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 …
Aurangabad: The Aurangabad Municipal Corporation's (AMC) health department has made dengue a notifiable disease like tuberculosis (TB) and directed private doctors and hospitals to immediately notify health officials about patients with symptoms of dengue. According to Manisha Bhondwe, civic vector-borne disease controlling officer, the decision was taken at two review …
DEHRADUN: The rising dengue cases have shifted the focus of nagar nigam to aggressive fogging and proper waste disposal in the city. Talking to TOI, Dr Kailash Gunjyal, health officer, nagar nigam, said, "Since the outbreak we have been focusing more on Kargi and Pathribagh by using the method of …
The Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC) has decided to postpone its first Raahgiri event as the city continues to grapple with dengue fever outbreak. "The CMC had decided to launch the much awaited Rahagiri event in July, and identified the venue for the programme. However, in the wake of the outbreak …
Pune: The rising cases of dengue have once again exposed the half-hearted surveillance work undertaken by the civic body. As per the norms of the National Vector Borne Diseases Control Programme, Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) is expected to inspect 10% of the population every month that comes to around four …
City hospitals have pulled up their socks to tackle dengue patients and separate wards are being marked to handle such cases. So far, four patients have been confirmed positive for dengue. One patient was from Ludhiana, while the remaining three were from other districts and are undergoing treatment at the …
CMO Y S Thapaliyal said the situation was under control with the condition of all patients improving. In an alarming situation, at least 41 people have been tested positive for dengue in the last two days in Dehradun, the state health department said on Tuesday. However, CMO Y S Thapaliyal …
The monsoon nightmare is back to haunt Jamshedpur and its neighbours. The East Singhbhum civil surgeon's office on Tuesday issued a double alert for dengue and Japanese encephalitis in the steel city after 18 suspected cases of the vector-borne diseases were reported from Tata Main Hospital (TMH) on Monday. "A …
BERHAMPUR: The number of dengue affected persons has been gone up to 65 in Girisola of Chikiti block of the district. As many as 15 persons, including nine minors of Girisola, tested positive for dengue. They have been admitted in a private hospital at Visakhapatnam in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh. Though …
Calls to public health hotlines can predict dengue fever outbreaks two or three weeks earlier than local hospitals can confirm them, according to a new study from Pakistan. The study looked at 300,000 calls to a health hotline in Lahore over two years. By asking callers to describe their symptoms …
35 health teams to visit houses for larva breeding, issue challans Four persons from the city have tested positive for dengue. All patients have been admitted to Dayanand Medical College and Hospital (DMCH). Since the rainy season has set in, the threat of dengue looms large over the city. The …
DEHRADUN: In some alarming news, 22 people from a single residential area - Pathribagh - in the city have tested positive for dengue. Pathribagh in Patel Nagar had recorded the season's first dengue death on July 6 and registered another dengue case after a 32-year-old man tested positive for the …
Bhubaneswar: Union minister of state for health and family welfare, Faggan Singh Kulaste on Saturday criticized the Naveen Patnaik-led government for not doing enough to prevent dengue outbreak in the state even as 106 more people tested positive for the mosquito-borne disease in last 24 hours. Total number of cases …
Jaipur: In the wake of rains lashing the state, the risk of mosquito-borne diseases is looming large. At least 70 areas in different blocks of the state are at high risk for spread of dengue as they have more than 10% houses infested with dengue mosquito larvae. A health department …
Aurangabad: The civic body on Sunday claimed to have completed fogging, abate treatment and spraying in all the high-risk localities in the city and also said that similar drives are going on in other parts. "More than 1150 employees have been deployed to carry out the task to implement preventive …
Aurangabad: Rain relief on one hand, sting scare on the other. People of Aurangabad are fearing an outbreak of vector-borne diseases following the onset of monsoon with the health administration registering 10 dengue positive cases since June. The maximum number of dengue cases (7) was reported in areas under the …
Cuttack, With dengue situation remaining critical here, Cuttack Municipal Corporation (CMC) today issued show cause notice to a newsprint manufacturing unit in Jagatpur Industrial Estate for allegedly causing public nuisance by keeping its premises unhygienic. The number of dengue patients at government-run Sriram Chandra Bhanj Medical College and Hospital crossed …
Dengue is the most prevalent arboviral disease in humans and a major public health problem worldwide. Systemic plasma leakage, leading to hypovolemic shock and potentially fatal complications, is a critical determinant of dengue severity. Recently, we and others described a novel pathogenic effect of secreted dengue virus (DENV) non-structural protein …
For the first time, the Gujarat government has declared dengue and malaria as notifiable diseases. Now both public and private hospitals will have to report any case of dengue or malaria, and related deaths registered by them. The government said that the step taken on Wednesday was in accordance with …
Cuttack: The first dengue death was reported from the city on Wednesday. The deceased, Lal Kisore Suna, 35, a resident of Saintala area in Balangir district and working at a paper mill at Jagatpur, was admitted to the SCB Medical College and Hospital on Tuesday. His condition was critical. He …
Another dengue positive patient of this season in Dehradun has come from Pathribagh in Patel Nagar. Earlier this month on July 6, first patient of dengue of this season hailed from the same area. This patient is employed in Haridwar and stays there. As per the claims of health department …
