The Bihar Health Department has issued the notification of Bihar Epidemic Diseases Covid-19 Rules 2023 regarding effective control over Bihar Epidemic Covid-19. In the new rules, the responsibility of all the hospitals from the state level to the district level has been fixed for its control. In the manual prepared …
the row over licensing of avian flu drug Tamiflu, has given a glimpse of how the issue of access to drugs will be handled, in future public health emergencies. The Swiss pharma major, Roche, which has properietory rights over the drugs, had finally agreed to talk with generic drug manufacturers …
rochevs. Ranbaxy. North vs. South. David vs. Goliath. This is how the media has presented the patent row between Roche and Indian generics manufacturers over the production of the drug Tamiflu, one of only two known treatments for avian flu, a disease that kills over half of the people it …
Malaysia reported more than 1,000 suspected cases of dengue, although, many turned out to be false alarms. 76 people have fallen to the disease so far, this year; 68 deaths were reported for the same period last year. Neighbour Singapore too, is fighting its worst dengue epidemic ever and has …
over 500 people were affected and 12 children died in an outbreak of waterborne epidemic in Landhi Town of Karachi just two weeks after a similar situation in the Essa Nagri area. In July this year the quality control department of the city district government, Karachi had sent a report …
epidemic in up: Japanese encephalitis (JE) has killed 153 people in eastern Uttar Pradesh, especially in Mahrajganj, Kushinagar, Gorakhpur, Sant Kabirnagar, Siddharthanagr and Deoria. As many as 530 suspected cases had been reported as of August 22, 2005. Authorities fear the situation can be controlled only after the monsoon season …
two teams of scientists in China have reported an outbreak of a new strain of a bird flu virus that has killed thousands of wild migratory birds in western China. The virus
Over 90 per cent of Tanzania's population (over 30 million people) is threatened by an elephantiasis (lymphatic filaria) epidemic. On May 23, 2005, Tanzania's assistant minister for health Hussein Mwinyi said the danger was "great'; "the situation could get worse if the trend is left unchecked'. The National Institute for …
A mid pronouncements of a possible global bird flu pandemic by scientists from the West, reports came in from China on May 27, 2005, indicating a dangerous spread of the disease there. Director general of Chinese agriculture ministry's veterinary bureau, Jia Youling, said the number of migratory birds recently killed …
axis of trade: Iran is set to join the World Trade Organisation (WTO), after the recent decision by the US to end a diplomatic block that had prevented its entry into the international body since 1996. The USapproval was aimed at stimulating talks held in Geneva between Iran and the …
an international study suggests cholera epidemics may end due to prolific growth of viruses called cholera phages that eat the disease-causing bugs. The study was conducted by scientists from Kolkata-based National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases, Dhaka-based International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research and Harvard Medical School in Boston, …
angola is facing an epidemic of Marburg haemorrhagic fever that has claimed as many as 244 lives since October 2004. The World Health Organization (who) confirmed the epidemic on March 23, 2005 on the basis of tests done by the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (cdc) in the us. …
Indifference is bliss, at least for the government. In the past almost five years, government authorities in western Uttar Pradesh have been unable to check a mystery fever that devours hundreds of children in the post-monsoon period, before the onset of winter (see
there exists in India a particularly inactive version of beadledom called the healthcare bureaucracy. Its task is to look after, literally, the body politic. To this end, it is required to track down disease outbreaks, and speedily stamp on these its dread authority. Continuous monitoring is also a core function, …
Another species has fallen to bird flu. Thai authorities have decided to kill 80 tigers in the Sriracha Tiger Zoo in Chonburi province to contain the disease. Thirty tigers in the zoo have already died. More than 400 tigers there were regularly fed raw chicken that could have carried the …
Japan might ease its total ban on us beef. It is considering granting an exemption to us cows aged 20 months or younger from testing for mad cow disease before shipping. The proposal was recently submitted by Japan's agriculture and health ministries to the government's Food Safety Commission for approval. …
the fear of an influenza pandemic has gripped the world following reports of the first case of human-to-human transmission of bird flu in Thailand. So far, the disease had only been transmitted to humans from birds. A spokesperson of the World Health Organization (who) South East Asia Region recently voiced …
With dengue fever spreading in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Indonesia and Sri Lanka, the World Health Organisation (who) has issued a warning to all neighbouring countries. Around 658 people have died in Indonesia, 59 in Sri Lanka and three in Bangladesh. There are around 68,000 suspected cases of the disease. Bhutan, which …
function graph() { var popurl="image/20040831/39-graph.jpg" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=290,height=320,scrollbars=yes") } In mid-May this year, Hyderabad in Pakistan's Sindh province was hit by a severe diarrhoea epidemic. The pestilence, which lasted for two months, claimed 38 lives
scientists may open the Pandora's box if they are given the go-ahead to create a new form of the flu virus. This is the grim message of an article published recently in the acclaimed journal Science (Vol 305, No 5684, July 30, 2004). The article ponders over the repercussions of …
A Nipah-like virus, linked to the Siliguri fever of 2001, is the most likely cause of an epidemic that has afflicted Bangladesh. Until January, the pathogen had claimed more than 14 lives and affected 42 others. Now, 45 new cases are under investigation. The areas of high incidence are Manikganj …
