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 …
The National Vector Borne Diseases Control Programme, Government of India and Government of Goa with the NIMR, Government of India along with other bodies namely the Goa University, Voluntary Health Association of Goa, Goa Medical College and others will now be working together for three years as partners for evidence-based …
The promising results from trials of a malaria vaccine developed by GlaxoSmithKline have kindled hopes of a breakthrough in combating this mosquito-transmitted disease that infects nearly 250 million people, killing about a million every year. The findings of the human tests of the experimental vaccine (named RTS,S), conducted in Kenya …
According to several worrisome studies presented here last week at the annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, resistance against artemisinin-based combination therapies, the gold standard in fighting malaria, seems to be developing in western Cambodia, along the Thai border.
Zubeda Hameed |Chennai, Fever, vomitting and diarrhoea are common complaints from the outlying inundated areas as the city lacks clean drinking water TWO weeks after the cessation of rain, reports of outbreak of diseases are coming from several areas in the city and the suburbs. Fever, vomiting and diarrhoea are …
This report provides an overview of the global distribution of malaria cases and deaths and documents how control strategies recommended by WHO have been adopted and implemented in endemic countries.
ecological sciences Bird diversity is anti-viral Greater bird diversity protects humans from a deadly virus known to cause meningitis. The West Nile Virus, usually maintained in a bird-mosquito cycle in nature, can be transmitted to humans through a mosquito bite. Biologists from Washington University recently said most birds are bad …
HYDERABAD: Kotis C.Kafatos, president, European Research Council and Chair of Immunogenomics, Imperial College, London, has expressed scepticism over the long-term effectiveness of treating malaria through drugs or even a vaccine if developed and called eradicating the disease by blocking the transmission of the parasite from the mosquito to humans. Talking …
Over 41 students of a school for SC/ST girls near the capital have suddenly fallen ill with symptoms of malaria or viral fever, spreading panic among teachers and parents a week after the tragedy in a Bero residential school where five boys died after drinking milk served with hostel snacks. …
Southeast Asia and South Pacific island nations face a growing threat from malaria and dengue fever as climate change spreads mosquitoes that carry the diseases and climate-change refugees start to migrate. A new report titled "The Sting of Climate Change," said recent data suggested that since the 1970s climate change …
Donald G. Mcneil Jr. By last year, about 19 per cent of African children who lived in areas where malaria was endemic were sleeping under insecticide-treated mosquito nets, according to a new study in The Lancet. Whether or not that is success or failure depends on how you look at …
Speakers at a roundtable yesterday said insecticide-treated mosquito nets could help reduce deaths due to malaria effectively. They said the outbreak of the disease is taking a serious turn in 13 districts particularly in mosquito-infested areas in Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) of the country as 98 per cent people of …
An analysis of insecticide-impregnated bednet usage in 40 African countries over seven years, using the Global Rural Urban Mapping Project, has identified poverty-stricken Nigerian children as a priority for the rollout of free bednets to prevent malaria. Other priority countries include Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, C
Civil surgeon V.K. Singh today conceded that at least three persons died of malaria at Tisri alone even as 30 people are feared to have fallen prey to the disease in the district. The civil surgeon had sent a medical van to Gawah and Tisri blocks today for instant check-up …
The Matale anti malaria Regional Office has embarked on a malaria prevention programme in the area. Eight malaria patients have been treated recently at the Matale district hospital. An officer of the Matale anti malaria office said investigations have revealed that all eight patients are soldiers who had been serving …
Though over 25,000 people have been afflicted by Malaria and Dengue in the city in the past two months, the drive to spray mosquito repellents at every house by civic workers has virtually collapsed. The civic authorities had issued a circular asking all field workers to carry out anti-larval measures …
BHUBANESWAR: Now, Orissa can shed its stigma with malaria as a new method using simple biotechnology can wipe out the larvae and the success could be much more than what was achieved in the past decades with numerous control measures. If the claims of this scientist from Institute of Microbiology, …
