India topped countries in the South-East Asia region for the most number of malaria cases and deaths in 2022, according to this report published by the World Health Organization (WHO). Each year, WHO’s World malaria report provides a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of trends in malaria control and elimination across …
Work on bioenvironmental management in the state capital Panaji and in the tourist area of Candolim-Calangute has reached a dead-end, thanks to the uninterested stance of the Goa government. Completely ignoring past efforts, Goa is turning back to chemicals. In 1986, malaria suddenly engulfed Panaji due to growing resistance in …
Filariasis, another disease spread by mosquitoes, is a greater problem in southern India than in the north. In extreme cases, it is marked by swelling of the feet known as elephantiasis. From 1981 to 1986, the vcrc achieved filariasis control in Pondicherry just by improving the town's environmental sanitation. But …
Rise in malaria cases has been a matter of great concern in Chennai. According to studies conducted by the mrc , the total number of malaria cases rose from 41,822 cases in 1995 to 45,930 in 1996. What is alarming is that cerebral malaria, an acute form of the disease …
While the industrial complex of the Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited ( bhel ) boasts of lower incidence of malaria due to the efforts of the civil maintenance department of the bhel and the mrc , the Hardwar city continues in its battle against mosquitoes. In 1986, the mrc started bioenvironmental …
With great vigour, the mrc took up the first bioenvironmental programme in 1983 in the Nadiad taluka in district Kheda, central Gujarat. For five years, its staff toiled relentlessly in this area to eliminate breeding sources without the use of chemicals. The project ended in 1989. "We wound up in …
mrc 's scientists demonstrated a dramatic fall in malaria incidence just by applying larvivorous fishes in water bodies in Kolar, Karnataka. After six years of innovative work in Kolar, the mrc is continuing its efforts, wondering what will happen after they wind up operations. "State officials are excited and happy …
The Banavara primary health centre ( phc ) in district Hassan, Karnataka, recorded 8,028 malaria cases in 1995. Reason: the high percentage of migrant labourers from Andhra Pradesh who work as stone cutters in the Chikkur railway line conversion project. In 1995, the mrc expanded its work in Kanakatte and …
What do the field experiences tell us? Firstly, bioenvironmental management can be a working alternative to contain malaria. The science of the methodology is sound. Secondly, the efforts of the mrc and the vcrc proved to be successful in the short term but failed in the long term due to …
It is very interesting to compare the costs of carrying out bioenvironmental control measures and chemical spray ing. "It is the cheapest way of preventing malaria, cheaper even than DDT,' confirms V P Sharma, director, Malaria Research Centre, New Delhi. "And on a national basis, it will turn out even …
global warming is causing a resurgence in mosquito-borne diseases such as malaria and dengue fever across the world. These diseases are spreading from Kenya to New Guinea and South America
A taskforce of foreign policy makers recently suggested that an analysis unit should be set up at the United Nations (UN) to facilitate Security Council's decision-making. Lord Carrington, the UK foreign secretary and chairperson of the task force, said that he was "worried about the gap between the readiness of …
Artemether, the drug used as the last line of defence against malaria is being widely used in Africa. But experts have cautioned that the drug should not be used until resistance to the traditional drug, quinine, becomes ineffective. By prescribing Artemether - mainly to wealthy patients - even before testing …
the importance of maintaining cultures of malarial parasite called plasmodium is evident in the wake of growing menace of malaria. The cultures help in carrying basic biological research that can later be used for designing effective therapies for the disease. Majority of the research involves characterising the dna of the …
Malaria cases in Venezuela are poised to jump by more than a third next year. Researchers studying statistics covering nearly half a century say that a steep rise in malaria cases always follows after an El Ni
the Indian government has procured a hefty loan of us $203.9 (Rs 741.5 crore approximately) from the World Bank to tackle malaria by the year 2002. Under the programme, National Malaria Eradication Programme ( nmep ) of the ministry of health and family welfare will manage the funds and work …
One of the four captive bred Siberian cranes released in the Keolandeo National Park near Bharatpur last year has died. The carcass of the dead bird has been sent to the agriculture university at Hisar in Haryana for a post-mortem to ascertain the cause of death. To check the increasing …
On what makes the Enhanced Malaria Control Project unique: The project is unique due to two reasons - decentralised planning and the adoption of a variety of strategies. Decentralised planning has changed the role of the National Malaria Eradication Programme (nmep) to that of a facili-tator, financier and evaluator. Actual …
researchers at the New York University Medical Centre have recently identified a protein on the surface of the single-celled malaria parasite, Plasmodium , which helps it to invade human liver and blood cells. The find, the second such in the past year, has created ripples of excitement among scientists. An …
> The discovery of the parasite that causes malaria is credited to Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, a French army physician working in Algeria. Laveran's work, published in 1880, was received with scepticism by leading malariologists at the time. Little was known about the disease and it was believed that it …
