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 …
Chikungunya and dengue infections are spatio-temporally related. The current review aims to determine the geographic limits of chikungunya, dengue and the principal mosquito vectors for both viruses and to synthesise current epidemiological understanding of their co-distribution. Three biomedical databases (PubMed, Scopus and Web of Science) were searched from their inception …
The steep rise in socio-economic burden due to vector-borne diseases like dengue, malaria, chikungunya, and Zika has prompted the World Health Organisation (WHO) to ask member countries, including India, to focus on mosquito control. Estimates of the UN agency show incidence of dengue alone has risen 30-fold worldwide over the …
A Maharashtra firm is getting ready to find out whether genetically engineered mosquitoes can be a useful tool to check the growth of the insect. Even as panic spreads worldwide over the Zika virus, harboured by the mosquito species that spreads dengue and chikungunya, a Maharashtra company is getting ready …
The health ministry has issued detailed guidelines to prevent an outbreak of the fast-spreading Zika virus in the country. Zika, which causes rashes, fever, joint pain and is linked to birth defects, has rapidly spread across Latin America. The intensified efforts of the government follow the World Health Organization (WHO) …
After dengue and Chikungunya, the Zika virus, which has caused a global scare, is seen as a threat to people in Indian subcontinent. The reason: the virus spreads through the bite of an infected mosquito Aedes Egypty, which breeds in fresh water, and given India's poor public hygiene, such pools …
An experimental vaccine to protect against the mosquito-borne illness chikungunya is being tested in a Phase 2 trial sponsored by the National Institutes of Health. Results from an initial trial of the vaccine, which was developed by scientists at the NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), were …
It is a probable dengue death case as the report from the PGI stated that the victim had dengue haemorrhagic fever, stated Dr Anil Garg, of the Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme, a day after a 14-year-old boy from Sector 33, Chandigarh, died. “We sought a report from the PGI, which …
AURANGABAD: The dreaded chikungunya and dengue are returning to different parts of the city but the official records draw a blank on the number of cases. While the health officials from both the Government Medical College and Hospital and the Aurangabad Municipal Corporation agreed that cases of chikungunya are being …
Dengue and chikungunya are rapidly expanding viruses transmitted by mosquitoes of the genus Aedes. Few epidemiological studies have examined the extent of transmission of these infections in South India despite an increase in the number of reported cases, and a high suitability for transmission. Original Source
The first identified Chikungunya outbreak occurred in Bangladesh in 2008. In late October 2011, a local health official from Dohar Sub-district, Dhaka District, reported an outbreak of undiagnosed fever and joint pain. We investigated the outbreak to confirm the etiology, describe the clinical presentation, and identify associated vectors. Original Source
Extreme precipitation events are increasing as a result of ongoing global warming, but controversy surrounds the relationship between flooding and mosquito-borne diseases. A common view among the scientific community and public health officers is that heavy rainfalls have a flushing effect on breeding sites, which negatively affects vector populations, thereby …
PUNE: Experts have cautioned citizens against the rise in mosquito-borne diseases after Wednesday's heavy downpour. Pointing at likely accumulation of water in unused or discarded objects, they said: "This may result in new breeding sites for Aedes aegypti mosquito that can spread dengue and chikungunya among other diseases." The number …
Malaria, dengue fever and other deadly exotic diseases could become an established part of British life in a matter of decades, public health experts have warned. The emergence of the illnesses is likely to be driven by climate change, which will make it easier for mosquitoes and other blood-sucking insects …
LONDON: Climate change could accelerate the emergence of vector-borne diseases such as chikungunya, dengue fever, and West Nile virus in Britain, says a new study. The findings detailed in the journal The Lancet Infectious Diseases indicate that vector-borne diseases, which are transmitted by insects such as mosquitoes and ticks, are …
Malaria, dengue fever and other deadly exotic diseases could become an established part of British life in a matter of decades, public health experts have warned. The emergence of the illnesses is likely to be driven by climate change, which will make it easier for mosquitoes and other blood-sucking insects …
Mosquitoes could bring diseases such as dengue fever and West Nile virus to the UK within the next few decades, experts are warning. Writing in The Lancet Infectious Diseases journal, they said warmer UK temperatures could make conditions favourable for the insects to breed. However, climate change is just one …
The presence of the recently introduced primary dengue virus vector mosquito Aedes aegypti in Nepal, in association with the likely indigenous secondary vector Aedes albopictus, raises public health concerns. Chikungunya fever cases have also been reported in Nepal, and the virus causing this disease is also transmitted by these mosquito …
The Ministry of Health is reporting that of the notification of 14 deaths suspected to be related to chikungunya, two of those have so far been confirmed as having had the virus. According to acting Chief Medical Officer in the ministry, Dr Marion Bullock-DuCasse, of the 14 cases notified, there …
Insect predators such as dragonflies and other aquatic bugs may help protect us from infectious diseases, according to a new study. In recent decades, humans have altered biodiversity around the globe as the result of activities including deforestation, man-made climate change and pollution. Meanwhile, outbreaks of infectious diseases like chikungunya, …
THE Government of Jamaica has signed an agreement with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to allocate US$250,000 of grant resources to improve national surveillance, prevention and control of infectious diseases like Ebola and Chikungunya. The grant will "strengthen the public health capacity within the Ministry of Health, to prevent and …
