PASIGHAT: The Pasighat district health department is going all out to control mosquito-transmitted diseases like malaria, dengue and recently detected Japanese Encephalitis (JE) in the district. Headed by the DMO Dr Kaling Dai, a team of doctors and officials in carrying outsource reduction activities followed by awareness programme, fogging and …
The death toll from dengue fever in the Maldives has reached three in two days with the latest death recorded this morning. Alhan Ahmed of Dhilbahaaruge/Baa atoll Thulhaadhoo, aged two and a half years, died at Indira Gandhi Memorial Hospital (IGMH) around 3am today after he was transferred from ADK …
Now, Mosquito Breeding Checkers Threaten To Go On Strike From July 1 New Delhi: Mosquitoes seem to have stolen a march on the rains this year. Even before the monsoon set in on Sunday, the city had recorded five cases of dengue and 21 of malaria. Doctors and municipal officials …
With the onset of monsoon City have sounded a warning bell against dengue and chikungunya. Two minor girls died at the Vanivilas Hospital recently, with symptoms that were similar to dengue. Although doctors did not confirm the two as dengue deaths, they said platelet counts in both cases had dropped …
The number of persons affected by Dengue has gone up drastically in June in Dakshina Kannada district. On?June 23, two persons were found affected with Dengue. They are Soumya Sridhar from Moodabidri Kallbettupadau and Bijay from Shiradi Ichlampady in Puttur. Likewise three cases have been suspected in Athur Kemral, 10 …
New Delhi: The total number of dengue cases reported this season has gone up to five after a 20-yearold girl admitted at a private hospital was diagnosed positive for the vector-borne disease. According to Dr D S Chadha, specialist, internal medicine, at Fortis Hospital, Vasant Kunj, the patient
Six H1N1 deaths have occurred in the State this year in Bangalore, Yadgir, Bellary, Shimoga, Davangere and Udupi districts, while the Health department had confirmed 31 cases of the disease, out of the 896 blood samples taken, said Health Minister B Sriramulu. Of the 31 cases, 22 were reported in …
The Health Ministry said yesterday a total of 7,948 dengue cases with 69 deaths had been reported so far this year. The Ministry’s Epidemiology Unit spokesman said they had identified several MOH areas as those badly affected by dengue – Colombo, Dehiwala, Nugegoda, Polonnaruwa, Maharagama and Padukka, Matugama and Panadura …
MUMBAI: In what is being labelled as the first dengue death of the season, a 46-year-old Navi Mumbai resident died of complications arising out of the mosquito-borne disease at Jaslok Hospital on Wednesday. Jayashree Jagdish Gadi was transferred from BARC Hospital in Anushakti Nagar to Jaslok Hospital in the wee …
The Health Ministry has set up National Dengue Death Audit units in 52 hospitals island-wide. There are 7,500 dengue patients and since January 2011, 66 people, including children have died of dengue. Of the 7,500 patients 65 per cent are adults, the Health Ministry said. Health Ministry media spokesman W. …
Of the 10,350 dengue cases reported in the island during the past six months, 60 deaths have been reported. No dengue deaths have been reported last week, a Health Ministry spokesman said. Health Minister Maithripala Sirisena participates in the fogging campaign at Serpentine Flats, Borella on Tuesday. "This is a …
Sri Lanka police environment division director Quintus Raymond says that 441 police environment units are active island wide to fight dengue threat. He said the police units will inspect the places to discover mosquito breeding grounds and take legal action against the offenders. Sri Lanka Ministry of Health has declared …
French drugs group Sanofi said that its vaccine against dengue, a mosquito-borne infection that kills thousands of people around the world each year, could be launched in about four years.
Nine cases of dengue fever have been reported in Thodupuzha. KATTAPPANA: A meeting was held at the district collectorate, Painavu, on Tuesday to review the steps taken to prevent the spread of viral diseases during the monsoon season. District Collector M.C. Mohandas directed the Health Department officials to intensify the …
Setting off early alarm bells, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi on Wednesday announced that it had detected breeding of dengue causing aedes mosquito at 33 areas in the Capital, including extensive breeding in the residential flats of the Delhi Police. Apart from the Delhi Police flats and police stations, the …
Some 905 cases of dengue with eight deaths have been reported in the city since January, the Colombo Municipality said yesterday. It said these figures were bound to rise further because of the heavy rains in some parts of the country. Colombo Municipality Chief Medical Officer Pradeep Kariyawasam said 222 …
In its battle against malaria, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has for the first time roped in private laboratories to give data on malaria and dengue cases across the city. Apart from the laboratory at the Kasturba Hospital and Haffkine Institute
The Colombo City is facing the worst dengue epidemic ever Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) said yesterday revealing that there had been 195 cases reported this month. CMC which dropped a bomb shell, said in and round the National Hospital Colombo, Military Hospital and vicinity of the Colombo Port had been …
The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has made it mandatory for all city hospitals to report dengue and chikungunya cases online. Nodal officers of all 596 hospitals in the city will provide the exact figures of people hit by dengue and chikungunya, who are undergoing treatment there. The MCD
