Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In re: News item appearing in The Hindu dated 21.12.2023 titled “6 dead, 1000 infected in suspected cholera outbreak in Rourkela dated 22/12/2023. The original application is registered in suo-moto exercise of power on the basis of the news item …
Cholera continues to be an important cause of human infections, and outbreaks are often observed after natural disasters, such as the one following the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. Once the cholera outbreak was confirmed, rumors spread that the disease was brought to Haiti by a battalion of Nepalese soldiers serving …
KALPETTA: A four-and-a-half-year-old child died and 15 tribesmen of Karimam Paniya Colony at Pulpally in the district were admitted to the primary health centre at Pulpally with symptoms of cholera on Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Bijith, son of Thampi of the colony. The child was admitted to the …
With the monsoon having arrived, the threat of water-borne diseases is looming large over the city with the Hyderabad Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board failing to supply potable drinking water to all citizens. Water samples collected from various localities in the city by the Institute of Preventive Medicine (IPM), …
A cholera outbreak that has already killed 32 people in Congo has spread to the capital, Kinshasa, the World Health Organization said Wednesday. Three cases of cholera, a waterborne disease, have been confirmed since last week in Kinshasa, which has a population of at least nine million people, many of …
Water in the Vembanad lake and Pampa river turns saline ALAPPUZHA: Even as the threat of floods that loomed over the water-logged Kuttanad seems to have receded, the people are now up against another recurrent scourge. Kuttanad is facing an acute shortage of drinking water, even for its cattle. The …
A storm unleashed torrential rains, mudslides and flooding in Haiti, killing at least 10 people, Haitian officials said on Tuesday after thunderstorms pounded several Caribbean countries. The heavy rainfall across the region, which began over the weekend, comes after the June 1 start of the Atlantic hurricane season and as …
Climate change and associated increases in climate variability will likely further exacerbate global health disparities. More research is needed, particularly in developing countries, to accurately predict the anticipated impacts and inform effective interventions. Building on the information presented at the 2009 Joint Indo–U.S. Workshop on Climate Change and Health in …
It was a deadly cocktail of poisonous heavy metals and dangerous coliform bacteria that was responsible for the Bholakpur tragedy that led to 16 deaths and hospitalisation of over 500 people in May, 2009. Residents consumed water containing coliform bacteria 24,000 times in excess of the permissible limit. The heavy …
The germ that has been causing regular outbreaks of cholera in the city is a new mutant of cholera bacterium, and if not check-ed, it will further spread in the environment posing a severe health threat. A team of researchers from Defence Research and Development Establishment in Gwalior, collected contaminated …
The causative agent of cholera, Vibrio Cholera, has been detected in two patients in Kalanki and Sitapaila in the Capital, according to the Sukraraj Tropical and Infectious Disease Hospital, Teku. Both the infected are women. Cholera is an acute intestinal infection caused by ingestion of food or water contaminated with …
Bangalore, While the Health Ministry may maintain that the incidence of cholera has seen a decline, experts feel otherwise. Hence, a new live oral cholera vaccine (IOCV) using recombinant technology will begin phase II clinical trial, this month. Funded and developed by the Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and …
An increase in new cholera patients in rural Haiti has raised concern that the outbreak may be starting to surge again with the spring rainy season, a medical aid group based in the United States said Wednesday. Health experts in Haiti warned in January when the cholera outbreak began to …
When Alexander Fleming discovered pencillin in 1928 he could hardly have imagined that one day the world would be battling drug resistant superbugs with genes like New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase (NDM-1), which can render the most intensive antibiotic treatments ineffective. About 4.4 lakh new cases of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis emerge annually, causing …
Contamination of drinking water is said to be the reason for outbreak of epidemic Halebeedu (Hassan), Nearly 30 persons took ill at Dyavappahalli village in the taluk on Friday due to suspected cholera. Public woes: Patients complaining gastroenteritis undergoing treatment at Dyavapanahalli village near Halebeedu, in Hassan on Friday. DH …
Says Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit after a review meeting with health experts The Lancet study that had alleged presence of NDM-1 gene in cholera and dysentery bacteria in the samples of drinking water taken from Delhi was on Wednesday discussed at length by Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit at a …
Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit today reviewed the Lancet study showing the alleged presence of NDM-1 gene in cholera and dysentery bacteria in the samples of drinking water. The review was done by the experts from Maulana Azad Medical College, Directorate of Health Services, city government, National Centre for Disease …
In October 2010, a virulent South Asian strain of El Tor cholera began to spread in Haiti. Interventions have included treatment of cases and improved sanitation. Use of cholera vaccines would likely have further reduced morbidity and mortality, but such vaccines are in short supply and little is known about …
BHUBANESWAR: The heat over cholera deaths, the storm created by the stinging Lancet report on malaria casualties, the H1N1 outbreak and the repulsive sight of dogs nibbling a farmer
Poor sanitation system makes Haiti vulnerable to a disease that first swept the world more than 150 years ago Today, cholera sickens 3 million to 5 million people a year, killing up to 130,000 of them, said Peter Hotez, president of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, who …
Britain said on Saturday it would help pay for more than 1,000 medical staff to fight a raging cholera epidemic in Haiti. The outbreak in the impoverished Caribbean nation has killed more than 1,400 people in five weeks and the death toll is climbing by dozens each day. The United …
