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 …
Healthcare and Nutrition Ministry has taken steps to control Chickungunya now spreading in Kuruwita, Kiriella and Eheliyagoda DS divisions in the Ratnapura district, Healthcare and Nutrition Ministry spokesman said. He said the Ministry has implemented an action plan under the direction of Health Minister Nimal Siripala De Silva and deployed …
Sri Lanka Health Ministry says that 500,000 families living in the war ravaged Kilinochchi and Mullaitivu districts are vulnerable to diseases spread by mosquitoes such as dengue, chikungunya and malaria. According to the Ministry prevailing rainy weather conditions in these areas has created this situation. Hospital sources in Anuradhapura said …
Chikungunya has raised its head in certain parts of the country mainly due to inclement weather but there is no threat of an epidemic, Government Chief Epidemiologist Dr. Nihal Abeysingha said yesterday. "We have received information that there had been an increase of patients who get hospital treatment for symptoms …
The State government is ready with an action plan to prevent the recurrence of chikungunya and other epidemics, Health Minister P.K. Sreemathy told the Assembly on Monday. Answering a submission from Kerala Congress (M) leader K.M. Mani, she said the government had sanctioned a sum of Rs.48.3 crore to the …
Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) Chief Medical Officer Dr. Pradeep Kariyawasam yesterday said the number of Chikungunya cases may double with the onset of the rainy season in the city as shortage of staff has badly crippled day-to-day functions of his department. There are many reported cases in Bambalapitiya where a …
The people of Deraniyagala have been warned about the spread of chikungunya in the area. About 150 are suspected to have contracted this disease, said Dr. A. N. Palinda Karunatilleke, DMO, Eratne Rural Hospital. Dr. Karunatilleke has informed the Public Health Inspector to create an awareness among the public about …
Researchers have developed the first animal model of the infection caused by chikungunya virus (CHIKV), an emerging arbovirus associated with large-scale epidemics that hit the Indian Ocean, seriously affecting the French Island of La Reunion in 2005, before spreading to India, and Italy in 2007. Using a mouse model, scientists …
An increase in the incidence of chikungunya has been reported in certain pockets in the Ratnapura district and the Epidemiology Unit of the Healthcare and Nutrition Ministry has taken precautionary measures to prevent an epidemic, the chief government epidemiologist Dr. Nihal Abeysingha said yesterday. "We have found seven chikungunya cases …
a new diagnostic kit can distinguish dengue from chikungunya virus faster. Developed by the Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology, Thiruvananthapuram, the kit helps in distinguishing between the two viruses within two to three days of symptoms showing up. Symptoms of the two diseases are more or less similar and regular …
An explosive outbreak in a remote corner of France--and fears that it may threaten Europe and the United States--have brought fresh attention to an exotic virus.
chikungunya has re-emerged in Maharashtra, like it had in 2006. This time round, Kolhapur is the worst-affected district with 22 cases reported in April and May, followed by Sangli with four cases, says P P Doke, deputy director of health services, Maharashtra government. There are a total of 30 confirmed …
The Chikungunya virus has travelled from south India across the seven seas to the us, piggybacking on travellers to the subcontinent in 2005-06. The alarm was raised by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Colorado when it published findings of a serum sample survey in the May 2007 …
indian researchers have developed a rapid test for chikungunya virus, which they claim to be "more sensitive' and "more specific' than current diagnostic techniques. The test will detect the viral gene in serum samples of patients. This new reverse transcription loop-mediated isothermal amplification (rt-lamp) test is developed by India's Defence …
In late 2005, an unidentified disease was noticed with rapidly increasing regularity in the southern and western parts of the country. It appeared to be severely debilitating, inducing high fever and excruciating pain in the joints, which would persist much after the fever subsided. The first batch of cases was …
