World malaria report 2022
Each year, WHO’s World malaria report offers in-depth information on the latest trends in malaria control and elimination at global, regional and country levels. The report highlights progress towards
Each year, WHO’s World malaria report offers in-depth information on the latest trends in malaria control and elimination at global, regional and country levels. The report highlights progress towards
KOCHI: With the communicable diseases like malaria spreading in the district, the authorities with the Health Department are planning a slew of measures targeting the migrant labourers here. Though the cases of malaria have been on the rise in the district since 2000, the authorities are unable to put in place proper measures to contain the disease. On Tuesday, seven cases of malaria were
Key weapons in the fight against malaria, pyrethroid insecticides, are losing their edge. Over the past decade, billions of dollars have been spent on distributing long-lasting pyrethroid-treated bed nets
Now, Mosquito Breeding Checkers Threaten To Go On Strike From July 1 New Delhi: Mosquitoes seem to have stolen a march on the rains this year. Even before the monsoon set in on Sunday, the city had recorded five cases of dengue and 21 of malaria.
Although the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC)
New Delhi: The total number of dengue cases reported this season has gone up to five after a 20-yearold girl admitted at a private hospital was diagnosed positive for the vector-borne disease.
MUMBAI: In what is being labelled as the first dengue death of the season, a 46-year-old Navi Mumbai resident died of complications arising out of the mosquito-borne disease at Jaslok Hospital on Wednesday. Jayashree Jagdish Gadi was transferred from BARC Hospital in Anushakti Nagar to Jaslok Hospital in the wee hours of Wednesday.
Of the 10,350 dengue cases reported in the island during the past six months, 60 deaths have been reported.
Offices of several local bodies and departments are conducive for mosquito breeding Despite the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) taking several measures to curb water-borne diseases in the city, mosquitoes have been found breeding at several places. A total of 3,931 houses have been found conducive for mosquito breeding. Legal notices have been issued to 6,120 houses for the same.
French drugs group Sanofi said that its vaccine against dengue, a mosquito-borne infection that kills thousands of people around the world each year, could be launched in about four years.
With the monsoon season around the corner, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has intensified its drive against vector-borne diseases. The civic body today said it would organise events like seminar, lecture, exhibition, and public awareness initiatives in every ward, beside sanitation drives in each of the 12 zones simultaneously. In the series, Delhi Mayor Rajni Abbi today launched a