The number of lives lost due to viral hepatitis infections is increasing and already accounts for 3,500 deaths daily, according to this report by the World Health Organization (WHO). This is the first consolidated WHO report on viral hepatitis epidemiology, service coverage and product access, with improved data for action. …
Around 80 percent water supply schemes in Rawalpindi are providing contaminated water, thus leaving the people at the risk of serious diseases like hepatitis, jaundice and diarrhoea. The outcome of the technical assessment survey of water supply schemes, conducted in the domains of seven tehsils of Rawalpindi district, has revealed …
The special squad formed by the food safety designated officer in the district raided eight tanker trucks that distribute drinking water and took samples from eight water sources from the Thiruvankulam and Irimpanam areas on Monday. The raids were conducted after the squad received a tip-off that there had been …
A recent death of a person in Edathala due to hepatitis E has sparked off health concerns in the district that had seen a grave situation last year too because of outbreak of hepatitis in various parts of the district leading to an epidemic-like situation. An emergency meeting has been …
Around 80 percent water supply schemes in Rawalpindi are providing contaminated water, thus leaving the people at the risk of serious diseases like hepatitis, jaundice and diarrhoea. The outcome of the Technical Assessment Survey of water supply schemes, conducted in the domains of seven tehsils of Rawalpindi district, has revealed …
As many as 10,000 people die in Karachi every year because of renal infection caused by contaminated water, according to an assessment report compiled by Pakistan Council of Research in Water Resources (PCRWR). Citing a global survey report on water-borne diseases unveiled on Wednesday, the council's document said that every …
The onset of summer has brought with it the fear of spread of H1N1 influenza. As many as 200 cases have been reported in the neighbouring city of Pune and so far nine people have reportedly succumbed to the virus. These numbers and the lack of screening of passengers from …
IMPHAL: Hepatitis B positive has taken the scale of an epidemic in the tribal villages of Tamenglong district. At least one teenaged girl has died and 17 others have been shifted to the hospital. The disease was reported from Marangching and some other villages around Noney. The prevalence of the …
Fatehabad: After final tests at the PGIMS, Rohtak, 1,503 persons in Ratia have been found to be infected with hepatitis C virus. The health authorities in Fatehabad have received reports from the PGIMS that have been sent to the Director-General of Health Services (DGHS), Haryana, for further action. Teams of …
In the summer of 2011, Seth Berkley moved from New York to Geneva as the new chief executive of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI). For over a decade previously, Berkley had run the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), an institution he had founded. This experience confirmed his …
More people in the United States now die from hepatitis C each year than from AIDS, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. More than 3.2 million people are currently infected with hepatitis C. Using data on more than 22 million deaths and their …
JAIPUR: The scientists of India and Slovenia are working together to study how dangerous is the Hepatitis E virus (HEV) and how to diagnose it as its symptoms are quite similar to other liver ailments. It is a three-year collaborative research which started this month in a laboratory in Kaladera …
Fatehabad: As many as 247 new cases of hepatitis C were detected on the fourth day of the ongoing survey in Ratia taking the total number of patients to 705. The survey teams of the Health Department working under the guidance of medical experts from the PGIMS, Rohtak, which had …
The outbreak of hepatitis C in Ratia town of Fatehabad is quite disturbing. It became clear on the first day of the screening operations started by the health authorities yesterday under the guidance of medical experts from the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences (PGIMS), Rohtak. The survey team covered less …
Teams of medical experts from the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences (PGIMS), Rohtak, have reached here for a door-to-door survey for Hepatitis-C beginning in Ratia block of the district from tomorrow. The survey, ordered on the personal intervention of Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, will continue for two weeks. Dr …
More than 300 taken ill; cases also reported from Hoshiarpur dist. More than 300 persons in Nawanshahr town are reportedly suffering from jaundice with most cases coming from areas along the Banga road and Garhshankar road. State Nodal Officer for the Integrated Disease Surveillance Project Deepak Bhatia said: "The outbreak …
A couple of cases of Hepatitis B were reported from Palamel near Mavelikkara and isolated cases from neighbouring places in the district recently, according to the District Medical Officer (in-charge), Jacob Varghese. Mr. Varghese was speaking at a meeting to discuss the action plan for prevention and control of communicable …
The rising number of maternal deaths in the city has sent alarm bells ringing. According to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s family welfare department, it has reported 199 maternal deaths from April 2011 to December 2011. Ninety-five out of the 199 are from outside Mumbai. “The reason for the rising number …
Frequent travels, past displacement and current repatriation of millions of Afghans have put the Afghan population at risk of infection with novel, possibly drug-resistant strains of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and treatment for such infections may prove challenging for the development of effective vaccines and antiretroviral therapies, a recent study …
Voluntary donor selection and screening of donor’s blood for infective agents are the cornerstones of transfusion medicine. Strict donor selection criterion, proper counselling and deferred collection may reduce wastage of resources. During the period of 01.01.2007 to 31.12.2008, a total number of 44,173 units of blood were collected from healthy …
The Awami League-led government is yet to fulfil its electoral pledge of supplying pure drinking water to the entire population by 2011, failing even to provide safe drinking water to all the citizens of the capital city. In its election manifesto, the AL said, ‘The arsenic problem will be tackled …
