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 …
Religious festivals attract a large number of pilgrims from worldwide and are a potential risk for the transmission of infectious diseases between pilgrims, and to the indigenous population. The gathering of a large number of pilgrims could compromise the health system of the host country. The threat to global health …
Mass gatherings are regarded as potential risks for transmission of infectious diseases, and might compromise the health system of countries in which they are hosted. The evidence for increased transmission of infectious diseases at international sporting mass gatherings that attract many visitors from all over the world is not clear, …
The revised international health regulations offer a framework that can be used by host countries to organise public health activities for mass gatherings. From June 8, to July 1, 2012, Poland and Ukraine jointly hosted the Union of European Football Associations European Football Championship Finals (Euro 2012). More than 8 …
Infectious diseases of poverty, also labeled tropical diseases or neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) and caused by pathogenic agents (viruses, bacteria, fungi, and other parasites), are viciously more prevalent among poor people. Though being preventable for the most part in a cost-effective way, they are devastating. These are, to name a …
Emergence of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in the animal reservoir forms a risk for human health. The use of antimicrobials in animals is the major cause of development of AMR in bacteria in animals. In the 1990s, the use of antimicrobials in animals, particularly as a growth promoter, led to alarming …
The number of people in Japan newly diagnosed with HIV and AIDS rose slightly in 2013, according to government figures. The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare’s National AIDS Surveillance Committee said this month that 1,106 people in Japan contracted HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, in 2013. It said …
HIV-Aids has taken its toll on Dalit settlement at Jogbudha VDC in the district. Aids (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) is a chronic, potentially life-threatening condition caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). By damaging your immune system, HIV interferes with your body’s ability to fight the organisms that cause disease. Chandra …
The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare says that in 2013, 484 individuals in Japan were newly diagnosed with AIDS. This is the largest number ever for a one-year period since the ministry began tracking AIDS in 1985. Similarly, the overall number of people newly confirmed as HIV positive, was …
Doctors said the virus manifests itself much stronger in adults, with longer episodes of the disease, than in children. Cases of chicken pox are on the rise in the capital, with nearly 300 cases already reported. The MCD’s Maharishi Valmiki Infectious Disease (MVID) hospital has confirmed the death of one …
Islamabad—Around 420,000 people develop active tuberculosis each year in the country with 65 percent case detection rate. According to available data, remaining 35 percent of tuberculosis patients which is around 147,000, develop the diseases during each year but do not participate in screening programme. It said this 35 percent patients …
The study was conducted by the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDRB) A study has found that more than 50% of the health workers in different chest disease hospitals are suffering from latent tuberculosis. The overall prevalence of latent TB infection among healthcare workers in the four state-run …
World Health Statistics 2014 contains WHO’s annual compilation of health-related data for its 194 Member States, and includes a summary of the progress made towards achieving the health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and associated targets. This year, it also includes highlight summaries on the ongoing commitment to end preventable maternal …
Recently, the dilemma of human–wildlife conflict has created great opportunity to solve some of the world’s most pressing problems for both people and ecosystems. The emerging “One Health” movemen explicitly recognizes the inextricable connections between human, animal, and ecosystem health and is leading not only to new scientific research but …
Measles stalked and hunted down three more children as the government made a belated admission of children’s deaths from the infectious disease in Sujawal and Thatta districts and announced on Monday a 12-day campaign (May 19 to 31) in the entire province for vaccination against measles. With the latest casualties, …
In late 2010, Haitian immigrants began to arrive at remote river border crossings in the western Brazilian Amazon. Attracted by the prospect of work in Brazil's burgeoning economy, thousands of Haitians paid large sums to people traffickers, known as “coyotes,” to arrange their journey to Brazil. They entered Brazil through …
The recent emergence of Zaire ebolavirus in West Africa has come as a surprise in a region more commonly known for its endemic Lassa fever, another viral hemorrhagic fever caused by an Old World arenavirus. Yet the region has seen previous ebolavirus activity. In the mid-1990s, scientists discovered Côte d'Ivoire …
There are 226 HIV/AIDS infected people so far in Baglung district. According to statistics of the District HIV/AIDS Coordination Committee, of them 99 are men and 97 are women. Similarly, 30 children below 16 years including 10 girls are HIV/AIDS infected, said Committee coordinator Pradeep GC. Of them, 108 people …
Ebola virus disease (formerly known as Ebola haemorrhagic fever) is a severe, often fatal illness, with a death rate of up to 90%. The illness affects humans and nonhuman primates (monkeys, gorillas, and chimpanzees). Ebola first appeared in 1976 in two simultaneous outbreaks, one in a village near the Ebola …
An outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in West Africa, with onset in early February 2014, is evolving in Guinea and Liberia. This is the first such outbreak in the area. The first cases were reported from the forested region of south-eastern Guinea. As of 7 April 2014, the Ministry …
As many as 116 patients have been found suffering from tuberculosis (TB) in the district in this fiscal year, said Krishna Prasad Subedi, TB Inspector at the District Public Health Office. Likewise, of them 56 were suffered from communicable, 39 from non-communicable and 21 were from other types of tuberculosis, …
