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 …
Almost 20 000 cases of Ebola virus disease have been reported in west Africa. Estimates of the reproductive ratio of the outbreak suggest that about half of infectious contacts need to be prevented to control the epidemic. The international response in the affected regions has focused mainly on establishing infrastructure …
With three deaths in Ahmedabad and one in Junagadh on Thursday, the total death toll due to swine flu in the state since January 1 this year now stands at 29. A total of 224 patients have tested positive at various hospitals in the state. On Thursday, 34 new patients …
WHO also added that the response to the Ebola epidemic has now moved to a second phase The number of new cases of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in the three worst-affected countries of Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia has fallen to the lowest level since late June, the World Health …
In evidence revealing that tamiflu is an effective medicine, results published in the Lancet have indicated that oseltamivir (tamiflu) significantly reduces the risk of influenza complications requiring antibiotics (such as pneumonia) and hospitalisations in adults infected with influenza. The most thorough analysis of oseltamivir (marketed as tamiflu) data to date, …
Seven deaths, 47 positive cases reported in the state With 45 positive cases and seven deaths in the state so far, swine flu, a communicable disease caused by H1N1 virus, has started giving sleepless nights to the authorities in the health department in Haryana. The disease remained virtually dormant in …
Monrovia — A new report by the Incident Management Team on Ebola has indicated that Grand Cape Mount County will soon join 13 other counties to be declared Ebola free. Liberia is striving hard to get to zero cases as the reopening of schools in the country is nearing. Speaking …
Scientists tracking the Ebola outbreak in Guinea say the virus has mutated. Researchers at the Institut Pasteur in France, which first identified the outbreak last March, are investigating whether it could have become more contagious. More than 22,000 people have been infected with Ebola and 8,795 have died in Guinea, …
33 Fresh Cases Take Count To 318 This Year At least three senior doctors and an intern working at Lok Nayak Hospital have been diagnosed positive for swine flu. All of them are in stable condition and have been put on Tamiflu--specific medication for the virus, said Dr Sidharth Ramji, …
The capital on Tuesday reported 26 new cases of swine flu, taking the total this year to 285, a health official said. He added that of the 77 persons tested on Tuesday, the results of 26 were found positive. While the State government has maintained that there is no cause …
Swine flu claimed four more lives including three women on Thursday, while another woman reportedly died of the H1N1 virus in Jamnagar on Wednesday evening. A 53-year-old woman from Ankleshwar town in Bharuch district was admitted to Apple Hospital at Udhna Darwaja in Surat detected with Swine flu on Wednesday. …
The Ebola epidemic seems to have reached a turning point, as cases fall in all three of the worst-hit countries of west Africa, according to World Health Organisation figures. Last week there were fewer than 150 cases reported, with Sierra Leone accounting for most of them – 117 of the …
An apparent link has been established between human population density and vegetation cover and the spread of the Ebola virus from animal hosts to humans. Researchers at SUNY Downstate Medical Center found a higher risk of animal to human transmission in areas with high human density and low vegetation. "These …
There has been a "turning point" in the Ebola crisis, with cases falling in the three affected countries, World Health Organization officials say. Just eight cases were detected in Liberia in the last week down from a peak of 500-a-week in September. Guinea and Sierra Leone have also seen falls. …
Ebola is the single biggest threat to the survival of gorillas and chimpanzees, having wiped out a third of their populations since the 1990s. With mortality rates as high as 95% for gorillas and 77% for chimpanzees, the virus constitutes a bigger threat to the apes than humans, says an …
With a 35-year-old woman on Wednesday testing positive for the swine flu, the number of people infected by the H1N1 virus here in the new year has reached six, including the four persons who died. The woman, hailing from Harda district, was admitted to a private hospital on January 16. …
PARIS – A lethal health crisis is brewing in Russian-annexed Crimea and war-torn eastern Ukraine, where heroin users have lost access to therapy to wean them off the drug, the U.N.’s AIDS envoy said Wednesday. Out of 805 people in Crimea who before the annexation were receiving opioid substitution therapy …
At least 11 persons have died of swine flu at various hospitals in Hyderabad in the last 30 days, while over 150 people have tested positive for the H1N1 virus. Two doctors of Gandhi General Hospital and one from Osmania General Hospital have also tested positive to swine flu on …
Four persons have died due to swine flu and 14 have tested positive for the virus in Haryana since January 1. The state Health Department has dispatched stocks of Tamiflu to all districts for patients suffering from swine flu after deaths were reported from Faridabad, Hisar, Jind and Fatehabad. Adequate …
Swine flu has started raising its ugly head over Kutch region once again. In the last two weeks 29 cases of swine flu, including one death, has been reported in this region. The Kutch district collectorate has already issued strict instructions to his district health staff to identify early cases …
BAMAKO – Mali’s health minister declared the West African nation free of Ebola on Sunday following a 42-day period without a new case of the deadly virus. Mali recorded six deaths from Ebola, which, according to World Health Organization data, has killed more than 8,400 people in neighboring Guinea, Sierra …
