Vaccinating pigs could worsen epidemic
A top health official said that vaccination of pigs against Japanese encephalitis had been halted amid fears that it could worsen the viral epidemic which has already killed nearly 60 people.
A top health official said that vaccination of pigs against Japanese encephalitis had been halted amid fears that it could worsen the viral epidemic which has already killed nearly 60 people.
An outbreak of Japanese encephalitis, suspected of killing 51 people in Malaysia, is believed to have spread to Singapore. A man who worked in a slaughterhouse that imported live pigs from Malaysia
Singapore on Friday suspended all imports of live pigs amid fears the vicious Japanese encephalitis virus had spread here after leaving dozens dead in Malaysia, local television
Some 20,000 pigs in Malaysia's southern Negeri Sembilan state will be killed to check the spread of the fatal Japanese encephalitis virus, a newspaper reported on Monday. The move followed the death
Malaria, Japanese encephalitis and Kala Azar, which were under control for some time, are re-emerging with increased ferocity, claim health officials. Seventy percent of Nepal's population is at risk
Japanese encephalitis, a Vector-Borne Disease (VBD), alone caused 407 deaths in Nepal in 1997, shows the record at the Ministry of Health (MOH). According to Dr Mahendra Bista, director of
Japanese Encephalitis(JE) which has a mortality rate of over 40 per cent, is looming over Kochi yet again, with the fading of the monsoon and the salubrious mosquito-breeding season, with the hotting
Suspected Japanese Encephalitis has taken an epidemic form in the upper Assam districts, with casualty figures standing at 65 till Thursday. At the Assam Medical College (AMC) hospital alone, there
Death toll climbed up to 44 in this inner Terai valley after six other people died of Japanese encephalitis in Mahendra hospital(Nepal) after the onset of this year's monsoon. According to Abdul
Outbreak of various diseases has taken serious turn in the Dhemaji district, Assam. Among the diseases malaria, high fever (suspected to be Japanese encephalitis), diarrhoea, jaundice are taking
The Andhra Pradesh Government has decided to import one lakh doses of the Japanese encephalitis (JE) vaccine from Vietnam, in view of the current shortage. Sample vaccine are already begin tested at
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PANIC-STRICKEN by an illicit liquor that has taken a toll of at least 75 persons and a mysterious fever that may be Japanese encephalitis or simple food poisoning, Patna medical authorities have
Malaysia orders immediate killing of a million pigs; virus claims more than 85 lives
Japanese B Encephalitis, the commonest type of encephalitis caused by mosquitoes thriving in paddy fields, is emerging as a serious problem in Indis. Increasing number of such cases was being
Over the last one month, 100 persons, mostly minor children, lost their lives in the six districts of upper Assam due to Japanese B Encephalitis, according to health minister Bhumidar Barman. The
The mere knowledge that mosquitoes are the carriers ofa number of Diseases like malaria, filariasis and dengue is not enough to check the spread of vector-borne diseases. P K Dits, director of the Pondicherry-based Vector Control Research Centre (VCRC
KALYAN BANERJEE, director of the National Institute of Virology NIV in Pune, speaks to MAX MARTIN about the emergence and re emergence of viral diseases in India. Banerjee warns that the hantavirus, one of the most lethal killers discovered till date, m
Kuttanad in Malayalam means 'small town'. But the ecological devastation which human hands have wrought here is in no way small or insignificant
<i><font class='UCASE'><font color=red>T Jacob John</font></font> , professor of virology and paediatrics at Christian Medical College, Vellore, speaks to <font class='UCASE'><font color=red>Raj Kishor Khaware</font></font> on the state of health and e