The Bihar Health Department has issued the notification of Bihar Epidemic Diseases Covid-19 Rules 2023 regarding effective control over Bihar Epidemic Covid-19. In the new rules, the responsibility of all the hospitals from the state level to the district level has been fixed for its control. In the manual prepared …
The continued success in global tobacco control is detailed in this year’s WHO Report on the Global Tobacco Epidemic, 2013. The fourth in the series, this year’s report presents the status of the MPOWER measures, with country-specific data updated and aggregated through 2012. In addition, the report provides a special …
The Centre has directed the Mizoram government to cull all pigs that were affected but have survived the Porcine Reproductive Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS). The state government records say there are 5,620 such pigs. Two government labs had detected an exotic virus that causes PRRS in 57 of the 64 samples …
Cases Registered Against 33; Show-Cause Notices Served To Over 2000 The state health department has served show cause notices to 2,333 people, as well as registered 33 cases against those who have been violating the basic hygiene norms in their surroundings, paving way for spread of diseases. State minister of …
Is Varanasi heading towards epidemics? So far, overflowing sewage, heaps of dumped garbage, contaminated water supply through taps were hinting this situation. But now even the records of the health department have declared that as many as 46 localities in urban area and 64 villages from eight blocks of the …
Signaling a possible epidemic, the Health Ministry yesterday said that 11 Lankans had tested positive for Influenza A (H1N1) over a period of one month. That was out of the 566 samples taken from suspected cases. Health Ministry spokesman Dharma Wanninayake said that the Ministry, in collaboration with the Epidemiology …
With rising number of testing centres for HIV+ patients in the state, district Burhanpur has emerged on the lines of districts Indore, Ujjain, Neemuch and Ratlam, which have a dense population of HIV+ patients in the state. In the last six years, as per official data, Burhanpur has 757 HIV+ …
It's been three years since a polio case was last reported from Uttar Pradesh. The day was commemorated as "Sankalp Divas" by the state government with Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, Health Minister Ahmad Hasan and others taking pledge to continue the polio eradication campaign. The last case of polio was …
Experts, though, deem it premature to call it a recurrence of an epidemic With two cases of swine flu reported in West Bengal recently, concerns have been raised over a possible recurrence since a two-and-a-half-year hiatus. Officials of the State’s Department of Health and Family Welfare, though, said on Sunday …
Researchers have developed a model that allows malaria epidemics in arid northwest India to be predicted four months in advance, helping authorities prepare for them much earlier than before. The seasonal malaria outbreaks in the region are known to be driven by higher rainfall, which allows the mosquitoes that transmit …
110 deaths since January; 148 since April 2012; 586 since 2009 The Rajasthan Government on Monday cautioned about rising incidence of swine flu (H1N1) in the State and sought Central assistance even as the Bharatiya Janata Party accused the Government of not being serious about addressing the epidemic-like situation. The …
494 Cases Reported In North India New Delhi: North India suddenly finds itself facing a sharp upsurge of swine flu cases, with the virus having claimed 95 lives in just four states of the region so far this year. As per health ministry data, 64 people have died due to …
New Delhi: H1N1 influenza is back to haunt Delhi after three years. The disease, which gained epidemic proportions in 2009, has claimed three lives so far this year. At least 57 people have taken ill this time around, according to government data. Path labs and hospitals say there is a …
As the overall prevalence of TB remains high among certain population groups, there is growing awareness of psychiatric comorbidity, especially depression and its role in the outcome of the disease. The paper attempts a holistic approach to the effects of psychiatric comorbidity to the natural history of tuberculosis. In order …
The flu season has been hitting hard this winter all across the country with nearly 30 states reporting flulike activity and over 2,200 people being hospitalized according to government health experts. Whether or not you have gotten your flu shot, chances are you or someone you know someone has come …
Pakistan reported more than 1,000 outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) last year, the largest number of FMD epidemics ever recorded in the world, said a speaker at an international conference on microbiology at Karachi University. More than 100 researchers are participating in the three-day event titled ‘Vector borne viral disease …
The World Health Organisation said on Wednesday that it had charted progress in the fight against tropical diseases but warned that dengue fever was spreading at an alarming rate. "In 2012, dengue ranked as the fastest spreading vector-borne viral disease, with an epidemic potential in the world, registering a 30-fold …
Death toll due to measles epidemic across the country has climbed to 413 as eight more children affected of the disease expired on Tuesday in Kadhkot area of Sindh. According to details, despite tall claims of the provincial and health authorities, measles which broke out from different districts of Sindh …
Six more children died of measles in different villages of Dadu district on Tuesday as people continued to wait for the health department’s vaccination teams, supposed to be sent to the areas affected by the outbreak, for a couple of months. The new victims have been identified as three-year-old Munir …
The Punjab government has approved the scheme of Health Sector with an estimated cost of Rs. 809.403 million for “Prevention & Control of Programme of Epidemics in the Punjab Province”. Four other development schemes of various sectors of the economy were also approved worth Rs. 1510.929 million in the 26th …
More than 6,000 persons in the district are in the grip of AIDS and tuberculosis (TB). As many as 3,600 cases of AIDS and 3,200 of tuberculosis (TB) have been identified in the district so far this year. Dr Baldev Singh, Medical Officer, Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART) Centre, Civil Hospital, said: …
