Viral Diseases

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding pollution of Godavari river, Telangana, 29/05/2025

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 …

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>> Germans have found a novel way of recycling thousands of used and unsold Christmas trees: to give them to the local zoo to feed the animals. "Elephants around the country will have a delicious lunch of five Christmas trees each,' Berlin zoo spokesperson Ragnar Kuehne informed the news agency …

Frozen lakes home for influenza virus

The influenza virus can survive for thousands of years in frozen lakes and might be picked up and carried by birds to reinfect animals and people. After their release, these viruses can cause new infections and spread pandemics, researchers recently reported in the Journal of Virology. "We have found viral …

Poliovirus

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 …

Chikungunya spreads its tentacles

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No buzz

Chikungunya was first reported in 1952 when it caused an epidemic on the Makonde plateau in Tanzania. The disease was called chikungunya, which, in Makonde meant that which bends up, to describe the stooped posture caused by the arthritic symptoms of the disease. Since then, the disease has been reported …

Bird flu virus cannot trigger human pandemic

current avian flu viral strains may lack the ability to trigger a human pandemic, claims a team of researchers. Led by Taronna Maines from the Centers for Disease Control (cdc) in the us, the scientists genetically engineered viruses containing genes from both the h5n1 avian flu strain and a human …

Human transit evidence of bird flu found in Indonesia

With the death of a 14-year-old boy from the h5n1 virus in the second week of June, Indonesia's death toll now stands at 39; Vietnam accounts for 43 human deaths since 2003. Earlier, six of seven family members from a remote farming village on Sumatra Island had died after testing …

Climate change causes species to change habitats

climate change is forcing plants and animals away from their native habitats to more congenial ones. A recent survey of plants in the uk found that species favouring higher temperature like orchids and ferns that used to be found in southern parts of the country are now flourishing in the …

Chikungunya virus assumes epidemic proportions

a recent study has thrown light on how the chikungunya virus attained epidemic proportions in the Indian Ocean region since September 2005. A team of researchers at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, has spotted several changes in the genetic makeup of the little-known virus that may have helped it proliferate. …

Why`s malaria taking its toll?

Ravaged by malaria, Assam is struggling to control the disease. Like in most other parts of the country, the health infrastructure is in a state of terminal decay. Forget the remote villages, even the district health centres are in shambles. Check out Lakhimpur district

New infestation

after a gap of 33 years, an outbreak of chikungunya

Question marks

The New England Journal of Medicine recently found that four patients died in spite of being treated with Tamiflu. Of the four, two had developed resistance to the drug and the other two might have been treated late. The report suggests the ideal doses may not be sufficient since inadequate …

Group defence

ever wondered why people have different blood groups? A study shows that blood groups evolved to confer upon humanity defence against viral and bacterial diseases. Humans either have blood group a, b, ab or o. Each type occurs at different frequencies across the world. Robert Seymour and his colleagues from …

Avian havoc

vietnam is grappling with the severest ever attack of bird flu. The disease has killed five people so far, even as nine other influenza deaths are being examined. As a damage-control measure, Vietnam as well as some Southeast Asian countries have resorted to mass culling of poultry chickens. The disease …

Still reeling

two new cases of severe acute respiratory syndrome (sars) have been reported in China, taking the total number of afflicted persons to three. Worse still, Chinese authorities are realising that all their plans to contain the disease may go awry. This is because hundreds of millions of people in the …

Stop blaming the rain

a rainy year means more mosquitoes? Not quite, suggests a study. Researchers have found that because dry weather knocks out key mosquito predators and competitors, last year's drought

Clucking in alarm

poultry farms across north India are facing a mysterious viral disease. As many as two million birds have fallen prey to the illness and the economic loss has already mounted to more than Rs 60 crore. Even as the authorities' final diagnosis is long overdue, a chicken-and-egg controversy

Suffering SARS

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 …

The pathogen s path

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 …

SARS unravelled

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 …

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