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 …
Govt says there are close to 45,000 Indians in the affected countries. The government has finally woken up to the threat of Ebola Virus spreading from affected African nations. The The health ministry is making arrangements to examine passengers flying in from countries hit by the virus at the airports …
The worst Ebola outbreak on record is an “extraordinary event” and a public health risk to other countries, the World Health Organization said. “The possible consequences of further international spread are particularly serious in view of the virulence of the virus,” the Geneva-based United Nations health agency said. “A coordinated …
A fast-spreading Ebola epidemic sparked a state of emergency in overwhelmed West African nations on Thursday as the death toll neared 1,000 and an elderly Spanish missionary was evacuated for treatment at home. In Liberia, where the dead lay in the streets, lawmakers gathered to ratify a state of emergency …
As the death toll rises in West Africa amid the worst Ebola outbreak on record, a separate threat is compounding the problem: the rainy season and the malaria that comes with it. In Sierra Leone, with the most Ebola cases in the epidemic, a fearful population is failing to seek …
The World Health Organization will convene a panel of medical ethicists next week to explore the use of experimental treatments for Ebola amid the worst outbreak of the disease on record. An experimental antibody cocktail developed by Mapp Biopharmaceutical Inc. was used to treat two infected American health workers whose …
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has declared a state of emergency as the country grapples with an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus. Speaking on national television she said some civil liberties might have to be suspended. The Ebola outbreak has also hit Guinea, Sierra Leone and Nigeria, killing more …
Health workers in West Africa appealed on Wednesday for urgent help in controlling the world's worst Ebola outbreak as the death toll climbed to 932 and Liberia declared a state of emergency. "The government and people of Liberia require extraordinary measures for the very survival of our state and for …
Lagos has eight suspected cases of Ebola, all in people who came into contact with Nigeria's first victim who died last month, the health commissioner said on Tuesday, with one case confirmed. Authorities have been monitoring anyone who came into close contact with Patrick Sawyer, a Liberia and U.S. citizen …
Three of the world's leading Ebola specialists called on Tuesday for experimental drugs and vaccines to be offered to people in West Africa, where a vast outbreak of the deadly disease is raging in three countries. Noting that American aid workers who contracted the disease in Liberia were given an …
THE World Bank and the African Development Bank (AfDB) are preparing as much as $260 million in emergency funding to help Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea contain the spread of Ebola and limit its economic impact. The World Bank pledged as much as $200 million in response to calls by …
The Ministry of Health has issued a health alert regarding the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, although the Health Protection Agency (HPA) has said the risk is minimal for the Maldives. “We have discussed this with the WHO as well, the risk is minimal for Maldives,” said Dr Aishath Aroona, …
The World Bank has announced that it is allocating $200m (£120m) in emergency assistance for West African countries battling to contain the Ebola outbreak. The money will be distributed to the governments of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea as well as to the World Health Organization (WHO). The number of …
Confirmation of a diagnosis of tuberculosis in children (aged <15 years) is challenging; under-reporting can result even when children do present to health services. Direct incidence estimates are unavailable, and WHO estimates build on paediatric notifications, with adjustment for incomplete surveillance by the same factor as adult notifications. We …
Antibiotic drug consumption is a major driver of antibiotic resistance. Variations in antibiotic resistance across countries are attributable, in part, to different volumes and patterns for antibiotic consumption. The researchers aimed to assess variations in consumption to assist monitoring of the rise of resistance and development of rational-use policies and …
The World Health Organisation is launching a $100 million (59.25 million pounds) response plan to combat an "unprecedented" outbreak of Ebola in West Africa that has killed 729 people out of 1,323 infected since February, the U.N. agency said on Thursday. WHO Director-General Margaret Chan will meet in Conakry, Guinea …
Sierra Leone has declared a state of emergency and called in troops to quarantine Ebola victims, joining neighbouring Liberia in imposing controls as the death toll from the outbreak of the virus hit 729 in West Africa. The World Health Organisation said it would launch a $100 million response plan …
The number of newly discovered HIV cases in people aged 60 or older increased in Beijing in recent years. Men who have sex with men remain one of the key groups in which the city is intervening to stop the spread of HIV, said an official from the city's Center …
Liberia's president is closing the nation's schools and ordering non-essential government employees to stay home as the country battles an Ebola outbreak. Already, several airlines have halted their flights into Liberia amid a rising number of patients with one of the world's most virulent diseases. President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf also …
INDICATIONS emerged Wednesday that there is a growing fear across the globe, particularly in Europe and the United States (U.S.), that the Ebola outbreak in West Africa could spread to other regions. Already, the European Union (EU) has allocated extra spending over the disease. Meanwhile, following the death of a …
KATHMANDU, July 30: The number of HIV-infected people has touched 22 thousand and 994 in Nepal, the government latest report states. Of the HIV-infected in the country, 14 thousand and 561 are males, 8,407 are females and 26 third genders, according to the latest data provided by the National Centre …
