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 …
Health authorities launched an 11.5 million pounds ($17.4 million) plan on Monday to tackle Britain’s persistent tuberculosis problem, seeking to eradicate the contagious lung disease. Britain has one of the highest TB rates in western Europe, with London known as the continent’s TB capital. Rates in the United Kingdom are …
The potential for infectious pathogens to spillover and emerge from managed populations to wildlife communities is poorly understood, but ecological, evolutionary and anthropogenic factors are all likely to influence the initial exposure and subsequent infection, spread and impact of disease. Fast-evolving RNA viruses, known to cause severe colony losses in …
A expert committee formed by the Delhi Directorate of Health Services claimed that medically no death by swine flu has been reported in city. The committee said that all the four patients, who had died to swine flu were suffering from other diseases which were the primary reason behind their …
International conflict and water crises lead the list of Top 10 global risks, according to a survey by the World Economic Forum ahead of next week’s meeting in Davos. The 2015 report published today highlighted the most significant threats expected over the next decade, according to almost 900 WEF members …
Ebola spread throughout West Africa last year after the World Health Organization’s call for a global health corps went unheeded, the agency said today. A WHO review committee convened in 2010 in the aftermath of the swine flu epidemic called for international collaboration to form an “extensive global public health …
THE Government of Jamaica has signed an agreement with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to allocate US$250,000 of grant resources to improve national surveillance, prevention and control of infectious diseases like Ebola and Chikungunya. The grant will "strengthen the public health capacity within the Ministry of Health, to prevent and …
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) -- Even as his country registered 19 new Ebola cases over a 24-hour period, Sierra Leone's president is predicting there will be zero new confirmed cases by the end of March. President Ernest Bai Koroma also predicted that his West African country -- one of three …
TO further curb the growing influence of the dreaded Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has launched a free mobile Application to be used in the campaign against the disease in Africa and other part of the world. The "Ebola-Info-Sharing" mobile App facilitates coordination among organizations responding …
An HIV diagnosis can be life changing. Yet new medications and therapeutic treatments are making it easier for patients dealing with the virus to live normal lives. However, proper treatment and prevention methods are essential in the process. New findings published in the Journal of Community Health show that some …
A committee formed to review the four swine flu deaths in Delhi and identify the reasons for the “sudden surge” in cases this year has found that two of the victims were also diagnosed with other strains of influenza besides H1N1 virus. The five-member committee will now meet microbiologists to …
A 44-year-old woman from West Delhi died of swine flu on Monday, taking the total number of deaths due to the H1N1 virus to four in just seven days. Charan Singh, Additional Director in-charge of Public Health, Health Department, said, “The woman was undergoing treatment for various ailments and was …
AT least 212 villagers have been infected with HIV in a remote Roka commune in northwest Cambodia's Battambang province, the Cambodian Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization (WHO) jointly announced Saturday. "From Dec. 8 to 31, 2014, a total of 1,940 people from Roka commune voluntarily undertook HIV …
LONDON, England (AP) — The World Health Organization says the two leading Ebola vaccines appear safe and will soon be tested in healthy volunteers in West Africa. After an expert meeting this week, WHO said there is now enough information to conclude that the two most advanced Ebola vaccines — …
The national capital on Thursday reported the second death due to swine flu this year with a 30-year-old man from East Delhi succumbing to the H1N1 virus at a private hospital here. According to a senior official from the health department, the youth’s condition was critical and he was constantly …
Infectious diseases like Ebola and KFD are on the rise thanks to global warming and environmental degradation.(National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) A viral haemorrhagic disease similar to Ebola and dengue but not as fatal, is on the rise in parts of India. The Kyasanur Forest Disease (KFD) or …
PARIS – Scientists seeking a cure for AIDS said Wednesday they had found important clues about how HIV manages to skirt detection after being suppressed by drugs. The sleeping virus can harbor mutations that, like an invisibility cloak, help it evade detection by the immune system, they said. But there …
LAGOS -- The worst Ebola outbreak on record has killed 8,153 people out of the total number of 20,656 confirmed, probable and suspected cases, a mortality rate of 39 per cent, even as Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has announced the reopening of schools in the country from February 2. …
WITH the establishment of African Centre of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases (ACEGID) in Nigeria, a new innovation, Rapid Response Diagnostics Test, has been developed to detect incidence of Ebola virus within 15 minutes, according to the Vice Chancellor, Redeemer’s University (RUN), Prof. Debo Adeyewa. He said that the …
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today introduced The Art of Saving a Life project, a new initiative that brings together more than 30 world-renowned musicians, writers, filmmakers, painters, sculptors and photographers to demonstrate how vaccines continue to positively change the course of history. The Art of Saving a Life …
Conakry — As the Ebola epidemic continues to ravage parts of West Africa, health officials are intensifying their efforts on the ground. Now included in their arsenal is a mobile phone application that promises to speed their response to the outbreak. The app has been deployed in areas of Guinea …
