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 …
Poliomyelitis (polio) is a highly infectious viral disease that spreads from person to person through faecal-oral contact. Flies, too, can transfer the poliovirus from faeces to food. Once the virus enters the body, it multiplies in the intestines and attacks the nervous system. The incubation period for the virus is …
Assam is the highest tea producer state in the country. There is scarcity of reliable information on health and nutritional status among tea garden population of Assam to enable initiating public health response to their health needs.
Tropical cyclones—variously defined as hurricanes, typhoons, and cyclones—regularly impact human populations and periodically produce devastating weather-related natural disasters. The epidemiology of tropical cyclones is fundamentally determined by the physical forces of massive cyclonic systems intersecting with patterns of human behavior. The destructive forces of cyclonic winds, inundating rains, and storm …
A lthough India has committed to curb non-communicable diseases, as per the recommendations of the World Health Organization (who), its policies in other sectors will prevent this from happening. This was apparent at the National Consultation on Implementation of who's Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health held recently …
angola is facing an epidemic of Marburg haemorrhagic fever that has claimed as many as 244 lives since October 2004. The World Health Organization (who) confirmed the epidemic on March 23, 2005 on the basis of tests done by the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (cdc) in the us. …
a medicinal herb easily available in India can increase the resistance to disease and ensure better growth among some of the commonly consumed fish, according to a recent study by scientists at the Delhi University. Rina Chakrabarti and Vasudeva Rao studied the effect of Achyranthes aspera on Catla catla (commonly …
indian researchers have discovered liver disease patients of Kolkata infected with a few new strains of hepatitis c virus (hcv) closely resembling varieties prevalent in countries such as Thailand, America and Nepal. The scientists also found that various types of hcv are fast evolving in acute and chronic liver patients …
scientists from the us Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Johns Hopkins University have discovered two viruses in Cameroon, Africa, that belong to the retrovirus family, which causes several illnesses, including aids. The two
The current influenza epidemic in the us, the avian flu and severe acute respiratory syndrome (sars) in Southeast Asia are infectious diseases that have rapidly evolved, taking national and global health systems by surprise. Such infections emerge in one corner of the globe and hitchhike into new areas, often causing …
INDIA is a hotbed not only of strange diseases but of stranger disease surveillance and control institutions. Every year, known and unknown fevers erupt in all parts of the country, and the New Delhi-based National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD) swings into inaction. The procedure is a standard one: it …
A curious search for blankets is currently taking place in the plains around the Great Lakes in North America. These are not ordinary blankets. They are actually bison skins that were smeared with body fluid tainted with smallpox and used, two hundred years ago, to obliterate American Indians. Post 9/11, …
sars (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) is here to stay. So countries are now applying for patents on the sars virus . The ones seriously trying to cash in are the us Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (cdc), University of Hong Kong's commercial arm Versitech Limited and British Columbia Cancer …
the hills were alive with the sound of music, with the songs they have sung for a thousand years. The teeny-weeny creature was gazing from far above. "The gates were open and the hills were beckoning
toxic taint: Green Indian seedless grapes have been taken off supermarket shelves in Belgium following the detection of high levels of pesticide residues in the product in the Netherlands recently. The Belgian Food Safety Authority took this decision over fears of high chemical residue levels, leading to stomach cramps in …
New visitors to Toronto, if any, cannot be blamed if they think the city has become a ghost town. Tourists are likely to be greeted by empty shops and streets, with hotels offering high discounts to fill their mainly vacant rooms. The World Health Organisation's (who) recent advisory against travelling …
the Union government's recent declaration that India does not have any cases of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (sars) may have allayed the fear the disease had generated during the past few weeks. But there's more to the authorities' flip-flop on the issue than what meets the eye. A closer look …
Last November, a trader in Foshan, a small industrial town in Guangdong province in China, fell seriously ill with an incurable high fever and cough. He was suspected to be suffering from pneumonia, a non-infectious disease common in the area. But then four health workers who had been treating him …
Several strains of influenza or flu have been named after Guangdong province, where the first sars cases surfaced. This dubious distinction stems from the agricultural practices prevalent in the region. Rice fields support ducks and chickens, which feed on pig waste. The waste of one becomes the food of the …
Between March 25 and 27, 2003, two different groups of researchers in the cdc and Hong Kong University announced that a previously unrecognised coronavirus could have caused the sars epidemic. This family of viruses is the second leading cause of colds in children and premature infants but has never been …
