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 …
Rift Valley fever (RVF) outbreaks have occurred across eastern Africa from 1912 to 2010 approximately every 4–15 years, most of which have not been accompanied by significant epidemics in human populations. However, human epidemics during RVF outbreaks in eastern Africa have involved 478 deaths in 1998, 1107 reported cases with …
As the frequency and prevalence of zoonotic diseases increase worldwide, investigating how mammal host distributions determine patterns of human disease and predicting which regions are at greatest risk for future zoonotic disease emergence are two goals which both require better understanding of the current distributions of zoonotic hosts and pathogens. …
Agra: Could a deadly animal disease that arrived on our shores less than 40 years ago cross over to humans, like Ebola, bubonic plague and HIV? A five-year-long research project in the department of entomology at St John's College here is trying to determine just that. Dr Girish Maheshwari, an …
BAREILLY: In an ongoing research titled 'Great Asian One Horned Rhinoceros dying in Indian Zoos' by a wildlife expert has revealed that 110 rhinos have died in Indian zoos during the period from 1965 to 2015. The research stated that out of these 110 rhinos, only 34 were born in …
Though there is no fear, the move to stop feeding poultry to animals is a precautionary measure, ZAK chairperson Rehana Banu has said. In wake of bird flu scare in Karnataka, the Bannerghatta Biological park (BBP) has stopped feeding poultry to the zoo carnivores. A circular has also been issued …
Mizoram will stop importing poultry, pigs and cattle from Bangladesh as well as other states after several thouand animals died due to diseases, an official said here on Tuesday. “We have asked the district magistrates to take suitable steps to stop import of chickens, birds, ducks, eggs, cattle and pigs …
Experts say no need to panic as H5N1 spread is localised in Bidar The demand for poultry dropped slightly in Bengaluru on Monday, a day after thousands of chickens died of bird flu (H5N1) in Bidar district. Chicken eaters are taking precaution and asking sellers where the birds have been …
The Animal Husbandry Department in the district is awaiting a notification from the Union Government for establishing a check-post along the Mysore National Highway in the wake of an alert sounded across Karnataka on outbreak of bird flu. Though the outbreak was at a village in Bidar district in the …
BENGALURU: Bird flu has resurfaced in Karnataka, this time in Humnabad taluk of Bidar district. But the authorities and experts are confident that adequate precautionary measures are in place to contain it from spreading to other parts of the state and are telling people not to panic. At the Central …
Chicken that died at a poultry farm at Melakera in Humnabad taluk, Bidar district. As many as 35,000 chicken have died in 20 days at Melakera in Humnabad taluk, sending shockwaves among those in the poultry farming industry. A total of 8,000 chicken had died on a single day at …
Amphibian populations are vanishing worldwide. Declines and extinctions of many populations have been attributed to chytridiomycosis, a disease induced by the pathogenic fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd). In Africa, however, changes in amphibian assemblages were typically attributed to habitat change. We conducted a retrospective study utilizing field surveys from 2004–2012 of …
Flu strains appear to evolve faster in pigs than they do in humans, a study of over 600 viruses has shown. Researchers say that this increased diversity could potentially pose a pandemic threat to humans if newly-evolved pig strains are transmitted to us. Previous studies found swine flu to have …
The increase in the number of swine flu cases prompted the government to bring forward the vaccination campaign from June to the end of April The health ministry in Brazil says 230 people have been killed by swine flu this year - more than six times the number for the …
NANCHANG -- Two human H7N9 cases have been confirmed in East China's Jiangxi province, local health authorities said on Sunday. The two patients are a 43-year-old woman surnamed Huang and a 23-year-old man surnamed Xiao. They are a mother and son, said the provincial health and family planning commission. Both …
Almost total decimation of Betpak-Dala’s population of 200,000 saiga antelopes in 2015 caused by pathogen that led to hemorrhagic septicemia, say scientists The mysterious mass deaths of about 200,000 saiga antelopes in Kazakhstan last year was caused by a bacterial infection. As news emerged in May last year of the …
CONAKRY – A resurgence of Ebola in a rural Guinean community has killed seven people, health officials said Wednesday, even as the World Health Organization voiced confidence that remaining isolated cases could be contained. The WHO said Tuesday that the Ebola outbreak in West Africa no longer constituted an international …
It is estimated that 72% of emerging zoonotic disease events originate from wildlife. Many of these diseases pose serious risks to human health, as demonstrated by the 2014 Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak in West Africa. Trade that brings wildlife into close proximity with humans and domestic animals provides an …
BHUBANESWAR: As many as 193 elephants died in the last three years in the State. In a written reply to a question from Prakash Chandra Behera (Cong) in the Assembly, Forest and Environment Minister Bikram Arukha said 70 elephants died in 2013-14, 55 in 2014-15 and 68 in 2015-16. He …
Scientists have warned that humans should brace for the emergence of a new virus that could be deadlier than Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) or Zika. The scientists in a study published on March 14, 2016, edition of the journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of …
Highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N8) viruses were isolated from migratory waterfowl in South Korea during fall 2014–winter 2015, a recurrence after initial introduction in winter 2014. These reappeared viruses were phylogenetically distinct from isolates circulating in poultry farms in South Korea. Original Source
