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Cholera claimed the lives of five people in Amravati, Maharashtra, and 181 more have been infected with the disease. There were two females and three males among the fatalities. Cholera, a water-borne disease, sprang out on July 7. In areas where the disease has impacted, medical teams are working around the clock, and initiatives for prevention and control, such as water quality monitoring, patient surveillance, management, and treatment are… read-more

A patient from USA became the first woman ever to have been cured of HIV, after undergoing an umbilical blood transplant. "This is now the third report of a cure in this setting, and the first in a woman living with HIV,'' stated a member of the International AIDS Society. Notably, the therapy also led to remission from blood cancer or leukemia, which she developed due to HIV.

According to a study published in the journal PLOS Medicine, a total of 16.29 billion doses of antibiotics has been sold in India in 2020. However, the sales of azithromycin rose to 5.9% in 2020 from 4.5% in 2019. In India, adult dose usage increased from 72.6% in 2018 to 76.8% in 2020. The research suggests that almost everybody who was diagnosed with COVID-19 received an antibiotic.