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
Vector Borne Diseases
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Awareness must to eradicate malaria
Speakers at a seminar here stressed the importance of an integrated awareness programme to eradicate malaria from society. According to a press release, the seminar was organised under the auspices of the federal malaria control programme, ministry of health.
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Unexpected rain may lead to many diseases
With rains all around in the middle of a graduating summer, doctors fear the rise of a host of diseases, especially those associated with mosquito breeding.Doctors in the Capital apprehend more dengue and malaria cases this year due to high breeding of mosquitoes. Cases of common cold, fever, headache, body ache and rashes are already on a high.
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Health Ministry calls meet over malaria outbreak
The Union Health Ministry has convened a meeting with the health directors of all the northeastern states at Guwahati on April 9 to discuss the outbreak of malaria in East Garo Hills district even bef
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Malaria review meet on April 9 in Guwahati
A review meeting is scheduled to take place on April 9 between Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry officials and Health Directors of northeastern States at Guwahati to discuss the recent outbreak
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Yellow fever vaccine supply under pressure, says WHO
As the outbreak of yellow fever spreads from Brazil to its neighbouring countries, Argentina and Paraguay, who has said that the world's supply of vaccine against the disease is under extreme
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Tripura becomes malaria drug resistant
All four districts of Tripura have become malaria drug resistant while the State Government has asked the Centre to provide help in combating vulnerability to the deadly disease.
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Malaria boom in Benaulim
After Colva, malaria has raised its ugly head in coastal Benaulim due to the booming construction activity.
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An awful, unseen visitant': The return of Burdwan fever
This essay does not probe why there was a malarial epidemic in Bengal in the 19th century, instead it explores how a series of dispersed and dissimilar debilities came to be represented as a single, continuous epidemic of malaria in Bengal and beyond for over most of the 19th century. The making of the Burdwan fever epidemic can hardly be ascribed to conveniently traceable intentions or a straightforward series of causes. The history of the unfolding of the epidemic hints at a "game of relationships'.
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Is climate change affecting dengue in the Americas?
<p>Dengue is spreading in the Americas. Incremental changes in climate could help explain the disease's expansion, according to environmental scientists. But some dengue experts have called the link with climate "alarmist' and scientifically unsound.</p> <p><strong><a href="http://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736(08)60435-3.pdf" target="_blank">Original Source</a></strong></p>
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Environmental thoughts and malaria in colonial Bengal: A study in social response
This study re-examines the notions in colonial India about the causes of malaria, specifically discussing the environmental reasons pointed to at the time. It shows how and to what extent some of the widely held ideas of the colonial era on environmental causation contributed to and, at the same time, shaped a kind of environmental awareness, which became a part of medico-social thinking in India. It also adds a new dimension to the thinking on malaria in colonial India by situating the environmental paradigm within a social and economic context.