Kuldeep Dhama, Firzan Nainu, Andri Frediansyah, Mohd. Iqbal Yatoo et al.
Newly emerging variants of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) are continuously posing high global public health concerns and panic resulting in waves of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Depending on the extent of genomic variations, mutations and adaptation, fe...
Kuldeep Dhama, Shailesh Kumar Patel, Rakesh Kumar, Rupali Masand et al.
Disinfectants and sanitizers are essential preventive agents against the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic; however, the pandemic crisis was marred by undue hype, which led to the indiscriminate use of disinfectants and sanitizers. Despite demonstrating a beneficial role in the control an...
Rakesh Kumar, Cut Meurah Yeni, Niken Asri Utami, Rupali Masand et al.
The ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), is a global public health problem. The SARS-CoV-2 triggers hyper-activation of inflammatory and immune responses resulting in cytokine storm and increased inflammatory re...
Deepak Chandran, Kuldeep Dhama, Muhammad Aslam, Sandip Chakraborty et al.
The resurgence of the disease in humans that is very similar to smallpox called monkeypox (MPX) disease, caused by the monkeypox virus (MPXV), is the dominant topic of discussion in the scientific and popular press around the world right now. This is taking place as the world celebrates the historic...
Sandip Chakraborty, Deepak Chandran, Ranjan K. Mohapatra, Mahmoud Alagawany et al.
Marburg virus disease (MVD) is a highly fatal disease caused by the Marburg virus (MARV) which belongs to the family Filoviridae. The disease has been recently reported from Ghana, an African country, and nearly 15 outbreaks of MVD have been reported in the past five decades. Various species of bats...
Kuldeep Dhama, Deepak Chandran, Sandip Chakraborty, Mohd. Iqbal Yatoo et al.
Recent disease outbreaks underscore the importance of robust disease surveillance and infection prevention and control (IPC) programmes to bolster Africa's public health response system. Yet, available evidence shows extensive gaps in the emergency response capacity of faith-based healthcare provide...
Tauseef Ahmad, Hui Jin, Kuldeep Dhama, Mohd. Iqbal Yatoo et al.
Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is an important public health problem and is responsible for both acute and chronic viral hepatitis. Public health implications of HEV are derived from its transmission route, either water-borne or food-borne, and its zoonotic potential. Not only in developing countries, but ...
Hari Sankar C R, Nithin S Rajan, Raida Raida, V K Sreya et al.
The food sector competes in a cutthroat environment, and it constantly struggles to maintain or even grow its market share. For customer confidence and consumption to remain strong, consistent animal products are needed. The qualitative attributes of the derived goods appear to be improved by the ad...
Ranjit Sah, Jaffer Shah, P. S. Rao, Bijaya Kumar Padhi et al.
The risk of 'zoonotic spillovers,' or the transmission of viruses from animals to humans, has been raised by climate change and the devastation of nature, as infectious disease experts have long warned. Even as the world works to stop the spread of the currently unfolding pandemic of coronavirus dis...
Tauseef Ahmad, Hui Jin, Kuldeep Dhama, Mohd. Iqbal Yatoo et al.
Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is an important public health problem and responsible for both acute and chronic viral hepatitis. The HEV transmission usually occurs through the fecal-oral route, and public health implications of its water-borne and food-borne transmissions along with environmental contamin...