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 …
WHO panel proposed treaty requires all governments to share cost India supports a proposed legally binding global instrument that requires all governments to share the cost of research and development (R&D;). The treaty, recommended by a World Health Organisation panel, will boost access to countries least able to pay for …
Even though monsoon is yet to hit the State, Canacona has seen phenomenal rise in Vivax malaria cases with as many as 25 positive cases reported in May itself. According to the data collected from Canacona Health Officer Dr Vinod Naik, most of the malaria cases are found with workers …
Recent clusters of outbreaks of mosquito-borne diseases (Rift Valley fever and chikungunya) in Africa and parts of the Indian Ocean islands illustrate how interannual climate variability influences the changing risk patterns of disease outbreaks. Although Rift Valley fever outbreaks have been known to follow periods of above-normal rainfall, the timing …
Corporation cites environmental, topographical reasons A team of Corporation and Suchitwa Mission officials visited a government site near Palode here on Thursday as part of conducting a feasibility study for setting up a temporary garbage-treatment facility there. According to sources, setting up of a temporary plant to process waste using …
Cases of dengue-chikungunya co-infection are on the rise, causing concern to health planners and doctors. About three per cent of dengue-chikungunya cases fall under the co-infection category, with the patient suffering from both the diseases at the same time. Incidentally, the same Aedes aegypti mosquito transmits both the dengue and …
Developed for troops serving on glaciers high in the Himalayas, the non-flushing “bio-digester” toilet made by India’s top defence research body is now being offered to companies and poorer states. It is one of 200 technologies produced by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) identified as for-sale via the …
Thirty people have been primarily detected with Chikungunya fever in Shibganj upazila of the district while many others received treatment with similar symptoms here during the last one month. Chikungunya, a viral disease marked by fever, headache, rash, nausea, pain in muscles and joints, is transmitted to humans through biting …
Aedes aegypti (Linnaeus) and Aedes albopictus Skuse mosquitoes transmit serious human arboviral diseases including yellow fever, dengue and chikungunya in many tropical and sub-tropical countries. Females of the two species have adapted to undergo preimaginal development in natural or artificial collections of freshwater near human habitations and feed on human …
As the world continues to pump greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, the global temperatures could rise by 3°C by mid-century, says a soon-to-be-released report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Extreme weather events will become even more intense. Erratic monsoons and severe cyclones have already battered large parts of …
New Delhi: The cases of chikungunya have gone up by 60% in the city this year. Delhi has reported 71 cases of the mosquito-borne disease till date,including eight new cases that were reported on Friday. Last year, 43 cases of chikungunya were reported. The cases are multiplying even after winters …
JAIPUR: At least 20 Chikungunia cases have been reported so far in Udaipur. The cases seemed to be increasing with each passing day. The Usarda village in Udaipur is in complete surveillance of the state medical and health department as various residents of the area are complaining about joint pain …
The total number of fever deaths reported in the district this year has more than doubled from last year. While a total of 8 cases were reported in 2010, the number has so far reached 20 this year. The increase is mainly owing to the diseases including leptospirosis (rat fever), …
An outbreak of diseases, one of these being described as a mystery illness, has taken a heavy toll on children in Andhra Pradesh’s Rayalaseema region. At least 500 children, aged between two and five, have been admitted to the Kurnool Government General Hospital with symptoms of dengue, chikungunya and “strange …
The encephalitis dance of death in eastern Uttar Pradesh and Bihar’s bordering districts looks set to cross all previous records this year. With 2-3 weeks still left in the ‘season’, the country-wide death toll is nearing the 1,000-mark, of which UP itself has a staggering toll of nearly 500. More …
The highest number of dengue cases was recorded on a single day after 24 patients tested positive on Thursday. This has taken the number of persons diagnosed with the mosquitoborne disease to 503. Eight new cases of chikungunya were also reported. Chairman of the MCD health committee, Dr V K …
Already grappling with various allergies and viral fever, Delhi has registered 479 dengue cases, 218 malaria cases, 12 cases of chikungunya and five confirmed cases of Japanese Encephalitis this season. Though Delhi Health Minister Dr. A.K. Walia said the figures were not alarming and that the situation was under control, …
After a gap of three years, chikungunya, a viral disease spread by mosquitoes, has struck in a big way at a village in Kalka. Of the 21 people from Majra Mehtab village who had reported at the local hospital with symptoms of dengue, eight have been found to be suffering …
The total number of people affected by dengue in the city has risen to 283, with 72 people testing positive for the mosquito-borne disease in the past one week here. Eight new cases of dengue were reported from different hospitals in the past 24 hours, according to the Municipal Corporation …
The steel city, which has been recently stung by Japanese encephalitis, is yet to get the medical kit from National Institute of Virology (NIV) for conducting confirmatory tests. The district surveillance office has written thrice to the Pune institute, which had sent teams to Jamshedpur twice after the outbreak of …
New Delhi: Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has issued notices to 30 government offices, schools and colleges in the last one month for mosquito-breeding on their premises. These include MTNL offices in Okhla and Mandawali, Guru Nanak Dev Khalsa College and some DTC bus depots. According to senior MCD officials, …
