Vector Borne Diseases

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding pollution of Godavari river, Telangana, 29/05/2025

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 …

Himachal Pradesh on dengue alert after 401 test positive

The government is providing free of cost medical check-up facility in dengue cases and free medicines are also being distributed. Health Minister Kaul Singh Thakur on Tuesday directed the state health authorities to take all precautionary steps to prevent further spread of dengue after 401 positive cases being recorded in …

More dengue deaths reported from hospitals

KOLKATA: A 19-year-old New Town girl and a 35-year-old man from Kadihati died of dengue at the Beliaghata ID Hospital and the Calcutta Medical College Hospital, respectively, in the past two days. Riya Sarkar, a resident of New Town's Pramod Nagar, was first taken to the Beliaghata hospital on November …

At 2,253, dengue cases at an all-time high in Mohali

Dengue cases in Mohali district have reached a record high this year. As many as 2,253 cases have been reported so far, the highest in the past eight years. Of the 10 suspected cases of dengue deaths, four have been confirmed. In Mohali city, the number of cases has crossed …

Dengue cases climb to 8,063 in Delhi

Of the total 8,063 cases of dengue, 4,188 patients belonged to Delhi. Patients from other states who came to the city for treatment numbered 3,875, the report said. The number of dengue cases recorded till November 6 had stood at 7,358. At least 705 fresh cases of dengue have been …

Assessing current temporal and space-time anomalies of disease incidence

Approaches used to early and accurately characterize epidemiologic patterns of disease incidence in a temporal and spatial series are becoming increasingly important. Cluster tests are generally designed for retrospective detection of epidemiologic anomalies in a temporal or space-time series. Timely identification of anomalies of disease or poisoning incidence during ongoing …

‘Unknown’ virus likely new variant of dengue, chikungunya, not Zika

7 more dengue cases reported, total number of patients 112 Confusion was created due to delay in sending pathological samples of suspected patients, which actually raised doubts on the ‘unknown’ virus. Health department will send more samples to virology labs in Bhopal and Jabalpur to get clear picture and overcome …

Mumbai: City records highest Dengue deaths in last 3 years

Mumbai: Even as several parts of India are in the grip of severe dengue outbreaks, the city had recorded the highest number of dengue death in last three years across the state with 14 deaths from 788 total cases, data from civic body revealed. Officials said that the figure is …

Dengue onslaught reaches the city's posh localitie

KOLKATA: Dengue onslaught is not sparing posh localities in the city. A 62-year-old Dengue positive woman, a resident of Ballygunge Circular Road died late on Wednesday. While the state was filing a report on Dengue in the Calcutta High Court on Thursday, the grieving family of Sampat Devi Baid was …

Mosquito sites need mapping

Simply destroying mosquito eggs has proven not to be effective in the control of the menace. Hyderabad: Simply destroying mosquito eggs has proven not to be effective in the control of the menace; there is a need for spatiotemporal mapping to develop a model which will help identify, and target, …

Karnataka accounts for more than half of nation's chikungunya cases

More than half of the chikungunya cases in the country are suspected to be from Karnataka. According to National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme (NVBDCP), Karnataka has recorded around 25,800 clinically suspected cases of chikungunya out of 47,500 cases across the country. The state is followed by Gujarat (5,896) and …

Anti-dengue sanitation drive held in Shoolagiri

Fines to the tune of Rs. 1.06 lakh was imposed during a series of inspections carried out by Collector C.Kadiravan as part of the anti-dengue sanitation drive in Shoolagiri on Wednesday. An unkempt open plot in Anna Nagar here attracted a fine of Rs. 50,000 to the plot owner. Mr. …

Dengue: Education department cracks whip on pvt schools

Tiruvannamalai: Going beyond the academics and curriculum, the education department in Tiruvannamalai district have forced the private and nursery schools to fall in line for not taking up the anti-dengue awareness programme seriously to tackle the deadly disease. The managements of the nursery and primary schools in the district have …

Dengue scare: City hospitals overflow with patients

BHOPAL: For the second year in a row, over 1,000 peoplehave tested positive for vector-borne diseases like chikungunya and dengue in the state capital. Health department steps to control the spread of deadly diseases are yet to show results, with police being called in at Hamidiahospital to control the large …

Dengue, ‘mystery fever’ claim five

KOLKATA: Dengue claimed yet another life while four others in the city and its suburbs died of a 'mystery fever' whose symptoms resembled that of the killer virus since Monday. In at least one instance, the death certificate states the cause was 'fever of unknown origin with NS1-reactive', a phrase …

Malaria breath test shows promise

People with malaria give off a distinctive "breath-print" that could be used as a test for the disease, according to American scientists. They had already tried out a crude prototype breathalyser in Africa, a tropical medicine conference heard. The test was reasonably good at detecting cases in children, but needs …

Delhi reports highest number of malaria cases in last four years

NEW DELHI: Once again malaria has broken the record of last four years. According to latest reports released by the anti-malaria headquarters of the South Delhi municipal corporation till November 4 altogether 552 cases of malaria have been reported while 423 cases were reported for the same period in 2016, …

Dengue menace: Opposition councillors stage protest against mayor

KOLKATA: CPM councillors staged a protest demonstration against Kolkata mayor Sovan Chatterjee on Monday accusing him of failing to take effective measures to tame the dengue outbreak in the city. The protest came a day after Chatterjee and several TMC councillors conducted a drive to spray bleaching powder and larvacide …

Winter sets in, experts expect decline in dengue cases

While the dengue cases continue to surface, experts hope that there would be substantial improvement in the situation in the coming week. “The winter has started setting in. I hope that there would be substantial fall in the dengue cases from the next week,” said Dr AP Singh, a private …

Kolkata Municipal Corporation conducts dengue awareness campaign

KOLKATA: Kolkata Municipal Corporation mayor Sovan Chatterjee and several other KMC MMIC members and councillors took up a dengue awareness campaign in their respective wards by themselves on Sunday morning by spreading bleaching powder and spraying larvaecide. Mayor Sovan Chatterjee was seen spreading bleaching powder at Behala. "Comparing statistics of …

Dengue claims three lives in October

MUMBAI: Monsoon claimed five lives on its way out in the month of October, a civic report stated on Thursday. While dengue killed three people, malaria and hepatitis claimed a life each. With 17 deaths, dengue has emerged as the top killer this monsoon. Among the deceased in October were …

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