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 …
The emergence of cholera in Haiti highlighted the difficulties in containing cholera outbreaks with only safe water, sanitation, hygiene, and appropriate case management. In less developed settings where cholera occurs, these basic needs are often not met or are rapidly overwhelmed during man-made or natural disasters. Prior to the Haitian …
District Medical Officer P. K. Mohanan has informed that a lot of cases of Rat Fever were reported from various parts of Kozhikode district even though the cases are not concentrated in any one place. According to a press release, Rat Fever is found to be dangerous for aged persons …
The prevailing one-week-long diarrhoea outbreak has turned into a matter of great concern as the situation was deteriorating continuously, leaving an apprehension going the state out of control. While visiting, the correspondent found that the corridors and verandahs as well as any free space of the 250-bed Kushtia General Hospital …
Poor sanitation is thought to be a major cause of enteric infections among young children. However, there are no previously published randomized trials to measure the health impacts of large-scale sanitation programs. India's Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) is one such program that seeks to end the practice of open defecation …
This cross-sectional study aimed to investigate the current prevalence and risk factors associated with intestinal polyparasitism (the concurrent infection with multiple intestinal parasite species) among Orang Asli school children in the Lipis district of Pahang state, Malaysia.
Kanchanpur Aug 7: Locals of Bhimdutta Municipality have been affected by an outbreak of diarrhea in their locality. The cause behind the outbreak of the disease are consumption of stale food, drinking polluted water, lack of proper sanitation and not maintaining personal hygiene, it is learnt. As many as nine …
FEAR of epidemic is sweeping through Gumbur in Wase local council of Plateau State, three persons have died while 34 others are currently hospitalized following a cholera outbreak in the area on Sunday, the Council Chairman, Mr. Zakari Abdul, told newsmen Wednesday. Abdul, who lamented the loss of valuable lives, …
THE over 3, 000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) at the Government Girls Secondary School resettlement camp at Biu, Borno State, risk losing their lives to cholera, which has already killed five persons and over a 100 hospitalized following an outbreak at the camp on Tuesday. Though the course of the …
The U.S. East Coast is bearing the brunt of the rise in “nuisance flooding” – minor events that shut down roads and clog storm drains but aren’t particularly dangerous. Such floods have increased by more than fivefold in the past 50 years as coastal sea levels rise because of climate …
Three deaths in a day at Parkash Nagar raise questions over MC, Health Dept’s arrangements Water contamination continues to haunt people residing in some localities of the city. Every summer, the same story gets repeated: people losing their life due to diarrhoea and other waterborne diseases. Three deaths in a …
With monsoons advancing steadily into the city, cases of fever, malaria and gastroenteritis have observed a noticeable rise. From 1,278 cases of fever recorded by the civic health department in the first week of July, the cases jumped to 1,468 in the third week of July. For the same period, …
kwankwaso-okNO fewer than six persons have died of cholera in Kafin Dalawa Village in Tudunwada Wada local council of Kano State. Besides, the state Ministry of Health has confirmed the outbreak of cholera in nine local councils and had since deployed medical personal to observe the situation and check possible …
Order of the National Green Tribunal (Central Zonal Bench, Bhopal) in the matter of Madhusudan Sharma Vs. State of Rajasthan & Ors. dated 22/07/2014 regarding laying and replacement of the drinking water and sewage pipelines in the State of Rajasthan besides the localised issue concerning the pipelines in the city …
GAIGHAT, Udaypur, July 17: Around 37 per cent population in Udaypur district has been suffering from different diseases every year due to consumption of water of open well. An annual statistics presented recently by the District Health Office, Udaypur, states that 37 per cent population out of the total population …
RANGPUR : Speakers at a sanitary latrine distribution ceremony on Wednesday said the rural public health index has marked improvement with reduction in water-borne diseases following laudable success achieved in sanitation coverage, reports BSS. World Vision Bangladesh (WVB) under its Area Development Programme (ADP) organised the ceremony at Notkhana Balapara …
RANGPUR : Continuous improvement of all health indexes along with increasing mass public awareness has substantially reduced recurrence of waterborne diseases and related deaths in the rural areas, reports BSS. During the past five years, the rural people have achieved laudable success in health, hygiene, sanitation, nutrition, safe drinking water, …
Vibrio cholerae classical (CL) biotype was isolated, along with biotype El Tor (ET) and altered ET carrying the cholera toxin (CTX) gene of CL biotype, during the 1991 cholera epidemic in Mexico, subsequently becoming endemic until 1997. Microbiological, molecular, and phylogenetic analyses of V. cholerae isolated from both clinical and …
