The doctors are advising the public to eat a healthy diet and keep themselves away from any such place that breeds mosquitoes. Hyderabad: With the onset of monsoon in Hyderabad, cases of vector and water-borne diseases have witnessed a surge in the city. Speaking to ANI, Superintendent of Hyderabad-based Government …
Well-publicised campaigns including street plays should be organised to spread awareness on vector borne diseases dengue and chikungunya, the Delhi high court said on Monday. Faulting the Centre and the three municipal corporations, the bench said they should wake up to the menace posed by the diseases. A bench of …
Awareness spread to check mosquito breeding at source Thirty-one cases of dengue and five cases of chikungunya have been reported from Mysuru district in the year 2017. The authorities of the Health and Family Welfare department have been taking steps to spread awareness about maintaining cleanliness and hygiene across the …
Thiruvananthapuram: If you thought you are safe indoors, here comes the shocker. According to health officials, the urban culture and changing lifestyles have brought in a major change to the breeding spots of mosquitoes, which have now migrated from backyards to indoors. As many as 50 houses were visited by …
The district Health Department is all set to take the help of gambusia fish to check dengue and malaria by introducing the same in ponds in rural areas. A record number of over 1,500 dengue patients were reported in te district in the previous year. The disease had caused at …
On Tuesday, counsels for Delhi government, Union government and the three civic bodies were present before the court. The Delhi High Court Tuesday rapped authorities for their failure to take preventive measures to prevent the outbreak of dengue and chikungunya. On Tuesday, counsels for Delhi government, Union government and the …
AHMEDABAD: Vector-borne infections are on the rise despite the rising temperatures, with the number of cases of malaria being particularly high. According to the weekly health report of the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC), 299 cases of vector-borne infections were reported in the city this month till Saturday. Of these, 290 …
An EDUSAT session on awareness regarding dengue and chikungunya shall be relayed for the children of government schools across the state on May 16. In a letter to all DEOs of the state, the DGSE has told schools to ensure that all upper primary students at their respective government schools …
With cases of dengue and chikungunya continuing to rise in the city, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal wrote to Union Health Minister JP Nadda, requesting him to reserve 10 per cent of beds in central government-run hospitals for the treatment of dengue and chikungunya patients. In his letter to Nadda, …
Last month, major dailies had reported at least 79 cases of chikungunya and 24 cases of Dengue based on data provided by the SDMC. A principal bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Thursday appointed ten young lawyers as local commissioners to check, inspect and prepare inspection reports on …
The court asked all the local bodies to place before it their respective statutes to ascertain who can be held responsible for ensuring that the court's directions are complied with. The Delhi High Court today favoured the setting up of a high-level committee for taking effective measures against recurrence of …
The meeting will also focus on the experience of the authorities in fighting the spread of dengue and chikungunya last year. Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has called a meeting with his ministers, all civic bodies and medical superintendents of hospitals on May 13 to review the preparedness for dealing with …
NEW DELHI: Unless senior officers get out of their airconditioned offices, nothing will happen, the Delhi high court said on Monday in a blunt message to AAP government and the corporations, as it sought to fix accountability to prevent dengue and chikangunya outbreak. "Who will give us a certificate that …
Taking note of Tuesday's TOI report highlighting lack of preparedness in fighting dengue and chikungunya in the city, the high court on Tuesday demanded answers. The news article which cited a recent CAG report placed in Delhi Assembly last month was referred to by a bench of Acting Chief Justice …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Joint research by scientists from Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology (RGCB) here and the US-based Emory Vaccine Center have identified a crucial component from skin mucus of a species of a frog, a peptide that kills all H1influenza viruses. Now, the scientists are exploring the possibility of developing anti-viral …
Ranchi: The Raghubar Das government has asked the Union health ministry to supply 60 lakh medicated mosquito nets to tackle dengue, malaria and other vector-borne diseases in the state. The department of health, medical education and family welfare wrote to the Centre earlier this month, seeking the consignment for distribution …
Haryana Health Minister Anil Vij has directed all district hospitals to set up machines to conduct dengue test and blood component separators by May 31, so as to provide right treatment to patients suffering from dengue, chikungunya and vector-borne diseases. Vij said no private hospital would be allowed to declare …
The state health department has instructed hospitals to treat patients coming with fever-like symptoms at the earliest The early emergence of dengue and chikungunya in Delhi has put the authorities on high alert. Civic bodies and the health department have shifted into preventive mode to avoid another major outbreak. The …
South Asia despite decreasing rates of infectious disease, accounts for a significant proportion of their global burden. The sub-continent is also in the midst of rapid economic growth; large scale changes in land use, access to water and sanitation, and agricultural production; environmental degradation; and technological transformation, all against a …
Chikungunya virus is a mosquito-borne alphavirus which causes an acute febrile illness associated with polyarthralgia. Beginning in August 2013, clinicians from the Yap State Department of Health in the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) identified an unusual cluster of illness which was subsequently confirmed to be chikungunya virus disease. Chikungunya …
Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) infection has recently witnessed re-emergence, affecting rural areas of India with high morbidity rates. This prospective study was conducted to evaluate seroprevalence and clinical manifestation in targeted villages reporting cases of CHIKV infection. A total of 482 patients were recruited from Kalmana and Kothari villages of Ballarpur; …
