Tasnim A senior official at Irans Health Ministry said no cases of human infection with the H5N6 form of bird flu have been recorded in the country. Speaking to the Tasnim News Agency, Mohammad Mehdi Gouya, the director of the Health Ministrys Center for Communicable Disease Control, said over the past two years, the H5N8 avian influenza virus has ...

He said, Since last year, weve witnessed a new wave of immigration into the country. Unlike in the past, when young, healthy immigrants would come here pursuing job opportunities, now theyre women and children, for the most part, who are in desperate need of healthcare services, and the responsibility sits upon us to control their vaccinations. Noting ...

Iran has entered the malaria elimination phase, said Muhammad Mehdi Gouya, director general of communicable diseases at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention affiliated to the Health Ministry. The country has taken great strides in eliminating the disease and is one step closer to being declared malaria-free which will be a huge international ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) An Iranian health ministry official announced that a well-equipped hospital in Tehran is ready to deal with possible cases of Ebola in the country. A hospital in Tehran has been designated for the quarantine and treatment of possible cases of Ebola and countering the virus, Director General of Ministry of Healths Centre for Disease ...