Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari threatens lives livelihoods appearing in the Telangana Today dated 13.05.2025" dated 29/05/2025. The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari …
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is partnering with 732 advanced locality managements (ALMs) in the city to help curb the malaria menace.On Wednesday, the civic body issued circulars asking all ALMs to assist the BMC by detecting mosquito-breeding sites in their wards.The civic body also wants ALMs to create awareness …
Mumbai Three years after stopping its use,the BMC has turned to malarial larvicidal oil again, one of many desperate attempts to arrest mosquito breeding. It will buy the oil at Rs 1.5 crore and use it in places where water collects and stagnates.The BMC used the technique in the past …
Many of the most dangerous human diseases are transmitted by insect vectors. After decades of repeated insecticide use, all of these vector species have demonstrated the capacity to evolve resistance to insecticides. Insecticide resistance is generally considered to undermine control of vector-transmitted diseases because it increases the number of vectors …
A research priority for Plasmodium vivax malaria is to improve our understanding of the spatial distribution of risk and its relationship with the burden of P. vivax disease in human populations. The aim of the research outlined in this article is to provide a contemporary evidence-based map of the global …
New Delhi: Five new cases of dengue were detected in Delhi on Sunday, taking the number of people affected by the mosquitoborne disease this year to 57, said a senior medical officer.
Mumbai With malaria spreading in Mumbai, the state plans to request Central undertakings such as the railways, Employment State Insurance Scheme (ESIS) and the Mumbai Port Trust (MbPT) for outpatient services and additional beds in their hospitals. health Minister Suresh Shetty said the BMC would also rope in private practitioners …
Mumbai Alarmed by the increase in malaria cases, the state government has directed Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation to issue notices to construction sites which are not undertaking measures to prevent larvae formation. The city has witnessed 33 deaths from malaria since January this year. On Tuesday and Wednesday, guardian ministers Naseem …
NEW DELHI: An alert has been sounded in the city to control the spread of dengue. With the Commonwealth Games round the corner and the fear of a dengue epidemic looming large, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has said it will further intensify the spray of chemical larvicides. The …
Allaying fears about rising cases of dengue and chikungunya, Health and Civic officials on Tuesday asserted both the viral fevers were under control and no dengue deaths had been reported this year in Karnataka. "There is no cause for panic among the people about dengue and chikungunya fevers as both …
The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), which is facing difficulties in procuring an adequate amount of biolarvicide to combat the threat of rising cases of dengue, got a breather from the Delhi High Court on Monday as it dismissed a petition against the civic body
The mosquito Ae. albopictus is usually adapted to the peri-domestic environment and typically breeds outdoors. However, we observed its larvae in most containers within homes in northern peninsular Malaysia. To anticipate the epidemiological implications of this indoor-breeding, we assessed some fitness traits affecting vectorial capacity during colonization process. Specifically, we …
With three dengue cases reported in the taluk concerns over outbreak of chikungunya and dengue fever have resurfaced bringing back painful memories of the previous year when almost all the families suffered from either chikungunya or dengue and hospitals were crowded. Dengue, which appears five to six days after mosquito …
Private hospitals in the City are required to send patients' blood samples to the National Institute of Virology (NIV) or Public Health Institute (PHI) for confirming dengue and chikungunya cases even if they had a laboratory of their own, said V Ashok, BBMP's Additional Commissioner (Health). "Even if private hospitals …
For Malaria, an ounce of prevention is worth hundreds of pounds of cure, says Dr NADIA RANGEL PINTO The disease that is foremost in our minds during the monsoon is the parasitic disease Malaria. It is one of the oldest diseases, and transmitted by a familiar vector
Nagercoil: The officials of Department of Public Health have been geared up to monitor the outbreak of vector-borne diseases, particularly in the coastal areas of Kanyakumari district. Collector Rajendra Ratnoo has directed Deputy Director of Public Health M.Madusoodhanan to set up
Mumbai Mumbai accounts for nearly half the malaria cases in the state since April this year, and eight of the 11 deaths the disease has caused. The government will direct the BMC to book and penalise those flouting norms. Mumbai has the largest number of malaria deaths in the country, …
