PASIGHAT: The Pasighat district health department is going all out to control mosquito-transmitted diseases like malaria, dengue and recently detected Japanese Encephalitis (JE) in the district. Headed by the DMO Dr Kaling Dai, a team of doctors and officials in carrying outsource reduction activities followed by awareness programme, fogging and …
Up to a billion additional people - including many in North America and Europe - could be exposed to mosquito-carried viruses including dengue fever and Zika virus by 2080 if the climate continues to warm at current rates, researchers said Thursday. Preventing that expansion of potentially fatal diseases will require …
While no fresh cases of malaria have been reported, three cases of chikungunya-- two in February and one in March-- have been recorded this year. At least five dengue cases, including three in March, have been detected in Delhi so far this year, even though the vector-borne disease is usually …
MUMBAI: Bombay high court has, in an interim order, stayed the Maharashtra government's two-and-half-year-old directive capping the price of dengue tests at 600. A division bench of justices Abhay Oka and M S Sanklecha admitted the petition filed by Association Of Practising Pathologists and held that while the state had …
JAIPUR: Even in winters, dengue has taken toll on the health of the people in the city. So far this year, 93 persons have already been tested positive for dengue in the city. Dengue is a mosquito-borne disease and the cases of the disease are commonly reported during rains and …
KOCHI: With mosquito density in different places in the city going up, cases of communicable diseases such as dengue have been reported from many areas. Following the report, district health department has expedited vector control activities across the city. Normally, diseases like dengue are reported post monsoon showers. Density of …
Dengue fever is a major public health concern in many parts of South-East Asia and South America and its prevalence in Africa is thought to be expanding. Researchers have now conducted an analysis of the economic burden of dengue fever in Burkina Faso, Kenya and Cambodia. Their results appear this …
The 2015-2016 El Niño event brought weather conditions that triggered regional disease outbreaks throughout the world, according to a new NASA study that is the first to comprehensively assess the public health impacts of the major climate event on a global scale. El Niño is an irregularly recurring climate pattern …
Brazil's Health Ministry said Tuesday that from Jan. 1 to Feb. 2, the number of registered suspected dengue cases increased by 149 percent year-on-year to 54,777, which means 2.63 out of every 10,000 inhabitants have been infected. According to the ministry, 32,821 of the cases were registered in the southeastern …
KOLKATA: The KMC health department on Wednesday decided to deploy drones to locate potential breeding grounds for mosquitoes. Deputy mayor Atin Ghosh held a meeting with borough chairpersons and senior civic officials to chalk out a plan for drone surveillance to combat dengue. According to a KMC health department source, …
Five cases of transfusion-transmitted dengue, including one case of dengue haemorrhagic fever, have been documented. Hyderabad: Those infected with dengue must not donate blood for six months after recovery, according to the recent guidelines released by the National Blood Transfusion Council, as the dengue disease can also be transmitted through …
NEW DELHI: Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) has been identified as one of the 10 threats to global health in 2019 by World Health Organisation (WHO). The other threats on this list include HIV, Ebola, dengue, vaccine hesitancy, air pollution and climate change. The health organisation has warned that if action is …
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 21 (ANI): The World Health Organization (WHO) has listed out 10 global health threats for 2019, adding that millions of lives will be at risk if these threats are not addressed. The United Nation's public health agency, thus, is starting a new five year strategic plan …
MUMBAI: Dengue cases in Maharashtra were up by an unprecedented 41% in 2018 from 2017, raising questions about the measures to tackle the vector-borne disease. The state also accounted for over a third of the country’s dengue deaths last year. Confirmed cases rose to 11,011 last year from 7,829 in …
MUMBAI: With India seeing a high incidence of diseases spread by mosquitoes, Bajaj Allianz General Insurance has launched a health cover that is specifically targeted at seven vector borne diseases - dengue, malaria, chikungunya, Kala Azar, Japanese encephalitis, filariasis and Zika virus. While the focus is on mosquito-borne diseases, the …
PATIALA: Even as the district administration and the health department had chip-in all its efforts to curb the dengue menace last year, it all seems to have turned futile with a large number of dengue cases reported in the district. The administration in Patiala was the only in Punjab to …
If you are among those who thought or believed that dengue mosquitoes bit only early in the morning or before dusk, then beware! It’s time you stopped getting complacent at night, because city doctors say the dengue-causing aedes aegypti mosquitoes are now biting even at night. In the past couple …
New Delhi: Dengue cases in Delhi have risen to 2,798 in 2018 as the year inched towards its end, a municipal report said on Monday. At least four deaths, including that of a minor boy, have been reported due to the vector-borne disease till the third week of December. Three …
High incidence of dengue has been reported in the state for the fourth consecutive year. When dengue season has almost come to an end, this year so far 14,400 cases have been reported from across the state. The number is close to the last year when over 15,000 cases were …
Dengue fever is caused by the bite of an Aedes Aegypti mosquito. This female mosquito lays eggs in water containers and plants near your surroundings. The species can survive year round in the subtropical and tropical regions and can bite humans as well as animals. Aedes aegypti is a small, …
KOLKATA: An overwhelming 85% of dengue patients in Kolkata were affected with serotype II of the virus — considered the second most virulent of the four serotypes to which immunity is low in the city — this year. This is the second year in a row that serotype II has …
