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 …
The health department has sounded alarm in the division following discovery of several cases of dengue and malaria this season. The department has set up a round the clock control room to monitor such cases and give immediate information to the department. The department is also keeping an eye on …
Dengue In Check, But Rise In Chikungunya Cases Worrying Trend New Delhi: Mosquitoes have again become a big menace in the capital. Latest MCD figures show that while dengue remains under control, cases of malaria and chikungunya have increased significantly. As many as 745 people have been diagnosed with malaria …
AHMEDABAD: After the state lost the first round of chemical warfare against mosquitoes, the state health department has been advised to update its armoury. Initially, 'white' powder - chalk mixed with 5% of a substance called malathion - was used to arrest mosquito growth. But it proved to be ineffective. …
The Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change, a panel of international experts assessing the current scientific knowledge on climate, has asserted that warming of the earth's climate system is ‘unequivocal', Fr. Ignacimuthu, Director, Entomology Research Institute, Loyola College, Chennai, said here recently. Inaugurating an international congress on “Global Warming on Biodiversity …
Bangalore : In a bid to take its civilian products to the masses, the Defence Research and Development Organisation, through its new H1N1 detection system, has made testing for the deadly flu more affordable and less time consuming. The product, which has been developed over a period of six months, …
BERHAMPUR: Two persons of Kabisuryanagar block have tested positive for dengue while seven samples tested positive for chikungunya. They have been identified as Bhagaban Mohanty (41) and Udayanath Mohanty (62). In the last fortnight, over 50 persons in villages of Kabisuryanagar block were affected by an unknown disease. It had …
Munda mulls dam request to Orissa CM, heavy rain destroys medical records at government hospital Jamshedpur, Aug. 14: A fevered East Singhbhum has switched into serious combat mode to keep a host of monsoon maladies at bay. Already in the malignant grip of vectors spreading chikungunya and dengue, the district …
KOCHI: Scientists here have developed a genetically-engineered antigen to diagnose chikungunya with greater accuracy. The scientists, from the SCMS Biotechnology Centre here, are confident that the antigen would make diagnosis of the disease more cost-effective, apart from giving accurate results. They are also just a whisker away from inventing chikungunya …
To strengthen the involvement of school children and the education department in prevention of vector-borne diseases such as dengue and chikungunya, a meeting was convened between the Municipal Corporation of Delhi's Medical Relief and Public Health Committee and its Education Committee this past week. The issues discussed at the meeting …
KOCHI: With the communicable diseases like malaria spreading in the district, the authorities with the Health Department are planning a slew of measures targeting the migrant labourers here. Though the cases of malaria have been on the rise in the district since 2000, the authorities are unable to put in …
With the onset of monsoon City have sounded a warning bell against dengue and chikungunya. Two minor girls died at the Vanivilas Hospital recently, with symptoms that were similar to dengue. Although doctors did not confirm the two as dengue deaths, they said platelet counts in both cases had dropped …
Six H1N1 deaths have occurred in the State this year in Bangalore, Yadgir, Bellary, Shimoga, Davangere and Udupi districts, while the Health department had confirmed 31 cases of the disease, out of the 896 blood samples taken, said Health Minister B Sriramulu. Of the 31 cases, 22 were reported in …
The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has made it mandatory for all city hospitals to report dengue and chikungunya cases online. Nodal officers of all 596 hospitals in the city will provide the exact figures of people hit by dengue and chikungunya, who are undergoing treatment there. The MCD
In 2005, a strain of the Chikungunya virus that arose in east Africa spread to the islands of Comoros, Mayotte, Seychelles and Reunion in the south-western Indian Ocean. Later that year, the virus began to cause large-scale outbreaks in India. The following year, some 1.4 million people in various parts …
The MCD has made it mandatory for all 33 sentinel surveillance hospitals to report all dengue and chikungunya cases online to do away with the problem of under-reporting of cases. The nodal officers of the hospitals have been trained to report the cases online, said an MCD official. All the …
Experts worldwide might well have concluded that H1N1 has run its course , but closer home the deadly virus continues to take its toll. It claimed more lives in Maharashtra in 2010-2011 than any other infectious disease , including malaria , dengue , chikungunya and encephalitis , according to figures …
The health ministry's refusal to allow the use of a highly potent mosquito control agent developed by one of its own institutes and granting permission to an imported product, has kicked up a controversy. At stake is not only a Rs.1,000 crore (approx $220 million) market, but also the eradication …
It was a year of respite for the City plagued with H1N1 influenza outbreak in 2009. The threat of the viral fever receded with the launch of two indigenous vaccines.The City witnessed two deaths due to dengue and chikungunya, but there was none in the Palike
The number of dengue cases has seen a decline over a fortnight in Delhi, even as cases of several other viral infections, including chikungunya and seasonal fever, seem to maintain a rising trend. The MCD has recorded 23 fresh cases of dengue today, pushing the cumulative count of people affected …
