Influenza, or flu, and air pollution are significant public health risks that impact nations around the world with large economic consequences. The authors of this paper show that increased levels of air pollution significantly increase the rate of hospitalisation for people with flu. In addition, they find that protection afforded …
MIRZA : The economic contribution made by the lakhs of poor people working in the backyard poultry units towards running the rural households is crucial. Indispensable part of almost every family, the non-descript local variety both of fowl and duck reared with zero input cost has ensured the nutritional requirement …
India reported outbreaks of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) H5N1 in poultry in the states of Maharashtra, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh (February
India reported outbreaks of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) H5N1 in poultry in the states of Maharashtra, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh (February--April 2006); Manipur (July 2007); West Bengal (January 2008) and Tripura (April 2008). Original Source
The Union health ministry along with US-AID is doing a project in seven districts in the state to identify susceptible areas of Avian Flu and measures that could be taken to prevent the spread of the disease. Dr Suneel Kumar Muttoo, resident advisor of US-AID, said seven vulnerable areas have …
Pesticides in veggies: A government of India survey found high levels of pesticides in fruits and vegetables. Fourteen per cent of the samples collected from across the country had traces of pesticide residues. Four per cent had residues beyond the permissible limit. Pesticide residues were also found in cereals, pulses, …
Raiganj, June 1: The number of poultry culled in the flu-struck Hemtabad block of North Dinajpur has far outstripped the target set by the district administration as villagers from outside the culling zone brought in birds for fear of the infection spreading. District magistrate Ramanuj Chakrabarty said after the disease …
Surinder Sud / New Delhi June 1, 2009, 0:38 IST Even as the threat of swine flu continues, a fresh outbreak of the highly pathogenic avian influenza (bird flu) has been reported from West Bengal. About 20 backyard poultry birds were reported to have died on May 20 in the …
A major component of the bird flu drug, it is in short supply one way to prepare for the bird flu epidemic is to store large quantities of the drug Tamiflu. The drug blocks the enzyme responsible for helping the virus break the host cell membrane to get out, and …
K. Srinath Reddy Whether it is livestock breeding in factory farms and accompanying deforestation that contributes to global warming and zoonotic infections, or increasing automobile density, which depletes fossil fuels and escalates heart and lung diseases by changing activity patterns and air quality, environmental and health concerns are linked by …
Virology Will the H1N1 virus trigger a pandemic similar to the 1918, 1957 and the 1968 events? Kalyan Ray cites researcher Daniel Perez, who showed that an avian flu virus requires relatively fewer mutations to spread rapidly between mammals. With the world overcoming the initial pangs over swine flu (H1N1) …
Oseltamivir or Tamiflu, the wonder drug that cures avian influenza as well as the new H1N1 flu, would be distributed in India only through the government machinery as experts have warned that its indiscriminate use can result in the virus developing resistance to the medicine. Briefing reporters here today, Ministry …
New Delhi: As countries around the world reach out for the panic button over reports of swine influenza (H1N1 virus) striking human populace in Mexico, domestic companies like Roche, Cipla and Hetero Drugs are gearing up to supply the bird flu drug, oseltamivir, to the Indian and overseas markets in …
S.Ganesan Bird movements tracked to determine relation between locations and H5N1 outbreaks STUDYING THE DISEASE FACTOR: S.Balachandran, Assistant Director, BNHS, releasing a bar-headed goose that was fitted with a transmitter at Koonthankulam. TIRUCHI: Over 500 swab samples collected so far from migratory birds under an international surveillance project on avian …
Hong Kong: Scientists in Hong Kong and the United States have identified a synthetic compound which appears to be able to stop the replication of influenza viruses, including the H5N1 bird flu virus. The search for such new
Surinder Sud / New Delhi April 6, 2009, 0:16 IST A total of 215 people have died due to officially confirmed cases of the highly pathogenic avian influenza (bird flu) infection in different countries since 2003. Of these, six deaths have been reported in the first three months of this …
