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 …
BRAZIL has been a favourite hunting ground for mysterious killer viruses. Unknown illnesses, giving occasion to much brainracking in medical circles, have been its bane. Four deaths recently in Cuiaba in the state ofMato Grosso - mortalities attributed to a virus called the Hanta virus ( closely related to the …
THAT nightmarish faction book, The Hot Zone, told the story of the deadly Ebola virus. Now Outbreak tells us an even more horrifying story of a fictional virus, Motaba. Like Ebola, which dissolves the insides of monkeys and humans in a week or 10 days, Motaba also spreads through body …
The Ebola filovirus, a slender microscopic length of what resembles blood-sprinkled thread, is, in terrible truth, an insidious sociopath that spinechilling Hollywood would love to stock in its props room. No one has ever seen anything the likes of the Ebola virus before. On April 10 this year, a Zairean …
The emergence of AIDS, Ebola, and any number of other rainforest agents appears to be a natural consequence of the ruin of the tropical biosphere. The emerging viruses are surfacing from ecologically damaged parts of the earth. Many of them come from the tattered edges of tropical rain forest, or …
The hepatitis virus has already run through alphabets A to E. A recent study could well slot it up to J. Tests conducted on a frozen blood specimen 30 years old led to the discovelry of 3 previously unknown hepatitis viruses. Tentatively called GB-A,' GB-B and GB-C, the viruses belcwig …
The Caribbean region has been warned by a dengue fever alert issued by the Pan American Health Organisation. Although dengue fever is endemic to the region, so far the periodic outbreaks have been caused only by dengue viruses of the 1, 2 and 4 strains. However, experts fear the worst …
A British medical team has found evidence linking chronic fatigue to viral illness (The Lancet, Vol 344, No 8926). Anthony David and his colleagues at the Institute' of Psychiatry, London, England, conducted a study of 618 patients with a general practice diagnosis of viral illness. They found that 6 months …
MORE THAN 40 people have died of kala-azar and 120-odd people have been infected in Mahottari district of Nepal, close to the Indo-Nepal border, reports Jan Sarma for Panos Features. A shortage of insecticides has made it difficult to keep the virus at bay. In fact, in 1992-93, supplies were …
Canine distemper virus (CDV) infection occurred in captive leopards (Panthera pardus), tigers (Panthera tigris), lions (Panthera leo), and a jaguar (Panthera onca) in 1991 and 1992. An epizootic affected all 4 types of cats at the Wildlife Waystation, San Fernando, California, with 17 mortalities. CDV-infected raccoons were thought to be …
INDIAN veterinarians have developed a vaccine against a viral disease, called Ranikhet disease, which causes haemorrhagic diarrhoea in poultry, especially hens. Though about 10 per cent of the infected hens die, farmers find more worrisome the drop of upto 40 per cent in egg production by the infected birds. Scientists …
CHEERS! But be warned, the champagne in your glass may actually be a genetically engineered brew. A team of French researchers at a research centre run by champagne manufacturers Moet-Hennessy-Louis Vuitton in Colombes, near Paris, has genetically engineered grapes and implanted their cells with genes that protect them against the …
THOUGH only about 10 per cent of rainforest plants -- far less diverse than ocean life -- have been screened, these have still yielded a number of anti-cancer, anti-viral and anti-inflammatory drugs. Research on marine natural products which are far more diverse did not begin until 1973, but according to …
It is widely assumed that a deficiency of immune function underlies the coexistence of viral excretion and specific-antibody production in patients with congenital rubella. Recent demonstrations of lymphocyte viræmia, and of lymphocyte competence for response to phytohæmagglutinin, have made this assumption more questionable. Whether or not the cellular immune system …
