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 …
KOLKATA: Dengue claimed yet another life while four others in the city and its suburbs died of a 'mystery fever' whose symptoms resembled that of the killer virus since Monday. In at least one instance, the death certificate states the cause was 'fever of unknown origin with NS1-reactive', a phrase …
NEW DELHI: Once again malaria has broken the record of last four years. According to latest reports released by the anti-malaria headquarters of the South Delhi municipal corporation till November 4 altogether 552 cases of malaria have been reported while 423 cases were reported for the same period in 2016, …
KOLKATA: CPM councillors staged a protest demonstration against Kolkata mayor Sovan Chatterjee on Monday accusing him of failing to take effective measures to tame the dengue outbreak in the city. The protest came a day after Chatterjee and several TMC councillors conducted a drive to spray bleaching powder and larvacide …
While the dengue cases continue to surface, experts hope that there would be substantial improvement in the situation in the coming week. “The winter has started setting in. I hope that there would be substantial fall in the dengue cases from the next week,” said Dr AP Singh, a private …
KOLKATA: Kolkata Municipal Corporation mayor Sovan Chatterjee and several other KMC MMIC members and councillors took up a dengue awareness campaign in their respective wards by themselves on Sunday morning by spreading bleaching powder and spraying larvaecide. Mayor Sovan Chatterjee was seen spreading bleaching powder at Behala. "Comparing statistics of …
MUMBAI: Monsoon claimed five lives on its way out in the month of October, a civic report stated on Thursday. While dengue killed three people, malaria and hepatitis claimed a life each. With 17 deaths, dengue has emerged as the top killer this monsoon. Among the deceased in October were …
GURUGRAM: Five new cases of dengue have been reported in the city in the past two days. The health department has been put on alert mode to deal with the situation, and intense fogging has been ordered in the district. On Tuesday, two new cases and on Wednesday, three new …
BARASAT: Three dengue deaths were reported from the city's northern suburbs on Tuesday and Wednesday, taking the dengue-related deaths in North 24 Paraganas to 30 in the past three months. Apart from them, three Bongaon residents died of a "mysterious fever". Barasat trader Dulal Modak, 40, died in a private …
Patients rush to private hospitals outside J&K; With 424 patients testing positive for dengue since the disease broke out this season in the region, particularly Jammu and Kathua districts, the state administration has been caught napping in dealing with the outbreak. The fear-stricken patients, who failed to get “basic treatment” …
MUMBAI: A dengue-positive patient here is more likely to be a male in the 21-40 age group with fever that lasts between one and three days. Every 10th patient could have complications such as kidney failure, jaundice or acute respiratory distress syndrome. These are some of the findings of a …
PUNE: A new dengue virus has been confirmed for the first time in the country. Scientists at Pune-based National Institute of Virology (NIV), who spotted it and had been tracking it, said the new virus of an Asian genotype (genetic structure) was a concern as it was associated with severe …
PATIALA: Punjab has recorded over 8,400 cases of dengue fever till Monday and the state health department has expressed fear that the number could go up further with hundreds of cases were being reported daily. Last year, 10,475 cases of dengue had been reported in Punjab. This year, Mohali district …
KOLKATA: Dengue claimed two more lives in the Belgharia-Kamarhati area on the northern fringes of the city since Monday night. While a septuagenarian succumbed at Kamarhati Sagar Dutta Medical College on Tuesday morning, a 40-year-old homemaker from Deganga died of dengue on Monday evening, taking the total death toll in …
Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of In Re: Outrage as parents end life after child's dengue death & Others dated 01/11/2017. The Apex Court after going through the affidavit filed on behalf of the Directorate General of Health Services stated that "various vector borne diseases …
Mamata Banerjee on dengue outbreak: There is no need to panic. Some people are trying to create a panic with a vested interest. Some corporate houses, which had opposed our decision to set up a health commission, are passing wrong information. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said that some …
Patiala: The authorities of the health department as well as Patiala municipal corporation have failed to curb the dengue menace in the district with the number of cases touching 1170 mark. The number has witnessed a rise only in last two weeks. The number of dengua cases reported till last …
KOLKATA: Under pressure from state health department, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation has decided to exempt patients from submitting photocopies of their Aadhar cards at three dengue detection centres in north Kolkata. Instead any address proof documents such as ration cards, utility bills, voter cards, driving licenses or even ID proof …
AHMEDABAD: Even as the temperatures have begun to fall, more than 1,000 cases of vector-borne infections in October were reported in Ahmedabad, says the data provided by Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC). The weekly health report released by AMC's health department suggests that some 1,027 cases of vector-borne infections were reported …
KOLKATA: The state urban development & municipal affairs department is monitoring dengue prevention activities on weekly basis in affected urban local bodies across the state, with special emphasis on North 24 Parganas. Central teams of entomologist, public health experts and doctors are visiting these ULBs regularly along with conservancy teams …
Madurai: Dengue prevention activities were carried out in Ponnagaram and Andalpuram in Madurai on Sunday, vessels in which water was not stored properly were emptied and fines were also imposed on some residents. Water was found stagnated in a syntax tank on the terrace of an office building in Ward …
