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 …
Unlike bird flu that killed a large number of birds before affecting human beings, swine flu affects only humans Surinder Sud / New Delhi May 5, 2009, 0:49 IST Unlike bird flu that killed a large number of birds before affecting human beings, swine flu affects only humans. Unlike avian …
ALISTAIR BELL MEXICO CITY May 4 Mexico said it was winning the battle against a deadly new strain of flu as it stayed largely shut for business and cases dropped, but global health officials hinted a pandemic was still likely. World Health Organisation (WHO) chief Margaret Chan, paving the way …
Health authorities on Monday said five persons, including three in the national capital, have been kept under observation for the H1N1 virus in the country. The death toll worldwide due to the virus has risen to 26. Health officials claimed a total of 45,000 passengers have been screened across all …
AHMEDABAD: The two suspected cases of swine flu among humans in Delhi and one in Hyderabad have made the Gujarat health department officials devise an action plan with immediate effect. The plan involves round-the-clock monitoring of all passengers on international flights coming into the state and setting up of two …
Pune Health officials in Pune are not taking any chances as they work round the clock to keep any possible H1N1 virus (swine flu) from entering the city limits. Nowhere in the city was this as clear on Monday as at the Pune airport, where director J P Mathur and …
The City District Government Karachi (CDGK) has constituted a vigilance committee and entrusted it with the task of taking precautionary measures against swine flu and facilitating management of the virus if reported at any stage in the city. A CDGK communication said that the committee headed by EDO of Health …
MEXICO CITY -- Mexico has moved past the peak of an H1N1 flu epidemic and is in the "phase of descent," the government said on Sunday, although world health officials still say the unpredictable virus could become a pandemic. Health Minister Jose Angel Cordova said the outbreak appeared to have …
Swine flu has become widespread in the United States, with 226 cases in 30 states and more expected to turn up in additional states in the next few days, federal health officials said Sunday.
The best way to track the spread of swine flu across the United States in the coming weeks may be to imagine it riding a dollar bill. The routes taken by millions of them are at the core of a computer model at Northwestern University that is predicting the epidemic
The government has set up check posts at air, river and land ports as pre-cautionary measurers to prevent Swine Flu, a respiratory disease caused by H1N1 virus. This was stated at a meeting of Parliamentary Standing Committee on Ministry of Health and Family Welfare held at Sangsad Bhaban yesterday with …
Humans have it. Pigs don't. At least not yet, and U.S. pork producers are doing everything they can to make sure that the new H1N1 virus, known around the world as the "swine flu," stays out of their herds. "That is the biggest concern, that your herd could somehow contract …
When millions of people started dying around the world in 1918, doctors and scientists hadn't a clue what was happening. As the epidemic spread, people blamed it on everything from tiny plants to old dusty books. Then again, they couldn't have known because the influenza virus was only identified in …
Patralekha Chatterjee May.04 : Mexico, the epicentre of the new flu outbreak, may seem a world away from India. But there is a flip side to frequent flying
May 3: The health authorities have cleared all doubts of anybody having contracted the H1N1 flu in the national capital after the reports of six persons turned out to be negative. Dr N.K. Chaturvedi of Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital said that all samples were found negative and the last patient …
Police, pig farmers clash in Egypt over culling MEXICO CITY: Influenza A(H1N1), popularly termed swine flu, extended its reach through Europe and Latin America, with at least five countries reporting new cases on Sunday. Health experts were investigating a case of the virus jumping from a person to pigs, trying …
Manas Dasgupta GANDHINAGAR: The Gujarat government has instructed authorities in all the sea ports across the State not to allow crew members of foreign cargo ships to set foot on Indian soil without being thoroughly checked. Among the busiest sea ports receiving cargo ships from abroad are Kandla and Mundra, …
Felicity Lawrence Just as an unsustainable financial system caused the current banking crisis, the intensive farming of animals is at the heart of the swine flu outbreak. In modern disaster management theory, when any large system experiences a major shock or failure, you assess the risk, activate an ordered emergency …
New Delhi: Not only cooked pork but even processed pork products like ham, sausage, bacon and salami are safe to eat. So, feel free to gorge on your ham and salami club sandwich or a spicy pork vindaloo. With pork dishes fading away from restaurant menus worldwide, the World Health …
