PASIGHAT: The Pasighat district health department is going all out to control mosquito-transmitted diseases like malaria, dengue and recently detected Japanese Encephalitis (JE) in the district. Headed by the DMO Dr Kaling Dai, a team of doctors and officials in carrying outsource reduction activities followed by awareness programme, fogging and …
According to government reports, dengue fever has killed 321 people in Vietnam so far. The figure has risen by more than 50 per cent since 1997. Tran Hung, an official in the ministry of health, said 159,449 people had contracted the disease, and southern province accounts for 80 per cent …
THE return of the dreaded dengue disease is leaving Delhi panic-stricken. Seven people have already died, and 107 have been admitted to various hospitals, according to the sources at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) and Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD). The number is likely to increase due …
Hong Kong is preparing to tackle the mosquito menace following a sharp rise in the number of dengue cases. Five cases were notified in 1996 and 10 in 1997, but by the end of July this year, eight had already been identified. In an attempt to prevent the disease from …
a new technique has been developed to kill the dengue causing Aedes Aegypti mosquitoes. Rays emitting from dried marigold flowers dipped in 100 per cent alcohol and ground into a fine paste can keep the deadly mosquitoes at bay. Arun Patnaik of the Indian Institute of Sciences, Bangalore, who has …
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 …
HAVING learnt from past experience, health officials and the government are all set tackle the threat of dengue in Delhi this year. A proceedings of a conference on "Dengue outbreak in Delhi:1996", organised by the Ranbaxy Science Foundation in December 1996,were released by Delhi health minister Harsh Vardhan on May …
heating of the planet can cause the dreaded dengue fever to rise to epidemic proportions. Simon Hales and colleagues at the Wellington School of Medicine in New Zealand believe that the occurrence of dengue fever in South Pacific islands could have been the result of regional climate changes, which depend …
ON OCTOBER 17, two-and-half year old Kanika Agarwal bled to death due to dengue fever. That is nothing new to the citizens of Delhi, who saw close to 300 people (if the government is to be believed) die in the epidemic (which the government denies). But the fact that she …
close on the heels of the dengue, yellow fever is threatening to break out in India, according to the World Health Organization. The Aedes aegypti mosquito which spreads the dengue fever can also carry the yellow fever virus, said the Heart Care Foundation of India, New Delhi. However, Pradeep Seth, …
it took more than a 100 deaths in New Delhi to shake the government out of its apathy to the dengue epidemic. The World Health Organization ( who ) recently revealed that it had warned the Union health ministry and New Delhi's civic bodies in early September about an impending …
• Delhi has the dubious distinction of being the fourth most polluted city in the world according to a report prepared by the committee on environment and forests which was tabled recently in the Parliament. Every day, about 2,000 million tonnes of pollutants are added to the city's air each …
set a thief to catch a thief, goes the saying. In a remarkable molecular biological variant, scientists have made use of one virus to prevent the growth of another. The two under discussion are the sindbis virus (non-specific rna virus that infects insects) and the dengue virus. Dengue is a …
Researchers, using needles thinner than human hair, have injected mosquitoes with an aJtered virus that blocked the insects' ability to transmit dengue fever, a major killer i&the; tropics, "We don't know how practical this is," said Ken Olson, a researcher at the Oregon State University, US, "But we have shown …
Vietnam is gearing up to combat dengue, a mosquito-bome fever which kills thousands of children in Asia and more than a million worldwide. Aus Aid, Australia's national aid agency, is helping it in its endeavour. They are planning to use an organism called mesocyclops to get rid of the deadly …
Planet earth's unhappy rendezvous with deadly viruses contin- ues unabated: this time it is the mosquito-borne dengue. The outbreak has occured in Central America and Mexico's southern states. Dengue is caused by 4 viruses spread largely by the JAedes aegypti mosquito. "It's becoming endemic to many areas in the American …
The Caribbean region has been warned by a dengue fever alert issued by the Pan American Health Organisation. Although dengue fever is endemic to the region, so far the periodic outbreaks have been caused only by dengue viruses of the 1, 2 and 4 strains. However, experts fear the worst …
A SAFE vaccine against dengue and dengue haemorrhagic fever has been developed by scientists at Bangkok's Mahidol University, who have been working on a WHO-sponsored research programme for the last 13 years. Dengue is transmitted by the bite of the infective Aedes aegypti mosquito and is caused by the dengue …
