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 …
The researchers studied the epidemiology of cholera in Katanga and Eastern Kasai, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, by compiling a database including all cases recorded from 2000 through 2005. Results show that lakes were the sources of outbreaks and demonstrate the inadequacy of the strategy used to combat cholera. …
Tetanus, diphtheria still prevalent among children Alpha Arzu Most of six fatal childhood diseases have noticeable prevalence despite much-hyped national vaccination campaigns for more than two decades with government leaders claiming near-total coverage. The lone state-run Infectious Diseases Hospital in Dhaka still receives a large number of children with tetanus, …
Enlarge View an international research team has provided the first scientific evidence that deadly emerging diseases have risen steeply across the world, and has mapped the outbreaks' main sources. Emerging diseases are those caused by newly identified pathogens, or old ones moving to new regions. Researchers analyzed 335 episodes of …
David Gartner, senior counsel of U.S.-based Global AIDS Alliance, expressed hope Friday that Japan would take a lead in addressing global health problems in July's Group of Eight summit. "At last year's G-8 summit, the leaders promised to provide at least $60 billion to reach the commitment to universal access …
India is home to nearly one-fifth of the global burden of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis cases and this could ruin its national tuberculosis control programme, warns the latest annual tuberculosis report card released by a non-government organisation, Global Health Advocates. "The consequences of not maintaining a consistently high quality of services …
The increase in the drop out rate of tuberculosis patients during treatment and a rise in treatment failures is adding to India's multi-drug resistant TB cases. Drug resistance occurs when patients are not treated with standard treatment protocols or when they discontinue treatment. Presenting the India TB Control Report Card …
Poor hygiene, addiction to tobacco, poverty and illiteracy are attributed to be some of the main reasons for the prevalence of tuberculosis (TB) among tribals in the Agency areas and the poor in urban slums in both East and West Godavari districts. A large number of tribals and general public, …
District collector Sailaja Ramaiyer has called upon doctors, Dot workers and NGOs to work collectively to check tuberculosis (TB) in the district. The collector was the chief guest at a meeting organised to mark the World Tuberculosis (TB) Day y Krishna District TB Control Society and Krishna District TB Association …
The village of Palli about 10 km from Cheyyar in Tiruvannamalai district was agog with activity after 5 p.m. on Sunday. The villagers, including several children, squatted on the ground in front of the Panchayat Union Elementary School while many stood at a distance and watched the members of Gipsy …
A tuberculosis research expert today said the world urgently needs a new drug for TB to provide relief to the ailing patients. In a statement issued on the eve of the World TB Day, Dr Balganesh, head of research at AstraZeneca, said, "With new societal changes, impacting the immune system, …
BANGKOK, Thailand: Rabbit fever, a disease that can be lethal if not treated early, has killed a woman in Thailand, marking the country's first reported case, a health official said Wednesday. The 37-year-old woman from Prachuap Khiri Khan province, about 230 kilometers (149 miles) south of Bangkok, died last month …
Government Epidemiologists yesterday warned the public who developed symptoms of Leptospirosis (Rat Fever) to immediately consult the MOH or the PHI in the area to get the prophylaxis (injection) as a safeguard against the killer disease. Health Ministry's Chief Epidemiologist Dr. Nihal Abeysingha told the media yesterday that Leptospirosis had …
Disease remains a "stubborn threat' to public health, says report Responsible for almost 10 per cent of AIDS-related deaths India loses 100 million productive workdays every year because of TB Businesses around the world have been urged to play a more active role in tackling health problems among their workforce, …
An integrated approach is needed to face the challenges of human and animal diseases, as climate change contributes to emergence of new infectious diseases, experts told a seminar yesterday. The British Council organised the seminar titled 'Infectious diseases: A vision for future detection, identification and monitoring' as part of a …
Pneumonia has been claiming the highest number of child lives in the country, despite a remarkable progress in under-five child survival for immunization and oral saline over the last three decades, pediatricians and health scientists said here yesterday. "Pneumonia is still the leading cause of childhood deaths in Bangladesh,' Steve …
Non-communicable diseases (NCD) or lifestyle diseases may not have appeared among the top ten diseases in the country, but they were increasing at an alarming rate and were an unwelcome addition to infectious diseases, which were still of grave concern to the health of the Bhutanese, say health officials. Figures …
Although vaccination has almost eliminated measles in parts of the world, the disease remains a major killer in some high birth rate countries of the Sahel. On the basis of measles dynamics for industrialized countries, high birth rate regions should experience regular annual epidemics. Here, however, we show that measles …
even clean hospitals can pass on infections to patients. Health experts around the world are trying to find ways to reduce hospital acquired infections (hais). Despite all the efforts to tackle it, the threat is increasing. Scientists who took part in the recently held Federation of Infection Societies Conference at …
Over 1.7 million hospital infections occur in the US, killing 99,000 each year. A study led by Gary Noskin of Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago (Clinical Infectious Diseases, November 2007) shows the infections have gone up by 7 per cent each year from 1998 to 2003 in the country. The …
