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 …
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. …
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 …
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 Public Health Department of the Colombo Municipal Council, which inspected 3,100 premises on Wednesday, found mosquito breeding grounds in 409 of them. 180 were given notice under the mosquito borne diseases ordinance. The Council was faced with an outbreak of chikungunya at the beginning of this year. The symptoms …
At a time when the spurt in vector borne diseases have caught both the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) and the state health department unaware, bureaucrats and politicians are busy passing the buck. And this has resulted in confusion over the fate of the dengue kits, which were sought by the …
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 …
LUCKNOW: The dreaded Japanese Encephalitis (JE) virus has, till now, claimed 398 lives in eastern UP with five more children succumbing to the virus in the past 36 hours. According to official sources, the number of patients suffering from Japanese Encephalitis who have been admitted to the Baba Raghav Das …
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, …
Of more than a thousand dengue patients reported at different hospitals in the province, 358 were tested positive. This was stated by Sindh Health Minister Dr Saghir Ahmed on Tuesday while issuing latest figures about the prevalence of dengue fever in Sindh. He said two more patients were brought to …
Dengue has claimed a life in Karnal while 18 of the 43 suspected dengue cases sent to the laboratory have tested positive. Suman of the Chand Serai area, who was admitted to a private local hospital and referred to Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, Delhi, reportedly died yesterday. Doctors at the …
Pune, October 21 Nine cases reported on Tuesday, malaria cases show decline. PCMC admn under fire With nine more dengue cases surfacing in Pimpri-Chinchwad on Tuesday, the total number of persons bitten by the aedes egyptia mosquito have risen to 62 from October 1. In the same 21- day period, …
T Purushottam Bhat is one of 70,493 recorded cases of chikungunya fever in eight Indian states. His 24-member family has 19 others who fell ill to the virus transmitted by mosquitoes. In Padre, a village set among the arecanut plantations of Kerala's Kasaragod district, the virus has left its mark …
T Purushottam Bhat is one of 70,493 recorded cases of chikungunya fever in eight Indian states. His 24-member family has 19 others who fell ill to the virus transmitted by mosquitoes. In Padre, a village set among the arecanut plantations of Kerala's Kasaragod district, the virus has left its mark …
Realising that the recent spread of the dengue virus in the districts and in the city could spell disaster in the post-puja days ~ particularly if two different types of dengue viruses are circulating in the state ~ the state health department has taken an initiative to detect the virus …
