Half of the world’s population still does not have adequate access to safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) which could have prevented at least 1.4 million deaths and 74 million disability-adjusted life years in 2019, according to this latest report by the World Health Organization (WHO). The report summarizes …
Pakistan’s under Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)) is committed to supply 93 percent of the population of the country with safe water and 64 percent of the population with adequate sanitation by year 2015, as World Health Organisation (WHO) estimated that 97,900 people die every year in the country due to …
Pranjal Gupta, a class 5 student, prefers eating in her school canteen instead of carrying a tiffin box. Her friends in school too eat pav bhaji, vada pav or chowmein from the canteen. Many students like eating in the school canteen because they get to eat what they like and …
The family from a nearby village arrived at the small hospital here vomiting and with uncontrollable diarrhea, at first glance maybe a typical case of consuming bad food or water. But the fluid loss was tremendous and unstoppable; two of the three brothers were already near death, and within hours …
Concerned over the large number of child deaths due to measles every year, the Centre has launched a massive anti-measles vaccination drive. More than 13 crore children are expected to be covered under the Measles Catch-up Campaign, irrespective of their previous measles vaccination status. The drive has been launched by …
At least two people have died after suffering from a serious bout of diarrhea in Tilathi of Saptari district Friday. The diarrhea outbreak has also made more than hundred people in the remote village sick and in urgent need of medical attention. The victims of the outbreak have been identified …
Rancid brown water licks at Samroeng Verravanich's thighs as he wades through one of Bangkok's many flooded streets. The garbageman plunges a white-gloved hand into the filth, fishes out a slimy plastic bag and slings it into the red basket he's towing. "If you have cuts, it can create infections …
Peak tides tested Bangkok's flood defenses on Sunday as hope rose that the center of the Thai capital might escape the worst floods in decades, but that was little comfort for swamped suburbs and provinces where worry about disease is growing. The floods have killed at least 381 people since …
Close to one lakh children below the age of five years died of diarrhoea attributable to rotavirus infection in 2008, accounting for 22 per cent of the total deaths reported globally, reports the latest edition of the Lancet Infection Diseases magazine. Diarrhoea related with the rotavirus infection resulted in 453,000 …
New Delhi: India recorded 98, 621 rotavirus-induced diarrhoea deaths in 2008, which is about 22% of global toll from the infection. Nigeria — the second worst-hit country — recorded about 41,000 deaths, or less than 50% of fatalities as compared to India. Pakistan (39,000) and Bangladesh (9,000) figures among the …
Thailand's hundreds of thousands of flood victims are at risk of water-borne diseases and infections, the World Health Organisation said Saturday, though no major outbreaks have been reported yet. The spread of communicable diseases such as diarrhoea, respiratory illness and conjunctivitis among displaced flood victims in shelters was a key …
A nationwide listeria outbreak that has killed 25 people who ate tainted cantaloupe was probably caused by unsanitary conditions in the packing shed of the Colorado farm where the melons were grown, federal officials said Wednesday. Herbert H. Stevens Jr., 84, shown in recovery with his daughter, Jeni Exley, fell …
Researchers have revealed how a common hospital pathogen turns into a deadly superbug, killing more and more patients worldwide. A mutation in the Clostridium difficile causes potentially dangerous diarrhoea among indoor patients undergoing antibiotic therapy, according to Dena Lyras and Glen Carter from the Monash University School of Biomedical Sciences, …
KOCHI: One of the major reasons for the contamination of potable drinking water is the presence of E-Coli, a bacterium found in human and animal waste. Dr Aisha S, a doctor in the Health Department said: “There have been a few cases of water contamination in the past caused by …
Pakistan is unlikely to meet MDGs regarding sanitation facilities as about 50 percent people here would be deprived of access to adequate sanitation facilities and safe drinking water by the year 2015. If this trend continues, the total number of people affected by poor sanitation facilities could increase to 52.8 …
Professionals and activists at a global conference on sanitation and hygiene on Wednesday stressed the need for coordinated efforts from the government and non-government organizations to remove institutional as well as cultural barriers to make sure that all, including the marginalised and the physically-challenged people, have access to proper sanitation. …
A six-day global conference on sanitation and hygiene which began here on Monday called for all out efforts to ensure that everyone across the world has access to toilets and safe water to prevent deaths from diarrheal diseases. Professionals, activists and policy makers from different countries told the conference that …
A cholera epidemic sweeping through west and Central Africa, one of the biggest in the vast region's history, has infected more than 85,000 people, killing at least 2,466 so far this year, United Nations aid agencies said yesterday. The virulent diarrhea disease is spreading quickly along waterways between and within …
Inadequate sanitation causes a loss of $ 4.22 billion (Tk 30,000 crore) in Bangladesh every year. The amount is equivalent to 6.3 percent of the country's GDP in 2007, reveals a new report. The report, 'The Economic Impacts of Inadequate Sanitation in Bangladesh', has been published by the Water and …
Every year, more than one million children under the age of five die as a result of diarrhoea. It is the second-biggest killer in this age group, after pneumonia, and 40% of diarrhoea deaths are caused by rotavirus. That horrific toll could soon fall, thanks to the first major roll-out …
Listeriosis cases linked to cantaloupes grown at a farm in Colorado represent the deadliest food-borne outbreak in a decade, and health officials are bracing for additional illnesses. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday said it had confirmed 13 deaths and 72 illnesses centered on cantaloupes grown by …
