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 …
Although Anopheles funestus is difficult to rear, it is crucial to analyse field populations of this malaria vector in order to successfully characterise mechanisms of insecticide resistance observed in this species in Africa. In this study we carried out a large-scale field collection and rearing of An. funestus from Mozambique …
Pune With the city having buckled under a volley of diseases during the last monsoon, particularly swine flu, the civic authorities are keeping their fingers crossed. While the health department registered a total of 240 swine flu deaths, officials at National Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune Municipal Corporation and Sassoon …
The possible links between climate change and health form one of the most controversial topics of our time. In this interview, Dr Colin Summerhayes talks about how the world
Hyderabad, May 30: The Chief Minister, Mr K. Rosaiah, on Sunday directed the health officials to prepare village-wise action plan to prevent spread of epidemics during monsoon, which is expected to hit the state this week. Cautioning the officials against the spread of water and vector borne diseases, the Chief …
Dar es Salaam has an extensive drain network, mostly with inadequate water flow, blocked by waste, causing flooding after rainfall. The presence of Anopheles and Culex larvae is common, which is likely to impact the transmission of lymphatic filariasis and malaria by the resulting adult mosquito populations. However, the importance …
A comparison of a recently published evidence-based map of the distribution of the Plasmodium falciparum malaria parasite with data from 1900, before the introduction of major malaria control measures, suggests that concerns that rising temperatures are a threat to malaria control efforts are misplaced. During a century when increases in …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The rising incidence of malaria in the coastal belt of Thiruvananthapuram district has raised serious concern as many cases detected are being `import cases
Keeping in view the onset of monsoon by the end of this month or the beginning of June, the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) Commissioner Bharat Lal Meena issued guidelines to the health department officials to check water-borne or vector-borne diseases. During a meeting on Tuesday with the officials including …
Comprehensive, longitudinal field studies that monitor both disease and vector populations for dengue viruses are urgently needed as a pre-requisite for developing locally adaptable prevention programs or to appropriately test and license new vaccines. The authors report the results from such a study spanning 5 years in the Amazonian city …
There has been increased interest in the possible impact of climate change on human health, particularly as it relates to the transmission of environmentally sensitive diseases such as malaria. Parham and Michael investigated the role that process-based mathematical models can play in providing strategic insights on the effects of climate …
New Delhi: The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) is collecting blood samples of labourers working at Commonwealth Games sites to screen them for malaria.
Builders across Goa have been found wanting in the vector-borne disease control programme of the Directorate of Health Services taking into account the fact that 85 per cent cases of malaria are reported from project areas (construction sites) where migrant (or construction) labourers work and reside. In an observation made …
Five districts have reported an outbreak of malaria recently, in Karnataka. Although the State is doing quite well in terms of implementing the Central Government's National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme (NVBDCP), malaria cases have been reported every year from endemic pockets. Of late, Bijapur has reported 436 cases, Bagalkot …
Goa Civic and Consumer Action Network (GOACAN) has called for a greater collaboration among government agencies to combat malaria. In a press note issued here, the GOACAN has said that there is a need for greater collaboration amongst government departments and corporations to combat malaria and other vector borne diseases …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: With 13 cases of malaria being reported from the coastal areas of the district during this month, the Health Department authorities have stepped up the drive against the disease. District Medical Officer Dr N. Sreedhar said that the number of malaria cases was quite high, compared to the previous …
