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 …
KENDRAPARA: Cholera virus has been found in gastro-affected villages of Rajnagar block in Kendrapara district where recently 12 persons, including six children, died after suffering from water-borne diseases.
Tree-munching beetles, malaria-carrying mosquitoes and deer ticks that spread Lyme disease are three living signs that climate change is likely to exact a heavy toll on human health. These pests and others are expanding their ranges in a warming world, which means people who never had to worry about them …
Tree-munching beetles, malaria-carrying mosquitoes and deer ticks that spread Lyme disease are three living signs that climate change is likely to exact a heavy toll on human health. These pests and others are expanding their ranges in a warming world, which means people who never had to worry about them …
Zimbabwe is on the brink of having 100,000 infections of cholera, a preventable disease that has already killed 4,283 people there and remains a serious threat, the Zimbabwean Red Cross and its partners said on Tuesday. The damaged water and sewage systems that triggered the recent outbreak in the southern …
Using slashed fruits, direct exposure to dust, substandard drinks prepared through unhygienic ways cause dangerous diseases out breaks like gastro-enteritis, hepatitis A & E, typhoid, cholera and others. This was stated by Pakistan Medical Society (PMS) Chairman Dr Masood Akhtar Sheikh while addressing a lecture held under the auspices of …
The monsoon may be some time away but waterborne diseases like cholera have already registered a rise in numbers in Delhi. According to the latest daily disease surveillance report, dated May 18, released by the MCD Health department, 37 cholera-related cases and deaths were reported from the city in the …
In July 1994, 500,000 to 800,000 Rwandans crossed the border into the North Kivu region of Zaire (now called the Democratic Republic of the Congo, DRC). During the first month after the influx, almost 50,000 refugees died; cholera was a major contributor.
May 14: The report submitted by the Institute of Preventive medicine (IPM) after testing 10 samples said that none of the samples tested positive. This report was submitted to the state health officials on Thursday.
May 14: With there being no vaccine against cholera as yet, the state health officials are having a tough time. The secretary of health, Mr L.V. Subramaniam, says that a vaccine against cholera is only in its trial stages at the Central Research Institute in Kasouli, Himachal Pradesh. It can …
May 12: The disease outbreak in Bholakpur seem-ed out of control with one more person succumbing and 53 fresh cases of diarrhoea and vomiting being reported on Tuesday. The toll in eight days of cholera in Bholakpur in the city now stands at 13. Elsewhere, at least 40 more people …
May 12: Diseases supposedly on the verge of eradication have reared their deadly head in the state. A cholera epidemic in Bholakpur, an anthrax outbreak in Visakhapatnam and the recurrence of polio cases, are the recent reminders that yesterday
May 11: The National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases on Monday confirmed what the city had feared: That the outbreak of disease in some areas is cholera. NICED said the cholera outbreak was due to water contaminated with sewage. NICED said the deaths of 12 persons could have been …
May 10: Two more people from Bholakpur succumbed to acute diarrhoea and vomiting on Sunday taking the death toll to 12 while 67 fresh cases were reported from new areas. Andalamma was admitted on May 3 to the Fever Hospital and was later shifted to Osmania Hospital. Ghouse Pasha had …
Hyderabad, May 10: Even as Gandhi and Fever Hospitals in the city are being thronged by victims of diarrhoea and cholera, the minister for health, Mr S. Chandrasekhar, on Sunday, played down the cholera outbreak in the city and blamed the media for triggering panic among people.
May 10: Even as the city awaited the confirmatory tests on the presence of cholera in the city, it transpired that state health officials have flouted every rule in the book in treating cholera patients, and victims. Officials have not invoked cholera prevention and control guidelines, for the simple reason …
HYDERABAD: The health authorities on Saturday confirmed that 16 patients, who were admitted to the Fever and the Gandhi Hospitals here between May 5 and 6, have tested positive for cholera. Out of the 16 confirmed, 12 were from the Fever Hospital while the rest were admitted in the Gandhi …
Two children at Bowring and Lady Curzon Hospital tested positive for cholera by the hanging drops method, here on Monday. The children were referred to Isolation Hospital, from where their samples may be sent to the Public Health Institute for culture tests. The two children Zaiba (3) and Selvi (12), …
Fruitful discussions between leading policymakers and representatives of international agencies NEW DELHI: Representatives of the National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, the Indian Council of Medical Research, the Central Department of Bio-technology and the International Vaccine Institute have been engaged in fruitful discussions with leading policymakers on ways to …
Developing countries including Pakistan are facing the burden of communicable disease including dengue, fevers, diarrhoea and cholera, which may result in emergencies. These views were expressed by the speakers during a technical session of the 3rd National Conference held under the auspices of Pakistan Medical Society (PMS) in collaboration with …
