The endorsement on Wednesday in Geneva by the World Health Organisation (WHO) of the new malaria vaccine Mosquirix has been described as a…
One misconception about the Tharu people is that they never got malaria. In fact they did, but less than hill settlers. A US-led insecticide…
Haphazard urbanisation in Nepal has created ideal conditions for the mosquito that carries the disease
Governments in industrialised countries must not ignore the plight of poorer nations facing the coronavirus pandemic, or the disease will not be…
As they enter Lavkant Chaudhary’s Masinya Dastoor exhibition at the Siddhartha Art Gallery, the visitors are strongly drawn to one particular…
There used to be a time when the main public health threat in Nepal was from infectious diseases like malaria, encephalitis, TB and typhoid.…
George Brooks inspecting vegetable farm in the early 1950s. Photo: US NATIONAL ARCHIVESRace formed a contentious part of the early Cold War in…
Polio eradication is one of the most ambitious public health initiatives undertaken in human history. Launched in 1988 by the World Health…
OUTBREAK: Experimental spraying for mosquitos on inner walls of houses in the Tarai in the 1950s. Pic: USOM records, US National Archives,…
