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 …
Kenya plans to progressively increase domestic funding for combating malaria in order to eradicate malaria by 2030, an official said on Monday. Erjesa Waqo, Head of the National Malaria Control Programme (NMCP) at the Ministry of Health, told a media briefing in Nairobi that currently government financing constitutes only about …
DEHRADUN: A year after Uttarakhand witnessed over 700 cases of dengue; the Dehradun Municipal Corporation (DMC) has decided to initiate steps at the earliest to check spread of malaria and dengue in the city. As part of the plan, testing of water samples from across the city will be done …
The Delhi Court on Wednesday said the authorities are misleading the court with regard to action taken towards cleaning Delhi and prevention of dengue and chikungunya. Delhi has to breathe, people of the city cannot be allowed to die because of garbage and vector-borne diseases such as dengue and chikungunya, …
KOLKATA: The New Town Kolkata Development Authority (NKDA) has decided to spray Bacillus Thuringiensis Israelensis (BTI) , a kind of bacteria that destroys mosquito larvae, to prevent dengue outbreak in the township. NKDA officials said that BTI will be sprayed using a hand compression machine having a tank capacity of …
In the PIL, filed in the Bombay High Court on Tuesday, the NGO stated that doctors commonly use the rapid antibody test kits for initiating treatment for malaria. Days after the central government banned manufacture, distribution and sale of rapid diagnostic test kits to detect the antibody for malaria, the …
The number of dengue cases has reached 25 this year, according to a data released by the South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) on Monday. The number of people affected by malaria and chikungunya stands at four and three, respectively. Out of 25 cases of dengue, 13 patients belong to neighbouring …
In a bid to resist another dengue outbreak in the national Capital, the civic bodies have stepped up measures to check mosquito breeding in both residential and isolated areas. From conducting anti-larval activities to door-to-door visits, all three Delhi Municipal Corporations -- North, East and South -- are trying to …
Blaming the rising number of malaria incidents to the wrong diagnosis in the private sector, the Government has banned antibody test kits (serological tests) which is being rampantly used by the private medical practitioners to detect the vector-borne disease in the country. Intriguingly, diagnostic test for malaria based on the …
Entomology staff accused of forging residents’ signatures. Hyderabad: The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has managed to clear hyacinth from around 20 lakes and water tanks out of the total 81 identified this year. The presence of hyacinth in the lake had caused massive mosquito menace near the lakes. Residents …
THE health ministry yesterday declared Congo fever an outbreak after the death of a Keetmanshoop man at the Windhoek Central Hospital on Tuesday, and the hospitalisation of two others. Health minister Bernard Haufiku confirmed the death of 37-year-old Hendrik Hartebees yesterday. He said the case registered on Tuesday could be …
Abuja — Nigeria loses an estimated N300 billion annually to treatment and prevention, including loss of man-hours annually to malaria, the National Malaria Eradication Programme (NMEP) has stated. It said Artemisinin-based Cobination Therapy (ACTs) remains the recommended medicine for malaria as stated by the World Health Organisation, as the use …
The summer season is an invitation to diseases such as dengue, malaria and chikungunya. If little care is taken, then one can easily save himself/herself from the vector borne disease. The first formula to ward off mosquitoes from the house is to plant few plants in and around the house …
The vector-borne disease had affected 9,271 people here in 2017. At least 10 cases of dengue have been reported in Delhi in the first three months this year, indicating an early spread of the virus carrying the vector-borne disease in the national capital. According to the latest municipal report, of …
Although Plasmodium vivax infection is a frequent cause of malaria worldwide, severe presentations have been more regularly described only in recent years. In this setting, despite clinical descriptions of multi-organ involvement, data associating it with kidney dysfunction are relatively scarce. Here, renal dysfunction is retrospectively analyzed in a large cohort …
KOLKATA: It has been suspected ever since dengue outbreaks started turning frequent earlier this decade. Now, it’s official. Kolkata and Bengal are now more prone to dengue serotypes II and IV, instead of I and III that have traditionally been predominant in the region. An analysis of blood samples collected …
BENGALURU: It’s not just the mercury that’s soaring, mosquito menace in the city is on the rise too, say Bengalureans. In fact, residents wary of the deadly bites and related vector-borne diseases are pouring their woes on social media forums. On BBMP’s Sahaya app, a citizen-centric service interface, many residents …
Acute encephalitis syndrome (AES) is a dreaded disease in India including the state of Bihar. Every year several people specially children, succumb to this disease and often the survivors are left with permanent residual disorders. The present research throws light on specific etiological agents that may cause AES and have …
More than 78 lakh houses across the state were screened in a door-to-door screening campaign for seasonal diseases like dengue, chikungunya and malaria including swine flu by the health department. The three-day long campaign, ‘Swasthya Dal Aapke Dwar’ (health team at your doorstep), was carried out from March 21 to …
Antenatal exposure to Zika virus (ZIKV) is related to severe neurological manifestations. A previous study in Brazil reported an increased incidence of non-severe congenital heart defects in infants with diagnosis of congenital Zika syndrome but without laboratory confirmation of ZIKV infection in the mother or infant. The objective of this …
The goal of the global lymphatic filariasis (LF) program is to eliminate the disease as a public health problem by the year 2020. The WHO mapping protocol that is used to identify endemic areas in need of mass drug administration (MDA) uses convenience-based sampling. This rapid mapping has allowed the …
