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 …
A weekly health report of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) suggests an unusual rise in the vector-borne diseases. The health department of the civic body, on Monday, reported 51 vector-borne cases within 20 days of the month. Generally, the vector-borne diseases appear during monsoon and post-monsoon period. The vector-borne diseases have …
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday pledged to partner with Kenya’s Ministry of Health to help contain the highly infectious and mosquito-borne Chikungunya disease in the coastal city of Mombasa. WHO said a partnership with the ministry of health and Mombasa county government will strengthen monitoring, diagnosis and treatment …
Scrub typhus, encephalitis, malaria are other reasons, says multi-centre study A multi-centric observational study of 34 Intensive Care Units (ICUs) across India on 456 patients — critically ill adults and children with non-localised fever — has found that dengue was the reason for most ICU admissions (105.23%) across the country. …
Nearly seven out of 10 malaria cases in Tamil Nadu were reported from Chennai in 2017, according to data from the directorate of public health. The city had reported 3,303 of the total 4,671 malaria cases in the state till October 2017. In the eight months, the city had reported …
Use handheld devices like ones used by traffic police: HC The Delhi High Court on Tuesday suggested the civic bodies here to collect fines on the spot from people found littering, using handheld electronic devices like the ones used by the traffic police. Corruption allegations “It will obliterate any allegation …
NEW DELHI: A report by the municipal corporations of Delhi has confirmed that 10 people died because of dengue in the city hospitals last year. Malaria claimed five lives, taking the total number of fatalities caused by mosquito-borne diseases to 15. The report, released by South Delhi Municipal Corporation that …
CHENNAI: It was not just dengue cases that went up in Tamil Nadu during the 2017 epidemic. There was an increase in the incidence of at least three other mosquito-borne diseases, shows data provided by the state health department to the National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme. There was an …
AHMEDABAD: While civic authorities claim having intensified efforts to curb vector-borne diseases, data of AMC's health department shows that in 2017 alone, 9,277 people in the city suffered from malaria. These are only conservative estimates and the actual numbers may be higher because AMC only seeks data from civic body-run …
The mosquito-borne tropical disease had claimed its first victim in the city this year on August 1, when a 12-year-old boy died of dengue shock syndromes at the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital (SGRH). The season for vector-borne diseases has come to an end, with a municipal report on Monday saying …
Health officials examine serum samples of 49,702 patients Pune and Mumbai have registered the highest number of deaths due to dengue this year. Out of 34 deaths across the state, there were 17 deaths in Greater Mumbai and 12 in Pune. Last year, there were 27 deaths due to dengue, …
Meerut: With zero cases of dengue having been reported in the last three days starting Saturday, the vector-borne disease has settled at a five-year-high of 653. Doctors say that sporadic cases may continue to be reported but the dengue cases have relatively subsided due to the drop in temperature. Earlier, …
Although there is a nip in the air, but the cases of dengue and chikungnya are still being reported every day. As many as 10 dengue cases were confirmed today. The total number of patients affected with dengue this year has risen to 1,017. The Health Department has asked city …
Of the total 8,063 cases of dengue, 4,188 patients belonged to Delhi. Patients from other states who came to the city for treatment numbered 3,875, the report said. The number of dengue cases recorded till November 6 had stood at 7,358. At least 705 fresh cases of dengue have been …
Approaches used to early and accurately characterize epidemiologic patterns of disease incidence in a temporal and spatial series are becoming increasingly important. Cluster tests are generally designed for retrospective detection of epidemiologic anomalies in a temporal or space-time series. Timely identification of anomalies of disease or poisoning incidence during ongoing …
7 more dengue cases reported, total number of patients 112 Confusion was created due to delay in sending pathological samples of suspected patients, which actually raised doubts on the ‘unknown’ virus. Health department will send more samples to virology labs in Bhopal and Jabalpur to get clear picture and overcome …
Simply destroying mosquito eggs has proven not to be effective in the control of the menace. Hyderabad: Simply destroying mosquito eggs has proven not to be effective in the control of the menace; there is a need for spatiotemporal mapping to develop a model which will help identify, and target, …
More than half of the chikungunya cases in the country are suspected to be from Karnataka. According to National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme (NVBDCP), Karnataka has recorded around 25,800 clinically suspected cases of chikungunya out of 47,500 cases across the country. The state is followed by Gujarat (5,896) and …
BHOPAL: For the second year in a row, over 1,000 peoplehave tested positive for vector-borne diseases like chikungunya and dengue in the state capital. Health department steps to control the spread of deadly diseases are yet to show results, with police being called in at Hamidiahospital to control the large …
NEW DELHI: Once again malaria has broken the record of last four years. According to latest reports released by the anti-malaria headquarters of the South Delhi municipal corporation till November 4 altogether 552 cases of malaria have been reported while 423 cases were reported for the same period in 2016, …
Patiala: The authorities of the health department as well as Patiala municipal corporation have failed to curb the dengue menace in the district with the number of cases touching 1170 mark. The number has witnessed a rise only in last two weeks. The number of dengua cases reported till last …
