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 …
South China's Guangdong Province has reported 30 cases of dengue fever this year, up 172 percent compared to a year earlier, the provincial health and family planning commission announced on Tuesday. Twenty-seven of the cases were contracted outside of Guangdong, as neighboring Southeast Asian countries have been plagued by dengue …
The number of dengue fever cases in Brazil is expected to further increase, Health Minister Arthur Chioro said Monday. "We have 745,000 registered cases from January to April 18, and we know that these figures will increase, because new reports keep coming. Brazil has a situation of epidemic, concentrated in …
Scientists announced this week they had not only located a gene that determines sex in developing mosquito embryos but when they tweaked it female offspring were born with male genitals. The experiments are significant because only female mosquitoes suck blood, and when they bite someone with a disease such as …
The decision was taken in the pre-monsoon meetings addressed by Municipal Commissioner Ajoy Mehta. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) recently started a process to map areas, and it has shown a steady rise in incidents of vector-borne diseases such as dengue and malaria in the past three years. The mapping …
PUNE: Experts have cautioned citizens against the rise in mosquito-borne diseases after Wednesday's heavy downpour. Pointing at likely accumulation of water in unused or discarded objects, they said: "This may result in new breeding sites for Aedes aegypti mosquito that can spread dengue and chikungunya among other diseases." The number …
Department will formulate guidelines on treating dengue patients, says Khader Minister for Health and Family Welfare U.T. Khader has said that the department will soon upload on its website a list of blood banks where platelets for dengue patients will be made available at free of cost. Addressing a gathering …
The father of a patient who died of dengue years ago, pursued the case of negligence in his son's death case for many years and in the course of his fight, chanced upon the fact that dengue and malaria figures in the district were considerably muted. There have been a …
The Health Ministry on 16 March confirmed an outbreak of dengue fever in the northern province of Nampula. Dengue fever, also known as breakbone fever, is a disease caused by the dengue virus which is carried by mosquitoes of the aedes genus, mainly the species aedes aegypti (different from the …
Malaria, dengue fever and other deadly exotic diseases could become an established part of British life in a matter of decades, public health experts have warned. The emergence of the illnesses is likely to be driven by climate change, which will make it easier for mosquitoes and other blood-sucking insects …
LONDON: Climate change could accelerate the emergence of vector-borne diseases such as chikungunya, dengue fever, and West Nile virus in Britain, says a new study. The findings detailed in the journal The Lancet Infectious Diseases indicate that vector-borne diseases, which are transmitted by insects such as mosquitoes and ticks, are …
Mosquitoes could bring diseases such as dengue fever and West Nile virus to the UK within the next few decades, experts are warning. Writing in The Lancet Infectious Diseases journal, they said warmer UK temperatures could make conditions favourable for the insects to breed. However, climate change is just one …
The presence of the recently introduced primary dengue virus vector mosquito Aedes aegypti in Nepal, in association with the likely indigenous secondary vector Aedes albopictus, raises public health concerns. Chikungunya fever cases have also been reported in Nepal, and the virus causing this disease is also transmitted by these mosquito …
NIGERIANS have been told to seek alternative ways of checking increase in the incidence of malaria in the country. Speaking with The Guardian over the weekend, Mr. Max Daluz, the chief executive of Inesfly Africa, said malaria and other forms of insect related diseases have led to so many deaths …
India has emphasised inclusion of adaptation as a part of Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDC). For understanding adaptation requirements, we need to understand and value climate change impacts first. This preliminary assessment tries to estimate the cost of global climate change impacts for India. The study aims at estimating first …
Dengue virus (DENV) transmission is ubiquitous throughout the tropics. More than 70% of the current global dengue disease burden is borne by people who live in the Asia-Pacific region. We sequenced the E gene of DENV isolated from travellers entering Western Australia between 2010–2012, most of whom visited Indonesia, and …
The Madras High Court Bench here on Monday took serious note of recent dengue deaths in Rajapalayam in Virudhunagar district and told top officials of health department that it expects much better action towards prevention of such deadly diseases. When a petition filed by social activist K.K. Ramesh came up …
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa cabinet in Pakistan, decided to lift the over two decades long ban on forest harvesting besides managing forests along scientific lines in line with a working plan made by the government. Read more in November 2014 edition of the Monthly Overview on State of Environment, Pakistan ENVIRONMENT …
A whopping 3,440 dengue cases were detected from June to September though the death toll this year was a minuscule nine in comparison. The viral disease saw health officials on alert conducting exercises to contain the disease. Cases shot up since June sending health officials into a tizzy. They started …
The first-ever maps of global vulnerability to dengue, a mosquito-borne tropical virus that produces a painful condition of body joints sometimes referred to as "breakbone fever," were published by UN University's Canadian-based Institute for Water, Environment and Health. The maps colourfully illustrate the dynamic expansion and contraction of dengue vulnerability …
The worldwide distribution of dengue is expanding, in part due to globalized traffic and trade. Aedes albopictus is a competent vector for dengue viruses (DENV) and is now established in numerous regions of Europe. Viremic travellers arriving in Europe from dengue-affected areas of the world can become catalysts of local …
