Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
The construction of dams in Africa is often associated with adverse malaria impacts in surrounding communities. However, the degree and nature of these impacts are rarely quantified and the feasibility of environmental control measures (e.g.,manipulation of reservoir water levels) to mitigate malaria impacts has not been previously investigated in Africa. …
Scientists go door to door to bring the pests in, PCR test tells them which ones are dangerous OVER the last few years, people from some villages of Orissa got used to a team of researchers knocking on their doors at five in the morning. The team was on a …
The researchers from the Regional Medical Research Centre and Institute of Life Sciences, Bhubaneswar, also used the PCR technique to detect the chloroquine-resistant strains of Plasmodium falciparum. The drug chloroquine was used in treating malaria until the parasite developed resistance to it. Using PCR, the scientists easily detected the chloroquine-resistant …
Ahmedabad : Delayed monsoon might have come as a blessing in disguise for Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) authorities as they have managed to buy time from the 1,000-odd striking link workers who are responsible for carrying out door-to-door disease detection activities, primarily for anti-malaria drive. The workers had gone on …
One solution: Ivermectin kills the mosquito that is infected with the malaria parasite, and thus stops the transmission of the disease. Recall the saying
CHANDIGARH: The Centre has sanctioned a Rs.1.75-crore scheme for Haryana under the National Vector-Borne Disease Control Programme for prevention of vector-borne diseases like Malaria, Dengue, Japanese Encephalitis (JE) and Chikungunia in the State, Director Health Services (Malaria) Satbir Chaudhry said on Wednesday. Presiding over a meeting of District Malaria Officers …
Ahmedabad : Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) is carrying out a drive to clean city ponds infested with vegetation located in different municipal zones. These ponds are potential mosquito breeding ground. Already, AMC has cleared Chandola lake in Danilimda and two other ponds in Ramol and Sarkhej. For the first time, …
The Delhi government will soon set up a high-level committee to ensure integrated approach to tackle vector-borne diseases, particularly during monsoon in the national capital.
Chikungunya fever struck the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in July 2006. The authors did a prospective observational feasibility study in one peri-urban locality (Brookshabad) to assess the Aedes spp. infestation and subsequently test the efficacy of a community-based approach to control Aedes aegypti.
The risk of Plasmodium falciparum infection is variable over space and time and this variability is related to environmental variability. Environmental factors affect the biological cycle of both vector and parasite. Despite this strong relationship, environmental effects have rarely been included in malaria transmission models. Remote sensing data on environment …
Agartala, April 5: Tripura government has started the extensive use of Artesunate Combination Therapy (ACT), a second generation drug against malaria in Tripura while setting a target to distribute six lakh mosquito-nets before the next monsoon, besides spraying DDT in sensitive locations of the state at least for the next …
Integrated Disease Vector Control (IDVC) project had its beginning in Kheda district of Gujarat way back in 1983. With the demonstrated success of malaria control using environmental approaches in select villages of Nadiad Taluka, the project jointly funded by the Indian Council of Medical Research and Ministry of Health and …
Mosquitoes are getting better at evading pest control for long mosquitoes have been resisting pest control. They are only getting better at it. From 1977 to 1997, India spent more than a quarter of its health budget on malaria control. Yet it remains a formidable public health challenge in the …
Malaria control in Africa is most tractable in urban settlements yet most research has focused on rural settings. Elimination of malaria transmission from urban areas may require larval control strategies that complement adult mosquito control using insecticide-treated nets or houses, particularly where vectors feed outdoors.
Decades ago, in the wake of increasing chemical pesticide-related deaths, researchers sought to reinvent commercially viable alternatives to conventional pesticides. By the 1970s, optimism was high that future pest control schemes would increasingly incorporate novel methods including the use of biocontrol agents. Application of the sterile male technique in mosquito …
National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) proposes to bring down child and mother mortality rates. Child mortality rate stands at 44 per thousand (within one year) and 40 per thousand (within one month) while mother mortality rules at 228 per one lakh in the district. The NRHM plans to bring down …
This report provides an overview of the global distribution of malaria cases and deaths and documents how control strategies recommended by WHO have been adopted and implemented in endemic countries.
