Death reported from Dhaka South City Corporation area

758 get hospitalised in a day

Health experts say higher AMR rates can lead to more critical illnesses, increased treatment failures

Dengue cases cross 55,000 mark

Soniya Akhter, 25, a resident of Mirpur-1, has been undergoing treatment at the dengue ward of Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital since Wednesday night.

Currently, 2,452 dengue patients are undergoing treatment at different hospitals across country

Hundreds seek treatment daily; patients allege shortage of medicines at Sadar hospital

The total number of deaths across the country has risen to 215 this year

At least 1,042 new dengue cases were reported yesterday -- the highest in a single day this year -- taking the confirmed number to nearly 50,000 so far.

Health directorate urges all with fever to get tested immediately

One more death from dengue was reported in the 24 hours till yesterday morning while 374 people were hospitalised with the mosquito-borne disease during this time.

After Rangpur, anthrax cases have been detected in Gaibandha, prompting the health and livestock authorities to launch a major awareness campaign warning people against consuming the meat of sick cattle.

Ongoing rainfall in October is expected to intensify the risk of dengue, with experts warning the situation may worsen in the coming months.

Dengue infections and fatalities continue to rise at an alarming rate, with the death toll reaching 200 and total reported cases climbing to 47,832 as of yesterday.

Eleven of the 12 city corporations across the country don’t have any entomologists to help the authorities check mosquito-borne diseases, exposing their weakness in combatting dengue that has now become a year-round concern.

Eight out of 12 people, whose samples were collected from Pirgachha upazila of Rangpur with anthrax symptoms, tested positive at the laboratory of the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR).

WHO reports that 2,83,800 people died of cardiovascular diseases that year.

As of yesterday, 188 people had died and 44,693, had been hospitalised.

Bangladesh recorded 1,438 cases of HIV and 326 deaths from HIV infections last year

Eighty-one percent of dengue patients who died this year were admitted to hospitals only after running a fever for three or more days, health authorities have reported, highlighting delayed hospitalisation as the leading cause of fatalities so far.