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 …
Despite a significant dip in mercury levels, the Capital continues to report a substantial number of fresh dengue cases. According to the MCD, 35 new cases of the vectorborne disease were recorded on Tuesday, taking the total number this season to 5,837. Cases of dengue generally start declining with the …
New Delhi: While dengue is showing a downward trend, chikungunya cases are on the rise. Though MCD maintains that so far just 33 cases have been reported in the city, residents of upmarket colonies like Jangpura, Defence Colony, Green Park and Vasant Kunj claim the disease is on the rise …
NEW DELHI: The Delhi Government has sanctioned an additional Rs.35 crore to the Municipal Corporation of Delhi for intensifying anti-larval and anti-vector measures to effectively control diseases like dengue, chikungunya and malaria in the Capital. This was decided at a high-level meeting attended by Health Minister Prof. Kiran Walia and …
New Delhi: Due to a rise in the number of Chikungunya cases in the city, there is growing concern about the steps and precautions that need to be taken once someone is inflicted with the virus. Doctors warn that while severe joint pain and continuing weakness might be a cause …
College students will be the new warriors in the war against malaria. The Haffkine Institute of Training, Research and Testing (HITRT) will engage college students in collecting dead mosquito samples to zero down on the type and origin of the mosquitoes in the city, to fight the mosquito menace effectively. …
Alongside dengue, malaria, conjunctivitis and viral fever, Delhiites are now fighting rising chikungunya cases with the Municipal Corporation of Delhi already reporting 21 cases in the past 30 days. According to the World Health Organisation, chikungunya is a viral disease that is spread by mosquitoes. It causes fever and severe …
The nation, it seems, is in the sickroom this monsoon. Hospitals in Delhi are overcrowded with dengue cases, running into a few thousands, and last week, more than 75 cases were detected on a single day. Outbreaks of chikungunya have been declared over the last two months in as many …
Doctors insist chikungunya is not as big a concern as malaria, but as many as 22 people have tested positive for chikungunya this monsoon and admitted in hospitals across the city. The number of people going in for tests has risen to around 150 from last year
Six new chikungunya cases were reported in the Capital on Wednesday, taking the total number of cases reported so far in the Capital to eight. All six new cases were reported from Palam and the surrounding areas in Najafgarh, according to MCD Medical Relief and Public Health Committee Dr. V. …
KOCHI: The people in Kerala have been living under the threat of various vector-borne diseases (VBDs) like chikungunya and dengue. Such diseases have been spreading in the state at an unprecedented scale. This has raised many questions about the health standards being practised here. Against this backdrop, Duane J Gubler, …
It’s the season for mosquito-borne illnesses. After malaria and dengue, yet another mosquito-borne viral illness, chikungunya, has reared its head, much to the dismay of overburdened doctors and patients in the city. “There has been a sudden spurt in dengue and chikungunya cases,” said Dr Om Shrivastav, consultant on infectious …
Gandhinagar: Even as swine flu raises its ugly head in the state once again, Gujarat faces grave threat from the growing mosquito menace as well. After the chikungunya and dengue outbreak in 2006, National Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune, had warned Gujarat government that onslaught of Aedes Aegypti mosquito will …
In the last fortnight, Ponda taluka has seen the highest number of cases of chikungunya and dengue, even as a total of 271 cases of the former and 71 of the latter have been reported till date from the beginning of the year.From July 24 to August 6, Ponda had …
Allaying fears about rising cases of dengue and chikungunya, Health and Civic officials on Tuesday asserted both the viral fevers were under control and no dengue deaths had been reported this year in Karnataka. "There is no cause for panic among the people about dengue and chikungunya fevers as both …
With three dengue cases reported in the taluk concerns over outbreak of chikungunya and dengue fever have resurfaced bringing back painful memories of the previous year when almost all the families suffered from either chikungunya or dengue and hospitals were crowded. Dengue, which appears five to six days after mosquito …
Hyderabad, July 2: People with positive blood groups should take extra precautions against Chikungunya as the virus that causes this extremely painful disease has greater affinity to positive blood groups. Chikungunya, which is transmitted by the female Aedes mosquito, affects about a million people every year in the country, particularly …
Poornima Nataraj Bangalore, June 23, DHNS The rainy season has not only shown the lack of preparedness by civic agencies, but has also led to new mosquito related health outbreaks in the City. The State Health Department has reported 251 dengue cases and 310 chikungunya cases this year from January …
Rashmi Menon, Bangalore, June 18, DHNS: The arrival of monsoon seems to have brought in an unknown viral fever in the City. Apart from the usual suspects - dengue, malaria and chikungunya - hospitals are noticing people coming with viral syndrome. The doctors, however, are unable to identify the virus …
