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 …
“CHOLERA most forcibly teaches us our mutual connection. Nothing shows more powerfully the duty of every man to look after the needs of others.” So said Titus Salt, a Victorian wool baron who worked to put an end to cholera in Yorkshire. It was cholera, as much as the great …
Five million people are at risk of cholera in drought-hit Ethiopia, where acute watery diarrhea has broken out in crowded, unsanitary conditions, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday. Cholera, an acute intestinal infection, causes watery diarrhea that can quickly lead to severe dehydration and death if treatment is …
The federal government has spent years considering whether to take steps to help keep dangerous strains of E. coli bacteria out of the food supply, a question that has become even more urgent in the face of a deadly wave of E. coli sickness that swept through Europe and raised …
Three persons died and more than 50 others were taken ill due to an outbreak of diarrhoea in Galdha VDC in Palpa district in the past two days. The disease has been spreading in ward nos 1, 2, 3 and 8 in the VDC for the past four days. Chandra …
The floods showed no signs of abating in Ghatal, Sabang, Daspur, Pingla and Dantan blocks of West Midnapore with the Subarnarekha, Kapaleswari, Keleghai and Silabati rivers in spate. Though the water level of Silabati river is receding very slowly, there is bad news for Ghatal as the Rupnarayan is in …
The objective was to determine whether the installation of deep tube wells to reduce exposure to groundwater arsenic in rural Bangladesh had an effect on the incidence of childhood diarrhoeal disease.
With the monsoon having arrived, the threat of water-borne diseases is looming large over the city with the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board failing to supply potable drinking water to all citizens. Water samples collected from various localities in the city by the Institute of Preventive Medicine (IPM), …
The E. coli bacteria that killed dozens of people in Germany over the past month have a highly unusual combination of two traits and that may be what made the outbreak among the deadliest in recent history, scientists there are reporting. An investigator at an organic farm in the village …
If the figures collected from public hospitals are to be believed, the BMC needs to seriously think of the increasing number of people being affected by diarrhoea in the city. The data collected by Praja foundation
A strain of E. coli spreading across Europe is a previously unseen variant of the bacterium, and one that is more virulent than seen before, health officials say. Scientists also said the new strain appeared likely to be resistant to common antibiotics. By June 2, 18 people had died and …
Probiotics are widely used in promoting human health and adjunctive therapy of human disease. Many clinical trials and research studies have shown benefits of probiotics. We review the literature associated with the clinical applications of probiotics in paediatric diseases.
THE national vaccine policy draft, submitted in the Delhi High Court recently, strongly favours inclusion of new vaccines in the Universal Immunisation Programme (UIP). The court had sought the draft from the Centre last year in a case against introduction of new vaccines. It will hear the case next on …
KATHUA, At least 40 persons were taken ill as diarrhoea spread in some hamlets in Ramkote area of tehsil Billawar. Reports said in last two-days nearly 40 persons have been hospitalised at Ramkote and Billawar in view of this water
The recent move of Ann Veneman, former executive director of Unicef, to Nestle Board has left nutrition campaign groups worried. While Unicef supports breastfeeding, Nestle, the food and drinks giant, undermines it. Before she joined Nestle Board on April 13, nutrition advocacy groups International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN) and …
A large number of people have been hospitalised across the city after eating adulterated flour (kuttu ka atta) during Navratri. The patients had common complaints, including stomach ache, nausea, diarrhoea and fever. Patients came in large numbers to Guru Tegh Bahadur Hospital, Lal Bahadur Shastri Hospital, Hedgewar Hospital and Jagpravesh …
