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 …
Passengers from West African countries will be screened for the Ebola virus at the state's three airports. After chairing a high-level meeting of health department officials, minister for health V S Sivakumar said on Monday that medical help desks have been set up at Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi and Kozhikode airports, based …
COIMBATORE: From Monday evening, passengers flying into the city from Sharjah and Singapore will be screened for the Ebola virus. This move comes a day after a man landed in Chennai from Guinea, giving health department officials an Ebola scare. The airport authorities have allowed the public health department to …
Madhya Pradesh government has issued an alert for dreaded Ebola virus here on Monday. However, with no well-laid procedure, health officials in Bhopal are clueless on how to diagnose or even collect samples of suspects. All that the officials are depending upon is a website of the Centre. IDSP district …
Untested drugs can be used to treat patients infected with the Ebola virus, the World Health Organization says. The WHO said it was ethical in light of the scale of the outbreak and high number of deaths - over 1,000 people have died in west Africa.. The statement was made …
NIGERIA now has 10 confirmed cases of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) with 177 persons under surveillance, the Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chuwku, said on Monday in Abuja. Chukwu made the disclosure while updating newsmen on the efforts by the government to contain the disease. It has been 22 days …
(Reuters) - The death toll from the worst ever outbreak of Ebola has reached 1,013 after another 52 people died in the three days to Aug. 9 in three West African countries, the World Health Organization said on Monday. The largest number of reported new deaths were in Liberia, where …
In the wake of the admission of a 25-year-old man, who returned from Guinea in Africa on Saturday, to the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital here and his discharge on Sunday afternoon after blood samples were drawn and sent for tests to the National Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune, the …
What is Ebola virus disease? Ebola virus disease is a se vere haemorrhagic fever caused by viral infection. The virus causes internal and ex ternal bleeding in humans and non-human primates like monkeys, gorillas and so on. The disease was first no ticed in 1976 when Sudan and the Democratic …
Overwhelmed west African nations called states of emergency on Thursday as the toll from a fast-spreading Ebola epidemic neared 1,000, and an elderly Spanish missionary was evacuated for treatment at home. Soldiers in Liberia’s Grand Cape Mount province one of the worst-affected were restricting movement towards the capital Monrovia, where …
Govt says there are close to 45,000 Indians in the affected countries. The government has finally woken up to the threat of Ebola Virus spreading from affected African nations. The The health ministry is making arrangements to examine passengers flying in from countries hit by the virus at the airports …
The worst Ebola outbreak on record is an “extraordinary event” and a public health risk to other countries, the World Health Organization said. “The possible consequences of further international spread are particularly serious in view of the virulence of the virus,” the Geneva-based United Nations health agency said. “A coordinated …
A fast-spreading Ebola epidemic sparked a state of emergency in overwhelmed West African nations on Thursday as the death toll neared 1,000 and an elderly Spanish missionary was evacuated for treatment at home. In Liberia, where the dead lay in the streets, lawmakers gathered to ratify a state of emergency …
The World Health Organization on Friday declared the Ebola outbreak in West Africa to be an international public health emergency that requires an extraordinary response to stop its spread. It is the largest and longest outbreak ever recorded of Ebola, which has a death rate of about 50 percent and …
As the Ebola outbreak in West Africa grows, airlines around the globe are closely monitoring the situation but have yet to make any drastic changes Why are airlines concerned? Airlines quickly take passengers from one part of the globe to another. One sick passenger on a plane could theoretically infect …
Kashmir being one of the most favourite international tourist destinations, doctors here have warned that the Valley is more vulnerable than any other state to pandemic viruses like Ebola, which has so for claimed more than 900 lives in West Africa and is spreading to other countries as well. Claiming …
As the death toll rises in West Africa amid the worst Ebola outbreak on record, a separate threat is compounding the problem: the rainy season and the malaria that comes with it. In Sierra Leone, with the most Ebola cases in the epidemic, a fearful population is failing to seek …
The World Health Organization will convene a panel of medical ethicists next week to explore the use of experimental treatments for Ebola amid the worst outbreak of the disease on record. An experimental antibody cocktail developed by Mapp Biopharmaceutical Inc. was used to treat two infected American health workers whose …
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has declared a state of emergency as the country grapples with an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus. Speaking on national television she said some civil liberties might have to be suspended. The Ebola outbreak has also hit Guinea, Sierra Leone and Nigeria, killing more …
Health workers in West Africa appealed on Wednesday for urgent help in controlling the world's worst Ebola outbreak as the death toll climbed to 932 and Liberia declared a state of emergency. "The government and people of Liberia require extraordinary measures for the very survival of our state and for …
