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 …
Epidemiology Unit of the Health Ministry urges people to take precautions against the spread of diseases such as dengue and leptospirosis (rat fever) due to heavy rains. Ministry spokesman W. M. D. Wanninayake said that 4210 dengue cases had been reported during the last four months and 36 persons had …
Sri Lanka's Health Ministry has alerted the public of possible outbreaks of dengue and leptospirosis (rat fever) due to the prevailing rainy weather. According to the Epidemiology Unit of the Health Ministry 31 deaths from leptospirosis have been recorded among 2,785 cases so far this year. The month of March …
The MCD has made it mandatory for all 33 sentinel surveillance hospitals to report all dengue and chikungunya cases online to do away with the problem of under-reporting of cases. The nodal officers of the hospitals have been trained to report the cases online, said an MCD official. All the …
With summers arriving in the city soon, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) on Wednesday said it will procure chemicals, biolarvicides and other material to prevent mosquito-breeding. The Standing Committee of the MCD has approved four proposals for purchase of chemicals to prevent vector-breeding
DISEASES like dengue and yellow fever are transmitted by the mosquito Aedes aegypti. The mosquito originated in sub-Saharan Africa, where some of its populations still breed in forests and feed on animals. Many of its populations, however, have evolved to thrive in human habitats in and outside Africa. It is …
Thai scientists have successfully produced the world's first dengue hemorrhagic fever vaccine and will let the private sector improve it for the effective treatment of patients. The Thailand Ministry of Science and Technology has introduced the world's first live attenuated dengue hemorrhagic fever vaccine developed by Thailand researchers. Thai Science …
The Pediatric Dengue Vaccine Initiative (PDVI) is a product development partnership (PDP) based at the International Vaccine Institute (IVI) in Seoul, Korea, and is supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. PDPs are nonprofit entities that seek to accelerate the development, evaluation, and introduction of vaccines, drugs, devices, diagnostics, …
The public should be properly consulted ahead of any release of experimental insects. But what do they need to know, and whose job is it to ensure the message gets across? (Editorial)
Kuala Lumpur: Malaysia released about 6,000 genetically modified mosquitoes into a forest in the first experiment of its kind in Asia aimed at curbing dengue fever, officials said on Wednesday. The field test is meant to pave the way for the use of genetically engineered Aedes aegypti male mosquitoes to …
The National Institute of Virology (NIV) has alerted medical establishments in Maharashtra to keep an eye on any patients of dengue showing Congo virus-like symptoms. This move is aimed at ruling out the presence of the newly-identified virus, initial infection signs of which bear resemblance to dengue haemorrhagic fever.
The health ministry's refusal to allow the use of a highly potent mosquito control agent developed by one of its own institutes and granting permission to an imported product, has kicked up a controversy. At stake is not only a Rs.1,000 crore (approx $220 million) market, but also the eradication …
Even as several issues of field testing of genetically modified mosquitoes to fight malaria and dengue are being debated, Oxitec, a British company founded and part-owned by the University of Oxford, carried out the world's first open field trial last year. The trials to test the efficacy of genetically modified …
Australia's scientists are trying to wipe out dengue fever by a groundbreaking scheme of field trial that could save tens of thousands of lives each year, the Australian Associated Press reported on January 3. They have developed a bacterium that acts as a vaccine for mosquitoes, which could in turn …
It was a year of respite for the City plagued with H1N1 influenza outbreak in 2009. The threat of the viral fever receded with the launch of two indigenous vaccines.The City witnessed two deaths due to dengue and chikungunya, but there was none in the Palike
Software will also help Health department track and manage dengue hotspots better Come New Year, and Delhi will get a first-of-its-kind, coloured, 3D-mapping system representing the Delhi government
The Health Ministry says that fifty percent institutions and schools within the Colombo City area have mosquito larvae and possible mosquito breeding places. Spokesman for the Health Ministry said that 55 institutions and 58 schools within the Colombo City had been inspected by thirty inspection units during the National Dengue …
In January, entomologists will start deploying a strange bacterium called Wolbachia pipientis in an attempt to halt disease transmission by mosquitoes. Their target is Aedes aegypti, the mosquito that transmits dengue, a human viral disease that causes crippling joint and muscle pains. Recent studies have shown that infection with Wolbachia …
The Health Ministry announced its third dengue control week from today (1) to December 7. Health Minister Maithripala Sirisena, addressing a press conference, said that this would be the third dengue control week since April and that it was being conducted as a preventive measure in the wake of monsoonal …
The number of dengue cases has seen a decline over a fortnight in Delhi, even as cases of several other viral infections, including chikungunya and seasonal fever, seem to maintain a rising trend. The MCD has recorded 23 fresh cases of dengue today, pushing the cumulative count of people affected …
