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Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding pollution of Godavari river, Telangana, 29/05/2025

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 …

W.H.O. May Raise Alert Level as Swine Flu Cases Leap in Japan

The number of swine flu cases in Japan soared over the weekend, raising the likelihood that the World Health Organization will soon have to raise its pandemic alert level to 6, the highest level. On Sunday, the assistant principal of a school in Queens died after being hospitalized with swine …

Deal on H1N1 vaccines fails at WHO meet

World governments failed to reach a final deal on the sharing of virus research material and vaccines in case of a global flu pandemic at a weekend meeting of the World Health Organisation.

Japan confirms '80 domestic swine flu cases'

Japan confirms '80 domestic swine flu cases' AFP

Two admitted with swine flu symptoms

The youth on visit to Coimbatore is based in New Jersey COIMBATORE: A 27-year-old man and his 52-year-old mother got themselves admitted to the quarantine ward at the Coimbatore Medical College Hospital here on Sunday following symptoms that were similar to those of swine flu A(H1N1). Persistent fever and cough …

Strict checks begin after 1st flu case

A day after India confirmed its first case of A/H1N1 influenza virus, government tightened the screening process of passengers from flu affected countries. Authorities had on Saturday confirmed that a 23-year-old IT student in Hyderabad had tested positive of carrying the virus. On Sunday authorities also admitted a mother-son duo …

India records 1st H1N1 case

Health authorities said a 23-year-old man, an IT student who flew from New York to Hyderabad via Dubai and New Delhi, tested positive for the virus India has recorded its first positive case of H1N1 influenza virus (earlier referred as swine flu), giving further evidence that the disease is further …

SriLankan takes steps to prevent Swine Flu

SriLankan Airlines has implemented a series of precautionary measures in response to the threat posed by the A(H1N1) Swine Flu, to protect its passengers and prevent the spread of the disease. Head of Service Delivery, Capt. Milinda Ratnayake said; "We'd like to reassure our passengers that there is no cause …

Fears of Swine Flu Close Three More Schools

The number of public schools in New York City reporting children with flulike symptoms continued to rise Friday, as three more schools in Queens and Brooklyn were closed, bringing the total to six this week, and parents and city officials wrestled with how to handle the growing spread of the …

Swine Flu Not an Accident From a Lab, W.H.O. Says

The swine flu virus did not result from a laboratory accident, the World Health Organization said Thursday, working to debunk rumors started by an Australian virologist and circulated by news outlets all over the world.

Passenger shows flu symptoms

May 13: Health authorities on Tuesday said one passenger, who had disembarked at the Hyderabad airport, has been referred to health facility for suspected H1N1 influenza virus. The authorities, meanwhile, maintained no positive flu case has been identified in the country so far. Authorities said as an advance planning, National …

Birds More At Risk; World Failing In Conservation

The list of birds threatened with extinction has grown fractionally; a new sign that governments are failing to meet a 2010 global conservation goal, an annual review of birds showed on Thursday. A 2009 "Red List" added birds including the newly discovered gorgeted puffleg -- a bright-coloured Colombian hummingbird -- …

Swine flu: CGHS team visits RGICD

Senior officials from the Central Government Health Scheme (CGHS) visited the Bengaluru International Airport (BIA) and the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Chest Diseases (RGICD) here on Wednesday. The team was led by A K Sethi, Director General of health services, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India. Sources …

Drugs Urged for Swine Flu in Pregnancy

Pregnant women who get swine flu are at such high risk of complications like pneumonia, dehydration and premature labor that they should be treated at once with the antiviral drug Tamiflu

Sundargarh vets on alert

ROURKELA: Although no swine flu has been reported from any part of the Sundargarh district, the veterinary officials are taking all measures in the wake of pig raising and pork eating habits of the tribal population. Pigs are raised by tribals and Dalits as they are both source of revenue …

Pandemic threats: what is to be done

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 …

Swine flu turns into epidemic

MARK STEVENSON and DAVID KOOP MEXICO CITY ? VIRUS SPREADS TO CUBA, CHINA, THAILAND AND FINLAND; STRICT TRAVEL ADVISORIES ISSUED The swine flu virus was confirmed on Tuesday to have spread to more countries as scientists estimated the new strain could have sickened 23,000 people in Mexico alone before anyone …

China confirms 1st H1N1 case

278 NEW CASES AS U.S. SURPASSES MEXICO AS MOST AFFECTED NATION China confirms 1st H1N1 case China confirmed its first case of swine flu on the mainland in a Chinese man who recently travelled back from the United States, the Xinhua news agency reported. The 30-year-old man surnamed Bao was …

3,000 fowls culled in Cox's Bazar

Some 3,000 chickens were culled at a poultry farm in Pahartoli area in the town on Sunday night after receiving confirmation that the chickens of that farm were infected with bird flu. District Livestock Office said the local administration carried out the culling at Al Akbar Poultry Farm. Dr Zaker …

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