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 …
NIZAMABAD, Oct. 20: North Telangana is reeling from dengue fever: the combined death toll in Nizamabad, Karimnagar, Adilabad and Warangal districts has reached 100. Though the disease has been claiming many in the last two months, the medical and health officials and Andhra Pradesh Vaidya Vidhana Parishad (APVVP) authorities have …
'Wallpapering' huts with sheeting made from insecticide-treated plastic could be a new tool for malaria control, research in Benin shows. When used in combination with insecticide-treated bednets (ITNs) in hut trials, the sheeting killed all mosquitoes, and completely prevented bites.
Corpn says there is no need to create panic ON a day when a reputed private hospital warned about the likely outbreak of dengue in the city, Chennai Corporation officials criticised the hospital, saying that there was no need to create panic. Doctors from Apollo Children's Hospital on Thursday said …
Drug administrators from the Directorate of Health Services with the support of various NGOs and voluntary organisations will fan out door-to-door across Goa to administer filaria tablets in an effort to meet the target of wiping out the disease completely by 2010 from the face of the State. Addressing a …
After a year, dengue has staged a comeback in a big way in the city. Though the district health authorities have no information in this regard, but seven patients suffering from dengue have been rushed to the DMC at Ludhiana. Two dengue patients belonged to the family of the PPCC …
The late monsoon has left behind a severe attack of dengue in the Capital, particularly in the Central Delhi and Civil Lines. Eighty cases of the viral fever have been reported in the last fortnight, civic authorities have said, adding that instances of dengue haemorrhagic fever (DHF) and dengue shock …
In all the 24 dengue-affected areas of State capital malaria office and Bhopal Municipal Corporation are jointly emitting smoke by fogging machine and killing the mosquitoes. This drive was started on October 9. Joint Director Health Bhopal division Dr AN Mittal informed that district malaria office has constituted 15 teams …
The Andhra Pradesh government faces its toughest task yet since the floods as it grapples with threats of outbreak of post-flood epidemics. Krishna, Kurnool, Guntur, Kadapa and Mahabubnagar districts, which were ravaged by the floods and remained underwater for six days, now face the possibility of the outbreak of cholera, …
In developing strategies to control malaria vectors, there is increased interest in biological methods that do not cause instant vector mortality, but have sublethal and lethal effects at different ages and stages in the mosquito life cycle. These techniques, particularly if integrated with other vector control interventions, may produce substantial …
Insecticide-treated hammocks could cut malaria rates in remaining pockets of high transmission in the forests of South-East Asia, researchers say. Hammocks made from nylon, ropes and an insecticide-treated bednet were given to 7,000 people in Ninh Thuan province in central Vietnam.
More than 3 million children < 5 years of age die each year from environment-related conditions, making the environment one of the most critical contributors to the > 10 million child deaths annually throughout the world [World Health Organization (WHO) 2005]. Some factors of susceptibility, including race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic …
Pune Even as swine flu has been taking its toll on the city in the last two months, two strains of the dengue virus have also been on the prowl, say city-based doctors. So much so that dengue patients are being wrongly diagnosed for swine flu due to the similarity …
FORTY-FOUR people died of Japanese encephalitis, a viral infection, at the Assam Medical College Hospital in Dibrugarh on July 28. The same day another 68 patients suffering from the viral disease were admitted to the hospital that receives patients from across the state. T R Borborah, principal of the medical …
Madhya Pradesh Congress Committee general secretary Captain Jaipal Singh in a statement issued here on Thursday accused the state government not taking seriously the deadly diseases like dengue and malaria falciparem fevers. He said that in most of the towns of the state number of dengue patients is increasing continuously …
MUMBAI: Another mosquito-borne disease is slowly making its presence felt in the city. The incidence of dengue, the viral disease spread by the colourful Tiger (Aedes Aegypti) mosquitoes, has been increasing. A number of doctors have observed that children, especially, are falling prey to the virus. Thane paediatrician Dr S …
Health officials are hoping continuation of the dry spell that would help them in bringing down cases of chikungunya caused by the aedes mosquitoes breeding of which have been facilitated by intermittent rains. Health charts continued to show focal outbreaks in various areas of the State. Test reports of 92 …
BHUBANESWAR: After diarrhoea, malaria is spreading in Western Orissa districts putting the efficacy of the health services to test. As diarrhoea has a long history in the State and takes heavy toll in the backward districts at regular intervals, malaria has emerged as the highest killer in the tribal- dominated …
New Delhi: Researchers in Malaysia have confirmed infections among humans with the Plasmodium knowlesi strain of malaria, which till now was believed to only infect monkeys, in particular the long-tailed and pig-tailed macaques. According to a study published in
Mumbai Civic authorities have started proceedings against managers and contractors at Wankhede Stadium, being redone for the 2011 World Cup, the neighbouring Bombay Hockey Association and two privately owned buildings in Churchgate for allowing the malaria parasite to breed. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) had sent them notices for having …
