Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari threatens lives livelihoods appearing in the Telangana Today dated 13.05.2025" dated 29/05/2025. The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari …
The ongoing Ebola outbreak poses an alarming risk to the countries of West Africa and beyond. To assess the effectiveness of containment strategies, we developed a stochastic model of Ebola transmission between and within the general community, hospitals, and funerals, calibrated to incidence data from Liberia. We find that a …
Days after the Prime Minister stepped-in directing the Cabinet Secretary to assess country’s preparedness to tackle Ebola, the Union health ministry has beefed up preparations to keep the virus at bay. While aggressive training of epidemiologists is going on, teams are being sent to help high-risk states like Gujarat, Maharashtra …
The current Ebola outbreak in West Africa is totally unprecedented. The accelerating number of cases, the poor health infrastructure in affected countries, the short supply of skills, knowledge and personnel, and the fear surrounding this disease are providing a huge challenge to affected governments and the international community as they …
The fact that not everyone with Ebola virus disease (EVD) has died during the ongoing outbreak in West Africa, with an estimated case fatality rate of 70.8% by September 2014, suggests that some kind of immunity to this virus is possible. If left unchecked, this scenario will undoubtedly shift to …
Even as deadly Ebola continues to spread its wings, pharmaceutical companies developing the vaccines are committed to ramp up production capacity for millions of doses to be available in 2015. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), trials of vaccines have already begun in the US, the UK, and Mali …
A substantial scale-up in public health response is needed to control the unprecedented Ebola virus disease (EVD) epidemic in west Africa. Current international commitments seek to expand intervention capacity in three areas: new EVD treatment centres, case ascertainment through contact tracing, and household protective kit allocation. The researchers aimed to …
A high-level emergency meeting, convened by the World Health Organization at the request of several governments and representatives of the pharmaceutical industry, was held on 23 October to look at the many complex policy issues that surround eventual access to experimental Ebola vaccines. Ways to ensure the fair distribution and …
The World Health Organisation's emergency committee on Ebola will meet on Wednesday to review the scope of the outbreak and whether additional measures are needed, a WHO spokeswoman said on Tuesday. "This is the third time this committee will meet since August to evaluate the situation. Much has happened, there …
The United States issued stringent new protocols on Monday for health workers treating Ebola victims, directing medical teams to wear protective gear that leaves no skin or hair exposed to prevent medical workers from becoming infected, as another US patient recovered from Ebola and was discharged from hospital. The new …
West Africa's Ebola outbreak, which has been disrupting agricultural and market activities, threatens to erode food security and negatively affect the livelihoods of millions of already vulnerable people in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone unless more is done to meet their immediate food and nutritional needs, say aid agencies. They …
China on Thursday pledged at least 100 million yuan's (16 million U.S. dollars) worth of additional aid to help West Africa fight the deadly Ebola outbreak. The pledge was made by Chinese Premier Li Keqiang at the 10th Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) Summit here. In his remarks, Li said the Chinese …
European Union says ‘increased’ effort needed to tackle Ebola Three Ebola-infected travellers from the worst affected West African countries Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea are predicted to depart on an international flight every month, if no exit screening were to take place, according to new modelling research published in the …
BEIJING -- China and France agreed Sunday to join hands to combat the "unprecedented" spread of Ebola in western part of Africa. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and his French counterpart Laurent Fabius met in Beijing Sunday, and they had an in-depth exchange of views in this regard. According to …
China on Monday announced a new batch of $6-million donation to the United States World Food Program’s emergency operation to assist 1.3 billion people impacted by the Ebola virus outbreak in the three most affected countries – Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. The substantial amount of donation will be divided …
An outbreak of Ebola in a densely-populated country like India can create a difficult situation as it poses a serious threat, experts said at a conclave organised here to discuss various infections. “India being a densely-populated country and biomedical waste management being very poor in most Indian hospitals, chances of …
EU to meet to scale up Ebola response Nigeria is expected to be declared Ebola-free on Monday, just three months after fears that the virus could spread like wildfire through Africa’s most populous nation. The World Health Organisation (WHO) is preparing to announce that Nigeria has not had a confirmed …
Covers All Screening Hands As parts of its emergency preparedness, the central government on Sunday started a three-day training programme for Ebola caregivers in the capital. Epidemiologists, microbiologists and nurses from the health facilities linked to all international airports--the first point of contact for any passenger coming from the affected …
ON MARCH 25th the World Health Organisation (WHO) reported a rash of cases of Ebola in Guinea, the first such ever seen in west Africa. As of then there had been 86 suspected cases, and there were reports of suspected cases in the neighbouring countries of Sierra Leone and Liberia …
Centre holds all-state meet to assess nation preparedness Two days after the World Health Organisation (WHO) warned of a possible surge in the number of Ebola cases in coming weeks, the government on Thursday held a high-level meeting at the behest of the Prime Minister with states via-video conferencing to …
A second, smaller Ebola outbreak has been going on in Africa, and a new study shows it has a different source in nature than the massive epidemic raging now in the western part of the continent. The outbreak that began in July in the Democratic Republic of Congo is similar …
