World malaria report 2023
<p>India topped countries in the South-East Asia region for the most number of malaria cases and deaths in 2022, according to this report published by the World Health Organization (WHO).</p>
<p>India topped countries in the South-East Asia region for the most number of malaria cases and deaths in 2022, according to this report published by the World Health Organization (WHO).</p>
AHMEDABAD: The high rate of malaria cases in the state is a grim sign of the fight lost out to mosquitoes. Ahmedabad city has recorded 596 malaria cases in the latest weekly disease assessment of the state, the highest and has even overtaken Surat city which has recorded 543. Ahmedabad has the second highest number of falciparum cases in the state. A major reason, according to health practitioners is the relapse of malaria and falciparum cases in patients.
Malaria outbreak is increasing in some of the VDCs of lower Sorad area in Baitadi district. According to Kesharpur Primary Health Center, Melauli, 20 persons have been found suffering from Malaria.
Rapidly emerging insecticide resistance is creating an urgent need for new active ingredients to control the adult mosquitoes that vector malaria. Biopesticides based on the spores of entomopathogenic
The estate department of the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation carried out demolition and sealing drive in Thakkar Bapanagar, Madhavpura and Sarkhej areas of the city, to check mosquitoes and stop illegal constructions.
Already feeling the pinch of food insecurity, the agriculture sector of Pakistan has to face a loss of Rs 67 billion, as recent monsoon flooding has damaged standing crops in most of Lower Sindh. Well-placed
The makeshift camps hosting internally displaced persons (IDPs) of flood-affected areas of Thatta and Badin-the two hardest hit districts in the recently floods-have now been hit by the waterborne diseases
Gates Foundation invests $1 mn in wacky idea to treat mosquito-borne illness The plan is to treat malaria by sticking the patient into a microwave. OK, not the whole patient. Probably just an arm or a
Ranchi/Jamshedpur, Aug. 21: Mosquitoes have proved to be a bigger menace than Maoists for security personnel engaged in anti-Naxalite operations in Saranda. As many as 127 jawans have been admitted
The malaria menace seems to finally have lost its bite. Against the 17,000 malaria cases recorded in the city till August last year, only 2,500 cases have been recorded this year. Health officials attribute
Releasing genetically modified, spermless male mosquitoes into the wild could in future help to prevent malaria transmission and reduce the chances of large outbreaks of the killer disease, British scientists