Report of the Committee formed by the government of Uttar Pradesh in Original Application No. 116 of 2014 in the matter of Meera Shukla Vs MC, Gorakhpur & Others. In compliance with the orders of the National Green Tribunal (NGT), Principal Bench, New Delhi, the government of Uttar Pradesh constituted …
A drug used for the treatment of acne offers hope to patients of Japanese encephalitis, a viral disease with no specific treatment and a high mortality rate. The dreaded disease claimed 26 lives in the state last year. A study, conducted at the National Brain Research Centre in Manesar, Haryana, …
The objective of this study was to assess the field-test version of the new WHO Japanese encephalitis (JE) surveillance standards. The researchers applied the clinical case definition of acute encephalitis syndrome (AES), laboratory diagnostic criteria and case classifications to patients with suspected central nervous system (CNS) infections in southern Viet …
Gorakhpur and neighbouring districts in Uttar Pradesh are witnessing acute encephalitis syndrome. Caused by a virus, it can spread easily through food and water. The virus can affect all the organs of the body. k p kushwaha, senior paediatrician, Baba Raghav Das Medical College, Nehru Hospital, Gorakhpur, speaks to vibha …
The mystery fever hit Uttar Pradesh 20 years ago. It was linked to viruses like Nipah, Chandipura, West Nile and JE. The JE virus was the most accepted causal agent even though the authorities failed to find the virus in the samples collected. In Saharanpur, out of 99 cases of …
The Assam health department has sounded a health alert after 74 people died of Japanese encephalitis. At least 254 have been affected by the mosquito-borne disease in the past two weeks. The worst affected districts in the state are Dibrugarh, Sibsagar, Lakhimpur and Golaghat, says J M Bora, joint director …
A degraded environment brings with it a set of health problems - some new and some, which have posed a challenge over the years. Presenting Body Burden, a compilation of reports from Down to Earth on the health impacts of environment pollution in India.
OUT of the 230 people who succumbed to Japanese encephalitis (JE) in Gorakhpur this year, only five have received the promised compensation, which was distributed under instructions from Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mulayam Singh Yadav. Initially, eligibility criteria for the compensation weren't clarified; later people below the poverty line were …
The latest toll for Japanese Encephalitis (je) in eastern Uttar Pradesh (up) is now more than 1,000 and an average of 10 people are still dying everyday. The prime minister recently quizzed the Union minister for health and family welfare, Anbumani Ramadoss, on the subject, at a meeting held to …
In the rural heartland of eastern Uttar Pradesh (up), it is difficult to find that criminal called Japanese encephalitis (je). je is transmitted from infected pigs to humans by mosquitoes. So I decided to track down villages with piggeries (pig-keeping is a survival profession here). Travelling from Gorakhpur city to …
Japanese encephalitis (je) is caused by a flavivirus. (Flavus: Latin for yellow, because the most common virus in this family is the yellow fever virus; diseases like dengue are also caused by a flavivirus). The first recorded outbreak of JE was in Japan in the 1870s. Water birds are the …
epidemic in up: Japanese encephalitis (JE) has killed 153 people in eastern Uttar Pradesh, especially in Mahrajganj, Kushinagar, Gorakhpur, Sant Kabirnagar, Siddharthanagr and Deoria. As many as 530 suspected cases had been reported as of August 22, 2005. Authorities fear the situation can be controlled only after the monsoon season …
researchers at the National Institute of Immunology (nii), Delhi, have developed a vaccine against Japanese encephalitis (je), which will soon be available openly in India. Though the Central Research Institute (cri) in Kasauli also manufactures a je vaccine, the process it uses enables only a limited number to be produced. …
In his Independence Day speech from the Red Fort, Prime Minster Atal Bihari Vajpayee promised six hospitals akin to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (aiims) in backward states of the country. He made this announcement under the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojana, while admitting "people in underdeveloped states …
researchers in Sweden have linked the increase in the incidence of tick-borne encephalitis in Stockholm County to the global warming. The viral pathogen lives inside an insect, Ixodes ricinus and is transmitted to human beings when the insect bites them. The disease is characterised by symptoms such as high body …
The incidence of tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) in Sweden has substantially increased since the mid-1980s. During the same period the climate has become milder and ticks have become more abundant. We investigated whether there is a link between the change in climate and the increase in incidence of TBE. Since the …
at least 22 people have died in eastern Uttar Pradesh ( up ) in the past two months because of Japanese encephalitis, which is commonly known as brain fever. A mosquito borne, viral disease, it is prevalent in water logged areas of the state having poor sanitation. Despite the disease …
On the state of viral diseases in India: India faces a bleak scenario as far as viral diseases are concerned. There has been an alarming rise in the number of hiv cases. It could well be more than 10 million, though the World Health Organisation ( who ) estimates that …
a virus spread by infected pigs has claimed more than 85 lives in Malaysia. The virus, Japanese encephalitis ( je ), is carried by pigs and transmitted by mosquitoes. The Malaysian government has since ordered the immediate culling of around a million pigs. The disease first unleashed itself on the …
Over 70 people have died in Nepal due to viral encephalitis, commonly reffered to as brain fever, during the past one month. Majority of these deaths occured in southern parts of Nepal bordering the Indian states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. According to Nepal's department of epidemiology, Morang, Banke and …
Viral encepha-litis, a mosquito-borne disease, has taken its toll in southwestern parts of Nepal during this year's monsoon. The disease, which broke out in the first week of July, has already claimed 13 lives, eight of the victims being children, according to M Kidwai, chief of the Nepalganj zonal hospital. …
