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>
Vector Control
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This MLA picks up garbage, cleans drains
Puducherry: N Anand, fondly called "Bussy' Anand, is a busy man. A firsttime MLA, he was elected from the Bussy assembly constituency in the Union territory in 2006 and hence the prefix. And when the 44-year-old legislator of Puducherry Munnetra Congress is not pushing for schemes, meeting voters or discussing local politics over a cuppa, he's clearing garbage, cleaning clogged drains and spraying mosquito repellent across the town. And he does this with his own money, spending Rs 75,000 to Rs 85,000 every month from his earnings.
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An environmentally friendly cheap method to reduce coastal malaria in India
There are several procedures to control mosquitoes by chemical, mechanical, genetical or biological means. Biological control of mosquito larvae by the application of natural animal products is one of the important techniques, which is cheap, easy-to-use and environment friendly. (Correspondence)
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$10 mosquito net makes charity cool
Campaign To Save African Kids From Malaria Finds Favour With Young Americans Donald G McNeil Jr Donating $10 to buy a mosquito net to save an African child from malaria has become a hip way to show you care, especially for teenagers. The movement is like a modern version of the March of Dimes, created in 1938 to defeat polio, or like collecting pennies for Unicef on Halloween.
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Several people hit by gastroenteritis in Lohit
Over 200 people have been attacked by gastroenteritis in several villages under Namsai sub-division of Lohit district in Arunachal Pradesh over the past few days. Official sources said here today that no deaths were reported from any of the affected villages so far. Many villages, including Philobari, Silatoo, Lekang and Khowji, had been hit by the disease. Local medical officers visited the affected areas and treated about 200 patients. However, proper treatment could not be provided, following the lack of adequate medicines.
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Insecticide-treated nets prove to be best bet
Officer-in-charge at the National Institute of Malaria Research-Goa Dr Ashwani Kumar and Dr Hemant Kumar are upbeat over their experiments with bed nets treated with deltamethrine that have shown excellent results in controlling malaria. Says Dr Ashwani Kumar, "A total of 18 sites were taken up in the experiments out of which at nine places bed nets treated with deltamethrine were distributed. At the nine sites malaria cases have shown a decline, while at the other nine locations where no nets were given the situation has not seen much difference.'
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New mesh gives net gains against mosquitoes
Get a good night's sleep: bed nets designed to stop mosquitoes in their tracks are undergoing large-scale trials in India and Tanzania. The German firm BASF has developed a polymer mesh whose cross-linked structure can retain a pyrethroid insecticide inside it for 25 washes, yet still allows enough of the chemical to diffuse to the surface to "knock down" nearly all the mosquitoes that land on it.
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Sterile mosquitoes near take-off
<p>Malaysia is looking to battle dengue fever by releasing mosquitoes that have been genetically engineered to be sterile. Although these efforts have stirred public concern, the country's Academy of Sciences is likely to recommend the strategy to the government within a month.</p> <p><strong><a href="http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080521/full/453435a.html" target="_blank">Original Source</a></strong></p>
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Alert issued over mosquito breeding
Hospitals in the Capital have been asked to check and prevent breeding of mosquitoes on their premises to ensure that malaria and dengue are kept under control this year.
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A mosquito goes global
The Asian tiger mosquito is on a rampage. Entomologists are impressed, public health officials are nervous, and many of the rest of us are swatting furiously. How did Aedes albopictus become such a scourge?
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NEIST releases technology on toxic-free mosquito repellant sticks
The North East Institute of Science and Technology released the technology for making mosquito repellent incense sticks for commercial production to a Sivasagar-based Agro Industry on the occasion of the observation of National Technology Day here, today. "Clean Out is a herbal agarbati made from indigenous plant materials and is totally free from hazardous chemical constituents,' a scientist of NEIST related while handing over the technology to Shamsul Haque of Premier Agro Products, Sivasagar.