IEDCR

Institute of Epidemiology Disease Control And Research
Dengue patients, admitted at capital's Mugda General Hospital. Photo take on 19 September 2022

Mosquito-borne disease Dengue spread to 50 districts

World Health Organization expert K Krishnamurthy in 2017 and BN Nagpal in 2019 had recommended dengue prevention. Health department didn’t implement any of the recommendations

Dengue infected patients are seen hospitalised at the Sir Salimullah Medical College Hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on 2 August 2019

Seven dengue patients hospitalised in Dhaka in 24hrs

Another seven dengue patients were hospitalised in 24 hours till Monday morning in Bangladesh

A man reacts before the body of his father, a ward master at Suhrawardy Hospital in Dhaka, who died under treatment at the hospital after showing coronavirus symptoms. The deceased was Covid-19 positive in the test report received after death.

Coronavirus: 32 died in five days

The country is seeing deaths from coronavirus every day now. Seven people died on Tuesday. The number was 12 a day before on Monday

A section of skin tissue, harvested from a lesion on the skin of a monkey, that had been infected with monkeypox virus, is seen at 50X magnification on day four of rash development in 1968

Turkish man not infected with monkeypox: IEDCR

After conducting various tests, Tahmina Shirin, director of the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) confirmed that the suspected case was not monkeypox

Infant Mariam with her mother at the icddr,b hospital on 3 April, 2022

Diarrhoea outbreak: 450,000 patients in three months

More than 450,000 people all over the country have been diagnosed with diarrhoea

A health worker in a Dhaka hospital sorts test tubes with samples for testing novel coronavirus infection

Covid-19 Infections rising due to delta variant: IEDCR Director

Bangladesh recorded first cases of Omicron variant in December. The newer variant has become a matter of global concern

Three more Omicron cases detected in Dhaka

Three more Omicron cases detected in Dhaka

Institute of Epidemiology Disease Control And Research analysed their samples and sent them to GISAID

Scene from a street in Khulna where no one is bothered about masks and other health guidelines despite an alarming increase in the spread of Covid-19

Covid- 19: Still not the time to feel relief

There is some relief among the people due to the reduction in the patient identification rate and casualties at recent times. On the other hand, there is also fear among many that the situation might ...

Aedes mosquito

835 dengue cases in 18 days

April to October is generally seen as the dengue season, but the four months from June to September is peak season

Nur-e-Alam, who had been suffering from fever for four days, was admitted to coronavirus ward of Pabna General Hospital on 4 July, 2021

Covid-19 Crisis of oxygen feared as patients on the rise

The demand of oxygen has multiplied several times for the treatment of the Covid patients. Although there is no oxygen crisis at the moment, there are flaws in the oxygen management

Shahina Begum from Krishnapur village of Rajshahi’s Tanore upazila is admitted to Rajshahi Medical College Hospital on 20 June 2021 after she suffered from a fever for seven days. The picture was taken on 24 June 2021.

Covid-19: Three variants spreading rapidly

The World Health Organization (WHO) said several countries including Bangladesh have been recording increased infections and deaths of Covid-19 despite a decreasing trend in both new cases and new ...

A woman receives oxygen sitting on the floor after hospital bed falls short due to growing number of Covid-19 patients at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital on 22 June 2021.

Covid-19 Situation may deteriorate further ahead of Eid: Experts

Amid the rise in Covid cases triggered by local transmission of the Delta variant, experts predict that Bangladesh may see the peak of the current wave of the deadly virus in the third week of July ...

Free distribution of 13m masks in 35 high-risk districts begins

Community resilience against Covid-19 Free distribution of 13m masks in 35 high-risk districts begins

BRAC has teamed up with a group of partners to undertake an initiative to build community resilience against Covid-19 in Bangladesh

An attendant is seen next to a patient who recovered from the Covid-19 coronavirus and now infected with Black Fungus, a deadly fungal infection at the Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Medical College in Jabalpur on 21 May, 2021

Two black fungus cases detected in Bangladesh

Two patients with mucormycosis widely known as black fungus have been detected at a hospital in the capital, said professor Tahmina Shirin, director of the government's Institute of Epidemiology, ...

Coronavirus

Bangladesh detects Indian coronavirus variant: IEDCR

Institute of Epidemiology Disease Control And Research (IEDCR) has detected an Indian Covid variant.

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