India topped countries in the South-East Asia region for the most number of malaria cases and deaths in 2022, according to this report published by the World Health Organization (WHO). Each year, WHO’s World malaria report provides a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of trends in malaria control and elimination across …
MUMBAI: One more person succumbed to malaria on Wednesday, taking the toll of monsoon-related ailments since July 1 to 42. According to civic health officials, the victim was a 30-year-old man from Matunga (W). He was admitted to civic-run Nair Hospital and diagnosed with mixed malaria. Ninety-three more patients were …
Poharkar et al.1 have reported the presence of a single genotype of avian Plasmodium spp. AP70 in 14 White-backed vultures in Central India. This result and the treatment of ill vultures with an antimalarial drug, as well as the lack of diclofenac residues implied that malaria could be an additional …
Pune As many as 87 dengue cases have been reported from different parts of Pimpri-Chinchwad so far in this month. Similarly, 102 persons have been affected by malaria till July 22. The figures of dengue and malaria cases in July are the highest for any month recorded by the medical …
State health and civic officials have found the incidence of malaria, particularly the malignant variant, has increased in the city compared with last year, despite anti-mosquito drives by the civic body. The officials suspect patient resistance to the drug chloroquine is the main reason for the spurt in malaria cases. …
THE government has decided to take off the shelves an anti-malarial drug, artemisinin, in India that is already banned the world over. Sold locally under several brands, the drug when used as a single drug can make malaria parasites resistant to the medicine. The move comes in almost after two …
The Centre on Friday informed Parliament that the use of the DDT other than in eradication of diseases like malaria and kala azar, is completely banned in the country. Replying to supplementaries raised by BJP member Rajiv Pratap Rudy in the Rajya Sabha, minister of state for chemicals and fertilisers, …
Pune Dengue and malaria continue their surge in Pimpri-Chinchwad without any tangible efforts from the civic body to curb the menace. While malaria has crossed the 300 mark, dengue cases have reached 187 since January. Even as it rained throughout Tuesday, the medical department of the Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation is …
JEYPORE: With at least 20 malarial deaths in the last one week, the disease is taking epidemic proportions in Jeypore and Koraput sub-divisions under Koraput district. As many as 3,000 persons suffering from malarial fever were admitted to health centres in these sub-divisions. Of these, 80 per cent cases are …
Come monsoon and with it we hear the news of an outbreak of various seasonal diseases, particularly the vector-borne ones. What is also not surprising is that the civic body
SHILLONG: Meghalaya has recorded 12,726 malaria cases, most of them from Garo Hills, in the first half of 2009, a two-fold increase compared with last year. Though 20 people have died of the disease this year, there is concern that the malaria situation may worsen in the next six months. …
Bokaro, July 6: The sting is deadlier than the bullet. As if battling Maoists was not challenging enough, security personnel, particularly CRPF jawans, posted in the coal belt have another enemy to take on
The monsoon has brought with it several cases of malaria. Twelve persons have died of malignant malaria in Lohardaga alone, while another four deaths have been reported in the Pakur district. State officials accept that malaria cases have suddenly shot up post monsoon. However, they have confirmed the death of …
Cerebral malaria has killed four infants in tribal-dominated Littipara block of Pakur district in the past one week. The number of the affected is on the rise. JMM MLA from Littipara Sushila Hansdak and her husband, former party MP Simon Marandi, announced today that they would demonstrate by forming human …
Agartala: Outbreak of gastro-enteritis coupled with viral fever and malaria has taken a worst turn in some areas of West and North Tripura districts, claiming at least three lives in a week. According to a report, a few tribal dominated localities under Kanchanpur sub-division in North Tripura along Tripura-Mizoram border …
The number of dengue deaths has passed 127 and counting. The affected persons have exceeded 9000. In 2005 the number of patients that died from dengue was 28 while there were 5994 dengue patients. In 2006, 48 patients died from dengue while 11980 were affected. In 2007 the number of …
Mumbai Veteran actor Dilip Kumar, who was admitted to Lilavati Hospital with suspected malaria infection on Sunday morning, was said to be recovering on the second day of hospitalisation on Monday. The doctors, however, said that they now suspect a dual malaria-dengue infection. At the time of hospitalisation, Kumar was …
Scientists go door to door to bring the pests in, PCR test tells them which ones are dangerous OVER the last few years, people from some villages of Orissa got used to a team of researchers knocking on their doors at five in the morning. The team was on a …
The researchers from the Regional Medical Research Centre and Institute of Life Sciences, Bhubaneswar, also used the PCR technique to detect the chloroquine-resistant strains of Plasmodium falciparum. The drug chloroquine was used in treating malaria until the parasite developed resistance to it. Using PCR, the scientists easily detected the chloroquine-resistant …
A survey will be carried out in the Gorubathan block of the Kalimpong subdivision, where 50 people have been affected by malaria. Sources said the regional malaria director for north Bengal, Tulsi Pramanik, along with a team of experts, will visit the areas hit by the disease and suggest preventive …
