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 …
Nkasi District Commissioner (DC), Mr Iddy Hassan Kimanta, told the ‘Daily News’ over the phone on his way to Kirando village along the shores of Lake Tanganyika from Namanyere Town. Reports from Kirando village reveals that the passenger who was traveling to Rukwa region from Kigoma by ship developed serious …
Poor sanitation and open defecation, which continue to be the bane of the Ghanaian society, has robbed the nation of over 4,500 of its youth through the outbreak of diarrhoea in 2014 alone. According to a report by the United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF), an additional 247 people died …
Schistosomiasis is the most widespread water-based disease in sub-Saharan Africa. Transmission is governed by the spatial distribution of specific freshwater snails that act as intermediate hosts and human water contact patterns. Remote sensing data have been utilized for spatially explicit risk profiling of schistosomiasis. The investigated the potential of remote …
Handeni — The cholera outbreak has spread to Handeni District in Tanga Region, killing six people. Residents of the district are warned to take immediate precautionary steps to prevent the bacterial disease from spreading further. According to experts the cause of the outbreak is mainly due to people drinking un-boiled …
Iraq is carrying out a major vaccination campaign to combat a cholera outbreak that has infected more than 2,200 people, the health ministry said on Sunday. The campaign, focused on vaccinating people displaced by conflict including the war with the Islamic State group, began Saturday, health minister Adeela Hammoud Hussein …
This week's issue of PLOS Medicine features two separate studies, each of which investigates the importance of uninterrupted piped water supplies to health outcomes. In a matched cohort study in Hubli-Dharwad, India, Ayse Ercumen of the University of California, Berkeley, and colleagues compared health outcomes for households that had been …
The Director of the Maputo City Directorate of Health, Sheila Cuco has confirmed the death of eighteen people in the capital as the latest victims of diarrheal diseases between January and September this year, APA learnt Sunday. Dr Cuco said that this represents a 100 percent increase compared to the …
At least eight people died from more than 10,000 diarrhoea cases recorded in Zimbabwe during the past week, the Ministry of Health revealed Sunday.The ministry said in a report that 10,619 cases of diarrhoea and typhoid were recorded around the country during the past week. Manicaland and Mashonaland West (1,515) …
Gujarat high court on Monday directed the state government to fence water bodies to prevent them from becoming dumping grounds and, subsequently, natural breeding grounds for mosquitoes causing dengue. The direction comes at a time when the vector-borne disease has claimed four lives in the city and more than 700 …
Twenty two people have fallen prey to the water borne disease ‘diarrhea’ in various parts of the tehsil. As per reports, 22 persons have fallen ill due to diarrhea in various parts of tehsil Bhaderwah. Contaminated water is believed to be the reason behind the outbreak. Most of the cases …
The city’s three municipal corporations reported 1,870 cases till September 12, with 613 being reported last week, according to latest official data released Monday. The number of dengue cases in the capital has crossed the 1,800 mark, forcing the entire government machinery to swing into action to deal with fear …
ISLAMABAD: The Indus River System Authority (Irsa) has conceded that Pakistan is becoming a water-stressed country as the availability of per capita water has declined. Irsa told Senate the other day, “It is true that Pakistan is becoming a water-stressed country as the per capita water availability has went down …
Cryptosporidium is a protozoan parasite that can cause diarrhoea. Human faeces are an important source of Cryptosporidium in surface waters. We present a model to study the impact of sanitation, urbanization and population growth on human emissions of Cryptosporidium to surface waters. We build on a global model by Hofstra …
Dr Jude Oko, a member of the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Abuja chapter, has said that no fewer than 190,000 children die of diarrhoea in Nigeria every year. Oko, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Wednesday, described the situation as regrettable, and emphasised …
The Director, Bauchi State Disease Control, Dr Ahmed Fanti, has said that there is no case of cholera in the state. Fanti told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Bauchi on Wednesday that the speculation in Bakul, Dunmagari and Gallari, among others in Shira Local Government Area was false. …
Combined sewer overflows (CSOs) occur in combined sewer systems when sewage and stormwater runoff are released into water bodies, potentially contaminating water sources. CSOs are often caused by heavy precipitation and are expected to increase with increasing extreme precipitation associated with climate change. Original Source
At least 20 people, mostly children, have died amid a fresh outbreak of cholera in Nigeria's northern Bauchi State, Nigeria’s official news agency has reported. Citing statements issued by both the federal government and the Bauchi State government, the news agency reported Saturday that the death toll from the latest …
An unusually high number of cases of human plague have been recorded by US health authorities since April—11 in all, with three of them fatal, officials said Tuesday. "It is unclear why the number of cases in 2015 is higher than usual," the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention …
In 2013, a stockpile of oral cholera vaccine (OCV) was created for use in outbreak response, but vaccine availability remains severely limited. Innovative strategies are needed to maximize the health impact and minimize the logistical barriers to using available vaccine. Here we ask under what conditions the use of one …
NINE people died of diarrhoea countrywide during the first week of this month, Ministry of Health and Child Care said yesterday. This brings the total number of people who have died of diarrhoea so far this year to 323 out of 294 124 reported cases. According to the ministry's weekly …
