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 …
Mumbai: Doctors across the city agree that construction work is the chief cause of the current bout of malaria in the city. In June this year, over 3,500 patients with malaria were admitted to hospitals, while over 1,250 have been hospitalised since July. Five patients have succumbed to the mosquito-borne …
Traps baited with synthetic human odors have been proposed as suitable technologies for controlling malaria and other mosquito-borne diseases. We investigated the potential benefits of such traps for preventing malaria transmission in Africa and the essential characteristics that they should possess so as to be effective.
Malaria remains the most prevalent vector-borne infectious disease and has the highest rates of fatality. Current antimalarial drug strategies cure malaria or prevent infections but lack a sustained public health impact because they fail to expedite the acquisition of protective immunity.
Saligao Zilla Parishad member Michael Lobo has carried out preventive measures to control the rise of malaria in Nagoa-Arpora. Acting on a Herald report highlighting the rise of malaria in Nagoa-Arpora Panchayat jurisdiction, Saligao ZP member Lobo immediately swung into action, after residents called on him to carry out preventive …
While two cases of dengue have been confirmed in the Capital, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has admitted it does not have any biolarvicide to combat the threat of dengue and malaria, with the Delhi High court passing a restraining order over the procurement of the same earlier last …
Calls for the eradication of malaria require the development of global and regional strategies based on a strong and consistent evidence base. Evidence from the previous global malaria eradication program and more recent transborder control campaigns have shown the importance of accounting for human movement in introducing infections to areas …
Mumbai: A snorkel of Mumbai fire brigade, which is used to save people trapped in high-rise fires, will now save Mumbaikars from malaria. The BMC will use snorkels to enter the compound of defunct mills to control the mosquito breeding by fogging. In South Mumbai, there are many closed textile …
Mumbai: This monsoon, all schoolchildren have been forewarned and are forearmed for the rains. At the Monsoon and Child Health, a monsoon preparation campaign conducted by Billabong High International School, Santa Cruz, Dr Bhupendra Awasthi meted out advice to students about how to avoid falling ill this monsoon. “Apply mosquito …
Malaria is the most prevalent vector-borne disease in the Amazon. We used malaria reports for health districts collected in 2006 by the Programa Nacional de Controle da Mal
RAYAGADA: As many as four children have died of several water-borne diseases in Sanabacha village in Kashipur block within three weeks and 30 persons diagnosed with malaria in the same village. Kasipur CdPO Nalini Bairagi informed that the deceased have been identified as Bina Majhi (13), Binod Majhi (5), Nandini …
On a global tour to raise one million dollars for eradicating malaria, a single engined turboprop aircraft of Australia's GippsAero, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Mahindra Aerospace, has arrived in Bangalore. The eight-seater GA8-TC Airvan, which took off from Bendigo in Victoria (Australia) on May 8 on a world tour, sponsored …
Poornima Nataraj Bangalore, June 23, DHNS The rainy season has not only shown the lack of preparedness by civic agencies, but has also led to new mosquito related health outbreaks in the City. The State Health Department has reported 251 dengue cases and 310 chikungunya cases this year from January …
M. Dinesh Varma Through online mapping of epidemiological data Two-year project is funded by the IT Ministry The software will also be designed to generate mobile alerts CHENNAI: An IT Ministry-funded project is under way to help health administrators frame emergency responses to outbreak of swine flu and other vector-borne …
To prevent malaria from spreading in the city, an awareness camp was organised in the Mauli Jagran colony on Wednesday. District Family Officer Dr Rajiv Vadhera, while inaugurating the camp, said there was an urgent need to involve people in the National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme. Malaria and State …
N. Gopal Raj After heading for eradication in the 1950s and 1960s, malaria has had a resurgence in India. Now a study that has just been published suggests that the most dangerous form of the disease could be at levels much higher than previously estimated. In 1953 when a national …
The epidemiology of malaria makes surveillance-based methods of estimating its disease burden problematic. Cartographic approaches have provided alternative malaria burden estimates, but there remains widespread misunderstanding about their derivation and fidelity. The aims of this study are to present a new cartographic technique and its application for deriving global clinical …
As many as 565 cases of suspected malaria were reported from Picchaguntlahalli, Minajenahalli and Yalagondlahalli in the taluk between May 19 and June 13. Of them, 58 cases were found to be positive. According to Health Officer Dr Shridhar, the patients are being treated and a team of doctors have …
Mumbai: Stung by the fact that 60% of malarial deaths in the city last year were due to late diagnosis, as patients medicated themselves for fever instead of visiting a doctor, the civic body is taking no chances this time. And who better to rope in to ensure victims reach …
