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 VIRUS that has left more than 2,500 km of South Australia's coast littered with millions of rotting pilchard fish could reach Victorian waters in just over a week. The herpes-related virus that causes lesions on the pilchards' gills is moving steadily towards Victoria. It is a repetition of a …
ALAN GRAY, director of the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology's Furzebrook Research Station, and a member of Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment (ACRE), warns that it is impossible to predict how the genetically-engineered crops to resist plant viruses will behave. "Viruses are, in ecological terms, something of a black …
A virus has provided a hint of how the Earth's first organisms got things done. Many biologists believe that the earliest forms of life comprised molecules of ribonucleic acid (RNA) - DNA's chemical cousin - that were able to copy themselves. Now Steven Lommel, a virologist at North Carolina State …
Queasy students often pass out during dissecting frogs. However, all that may change. Using a virtual frog program developed at California-based Stanford University, queasy students can examine the cyber frog from any angle, peel back its muscles and take it apart and put it back together.
Do not use antibiotics every time you sneeze, researchers at the National Public Health Institute of Finland have advised patients suffering from symptoms of common cold. A new study confirms that almost all colds are, in fact, caused by viruses, and so antibiotics should not be used to treat them. …
MUCH evidence in recent years has proved what folk wisdom and traditional medicinal practices had long believed. Our immune, nervous and hormonal systems are all linked. A number of studies with viral and bacterial agents have shown that the degree of infection can be modulated by interactions between these three …
Beware of the dog, particularly if it is a puppy. Never mind how cute it might be for it could make you seriously ill. That is the message of caution from Clement Ng and his team at the Milwaukee Health Department, USA, who have found potentially deadly parasites lurking hi …
among the dreaded human viruses that cause fever and extensive internal or external haemorrhaging, Ebola and Marburg viruses are the most feared. Responsible for a virtual carnage in several African states in the past, these tiny killers have been talked and written about the most. Belonging to the same family …
Doctors in Hong Kong have recently diagnosed a 19-year-old woman with the bird flu infection. With this, the total number of confirmed human cases have gone up to 16. Five people are still under observation as doctors suspect that they may also be carrying the virus. Hong Kong's attempts to …
on december 29, 1997, Hong Kong’s administration started slaughtering all poultry in the region in an effort to stop the spread of the new strain of influenza virus, a (h5n 1). By January 3, 1998, several unanswered questions remained scattered amidst the rotting carcasses of more than a million birds. …
Till the time researchers come up with an effective vaccine against A (H5N1), prevention is the only way to avoid the deadly virus. Beyond that, early recognition of infection and specific treatment with the drug amantadine before the infection becomes too serious is the only line of defence. Prevention involves …
the World Health Organisation (who) and Kenyan medical officials sent a team to the north eastern part of the country to investigate the spread of a mysterious disease whose symptoms match those of the Ebola virus. Garissa region near the Somalian border, hard-hit by the recent floods, has registered 143 …
following the death of two people in Hong Kong due to a new strain of influenza virus (a h5n1) that was mysteriously transmitted from poultry to humans, the Malaysian province of Sabah has imposed a complete and immediate ban on import of livestock, poultry and related products from Hong Kong. …
Monkeypox is an enzootic disease (prevalent in animals of a particular area) that circulates in monkeys in the rainforests of central and western Africa. It was previously believed that the virus is not easily transmitted to humans. However, 71 cases of monkeypox were recorded from February to August 1996, including …
the monkeypox virus is being transmitted among humans more readily than ever before, according to us researchers. Monkeypox is a virus that has symptoms nearly identical to smallpox. Of the 89 people studied in the Democratic Republic of Congo, nearly 73 per cent had been infected by others, according to …
HUMANITY is facing the threat of dangerous viral diseases from a hitherto unsuspected quarter - sewage tanks of aircrafts. According to a survey sponsored by the World Health Organisation and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, out of 40 samples of sewage tested from international flights …
A serious debate has been going on since 1995 among virologists and wildlife biologists whether the rabbit calicivirus (RCV), which causes blood to clot in the lungs, heart and kidneys of the rabbits, and results in their death is acceptable as an efficient way for getting rid of the rabbit …
with uncertainty hanging like a pall over the future of prawn cultivation in Andhra Pradesh (ap), prawn farmers who had stocked their ponds, have reported outbreak of viral diseases among the fish crop. According to sources, at least 40-50 per cent of the area in Krishna and other districts are …
