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 …
A three-year campaign intended to expand testing for H.I.V. and get people into treatment turned up more than 18,000 adults who were not aware that they were infected, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported last week. Over all, some 2.7 million H.I.V. tests were performed between October …
The E. coli bacteria that killed dozens of people in Germany over the past month have a highly unusual combination of two traits and that may be what made the outbreak among the deadliest in recent history, scientists there are reporting. An investigator at an organic farm in the village …
The death toll from the outbreak of E coli in Germany rose to 30 on Thursday as the Government admitted its failure in dealing with the worst bacterial epidemic in six decades. A 57-year-old man became the latest victim who travelled with his wife to the Northern city of Hamburg, …
The German government came under increased criticism on Tuesday at home and abroad, accused of mismanaging the crisis surrounding an E. coli outbreak that has killed more than 20 people. German officials, however, reported a slight fall in the rate of newly reported infections.
With 10 people dead of infection and 400 cases reported, the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control said Sunday that a bacterial outbreak in northern Germany was one of the largest of its kind ever reported worldwide. The infection, from a strain of Escherichia coli, can lead to kidney …
Vertex Pharmaceuticals won regulatory approval on Monday for a new hepatitis C drug, setting off a marketing battle with Merck over new drugs that are expected to improve the cure rate of the disease and shorten the duration of treatment. Incivek, as the drug will be called, is expected to …
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has frozen payments on hundreds of millions of dollars worth of disease-fighting grants to China, one of the charity
China has slashed AIDS mortality by nearly two-thirds since it began distributing free antiretroviral drugs in 2002, Chinese government scientists are reporting. About 63 percent of all those needing AIDS drugs are getting them, up from virtually zero in 2002. That has caused a 64 percent drop in mortality in
DRUG-resistant NDM-1 gene has been debated ever since India was identified a source of the gene in patients in the UK. The debate intensified on April 7, 2011, when the journal Lancet Infectious Disease published a paper which stated that the gene (New Delhi Metallo-betalactamase- 1) was found in tap …
People infected with the virus that causes AIDS are far less likely to infect their sexual partners if they are put on treatment immediately instead of waiting until their immune systems begin to deteriorate, according to preliminary results from a large clinical trial released Thursday. Patients with H.I.V. were 96 …
The causative agent of cholera, Vibrio Cholera, has been detected in two patients in Kalanki and Sitapaila in the Capital, according to the Sukraraj Tropical and Infectious Disease Hospital, Teku. Both the infected are women. Cholera is an acute intestinal infection caused by ingestion of food or water contaminated with …
World Health Statistics 2011 contains WHO’s annual compilation of health-related data for its 193 Member States, and includes a summary of the progress made towards achieving the health-related Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and associated targets.
In October 2010, a virulent South Asian strain of El Tor cholera began to spread in Haiti. Interventions have included treatment of cases and improved sanitation. Use of cholera vaccines would likely have further reduced morbidity and mortality, but such vaccines are in short supply and little is known about …
Madeleine C. Thomson and colleagues call on climate and health researchers, policy-makers and practitioners to work together to tackle infectious diseases.
Sri Lanka's health authorities have issued a warning on the possible increase of leptospirosis also known as rat fever in the country. The Health Ministry has said that several cases of rat fever have been reported from areas that were affected by the recent floods. According to the Ministry, the …
