attack, seeding risk of a new pandemic. Here’s where.
After Faatey died, his cousin and three friends went to the hospital and carried his body to the mortuary. “When I went to see him, I couldn’t recognise him,” Boamah Sonkaa, one of the friends, told Reuters. “Our brother’s death was terrifying.” Once doctors knew of the lab result confirming Marburg, they told Faatey’s friends […]
How a deadly bat virus found new ways to infect people
Scientists suspect Nipah has lived among flying foxes for millennia. But the spillovers of recent decades have illustrated a versatility the virus wields as a pathogen: its ability to infect cells that possess so-called ephrin-B receptors. These receptors regulate what gets in or out of cells that line vital organs and the central nervous system. […]
World Bank steering committee, Yellen urge more reforms at lender this year
The World Bank’s steering committee and US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Wednesday called for further reforms this year to expand the bank’s ability to respond to climate change, pandemics and other crises that are reversing development gains. Yellen hosted talks with global finance officials to discuss an initial spate of balance sheet changes that […]