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 …
Calcutta: Around 75 people have been infected with the dengue virus in the Calcutta Municipal Corporation area over the past month, the mayoral council member in charge of health said on Thursday. Atin Ghosh, the mayoral council member, also said 173 people had contracted the mosquito-borne disease in the city …
Ranchi: Twenty-one new cases of chikungunya, three of dengue and three of dengue-chikungunya combined were detected at RIMS on Wednesday, the growing numbers of the vector-borne diseases in the capital prompting state entomologist (consulting) Sagya Singh to introduce a more lethal larvicide. So far, 128 chikungunya, 22 dengue and nine …
Jaipur: It’s shocking but true that in the state, 42% dengue cases were reported from Jaipur alone during the past eight months. In the last seven days, 22 dengue cases were reported across the state but 11 of them belonged to Jaipur. Not a single week has passed from January …
GURUGRAM: Three more cases of dengue have been confirmed in the city, taking the total count to four this season. While a 30-year-old man from Bhondsi village and a 17-year-old girl from Sun City area have been detected with dengue, another man in his 30s from Naurangpur village has been …
Cuttack: Dengue patients continue to get admitted to SCB Medical College and Hospital here with the disease affecting 233 people since July 15. In the past 21 days, on a daily basis more than 10 persons have been tested positive for dengue at the hospital. This has taken the number …
SHIMLA: Union health minister J P Nadda’s home district, Bilaspur, is grappling with epidemic prone diseases, with maximum cases of dengue and scrub typhus reported from Bilaspur in Himachal Pradesh this year. Of the 611 dengue positive cases detected in the state so far, 314 are from Bilaspur while 277 …
JAIPUR: The state government has issued orders for observing every Sunday as ‘dry day’. Relax, beer guzzlers, wine lovers and regular tipplers, the order is not related to booze. Health department will observe ‘dry day’ to prevent mosquito-breeding in the state. It will encourage people to keep their air coolers, …
NEW DELHI: Delhi government has advised private hospitals and nursing homes to increase their capacity by up to 20% of the approved bed strength in view of increasing dengue, malaria and chikungunya cases. The tariff levied for such beds shall not be more than 50% of the lowest category at …
Anti-larvae teams of the Health Department and the Jalandhar Municipal Corporation detected 15 dengue larvae cases on Thursday during its ongoing drive against vector-borne diseases. Out of 15 cases, 11 were found in desert coolers. Four teams, led by Raj Kumar, Gurwinder Singh, Harjit Kumar and Gurpal Singh carried out …
In a first, Australian researchers have successfully protected an entire city from dengue outbreaks by deploying captive-bred mosquitoes that are unable to spread the deadly virus. Mosquitoes bred to carry naturally-occurring Wolbachia bacteria, which prevents the transmission of viruses, were let loose over 66 square kilometres of Townsville, Queensland in …
HYDERABAD: Dengue is virtually on the prowl in Hyderabad and Telangana this year. If official statistics are any indication, dengue prevalence over Telangana has more than doubled so far this year (January 1 to July 20) as compared to the corresponding period last year. In the last week alone, 56 …
HYDERABAD: Coinfection of dengue with other similar ailments like malaria and chikungunya makes matters worse for patients and diagnosis difficult for doctors. With cases of coinfection on the rise, doctors say they are finding it difficult to diagnose the health issue. As all the three pathogens causing malaria, dengue and …
NEW DELHI: The capital’s three civic bodies have time and again complained about lack of money when it comes to executing key projects. However, it has emerged that north corporation has failed to utilise most of the funds sanctioned under the dengue control programme in the last one year or …
Australian researchers say for the first time an entire city has been protected from viral disease dengue. Captive-bred mosquitoes with a naturally occurring bacteria were released in the city of Townsville, where they mated with local mosquitoes. By spreading the bacteria Wolbachia, which hinders dengue transmission, the city has been …
KOLKATA: In a desperate attempt to enforce strict dengue prevention rules at city’s construction sites, the Kolkata Municipal Corporation has served ‘stop work’ notices to as many as 50 under-construction buildings across the city. At least three major housing projects were not spared from the civic wrath. According to Atin …
GURUGRAM: At least 530 houses, where clean water was found in tanks, plant pots or other containers on the roof or in ditches near the premises, have been issued notices by the Civil hospital’s chief medical officer (CMO) to get rid of the same. The move has been taken to …
The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation has found 21 construction sites, four schools and a BRTS workshops, which are the most prominent sites of mosquito breeding. The civic body has been conducting an inspection of mosquito breeding sites since a week. Administration charge worth Rs 2.65 lakh has been levied on these …
Health Department sends show-cause notices, seeks explanation The Health Department has sent show-cause notices to 18 government offices, including the Punjab Secretariat, Mini Secretariat, Kendriya Sadan, Chandigarh Police headquarters and the Chandigarh Housing Board (CHB), after dengue larvae was found in desert coolers installed there. “We have sent notices to …
Dehradun: This year’s dengue incidents in the state have started surfacing from Kumaon region with four cases reported in Nainital and two in Udham Singh Nagar districts. Last year, Uttarakhand had recorded 849 dengue cases. Health officials said that this year, students have been roped in to spread awareness about …
NEW DELHI: At least 29 cases of malaria have been reported in the first three weeks of July in Delhi, taking the total number of people affected by the vector-borne disease in the national capital this season to 75, according to a municipal report released on Monday. Two cases of …