Pandemic

Representative Image: Person holding syringe while injected to skin. Photo Source: PickPik

February 21, 2025

Health·USA

CDC Halts Major Flu Vaccine Campaign During Severe Flu Season

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has stopped its “Wild to Mild” flu vaccination campaign amid one of the worst flu seasons in decades. The decision comes just as the

Representative Image: Covid 19 Philippines. Photo Source: Asian Developmental Bank (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Health·News

H5N1 Bird Flu Jumps to Cows, Hits 140M Poultry, and Mutates Toward Human Pandemic Risk

The H5N1 bird flu virus has reached an alarming new phase of transmission and mutation, creating what health experts warn could become the next global pandemic. With confirmed human cases in the US and unprecedented spread across species and continents,

December 16, 2024

Bird Flu Pandemic Possibility: CDC Reports Low Current Risk, High Mortality Potential

Health·USA

The US health authorities stated that there is currently no risk of a pandemic from avian flu A(H5N1), despite outbreaks in 12 states among

China Warns Elon Musk Against Sharing Of COVID-19 Origin Theory

Business·Politics·USA

Recently, the theory that COVID-19 originated from a lab leak in Wuhan, China has surfaced again and is being discussed globally again. Elon Musk,

Culture·Design·Technology

Futuristic Installation ‘Portal’ Connects Two European Cities To Uplift Communities From Isolation

Residents of a town in Lithuania, Vilnius and Lublin, a town in Poland, are now able to communicate with each other in real-time through a “Portal”. It is a futuristic installation that

Rahul Somvanshi

February 27, 2023

Artivism·Design

Italian Designer Develop Sofa Stuffed with Single-Use Masks

To highlight the amount of plastic waste generated due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Italian designer Tobia Zambotti repurposed discarded single-use masks as the stuffing for a sofa known as Couch-19. The Couch-19

Sakshi Bafna

February 6, 2023

Health

WHO’s Revised Guidelines Puts 97.3% Of The World In The Unsafe Zone

The pandemic saw a slow down of the working of the world’s economy. However, this change was not accompanied by a drop in pollution. Particulate pollution has remained unchanged from the levels

Jonathan Santosh

July 4, 2022

Health·India

Hand Sanitisers : Malpractice, Health & Safety

Sanitisers have become one of the important precautionary measures against COVID-19 other than social distancing and use of masks. But how legitimate and functional are these sanitisers in the local market? Dr.

Karmactive Team

September 15, 2020