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 …
Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Sunday launched a two-day vaccination campaign in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur district hit by a suspected encephalitis outbreak that has claimed the lives of at least 139 children. “The campaign has been launched to ensure 100 percent immunization of children in the affected areas,” Dr. Vardhan …
The Centre and Bihar Government will undertake a special vaccination drive immunising children in select districts of Bihar affected by the killer Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) on June 22 and 23 but concerns about its effectiveness will still remain as no vaccine has been developed so far to treat the …
44 children have died of the disease in Bihar over the past month The death of 44 children in six districts of Bihar over the past month due to encephalitis has prompted the Union Health Ministry to order 100-per-cent immunisation of children in select districts of the States affected by …
Acute encephalitis syndrome (AES) has spread in 30 villages under ten blocks of East Champaran district during the last one fortnight. According to the official sources, at least eight children of the district have died of the mystery disease and 24 children are undergoing treatment at SKMCH and Kejriwal hospital …
AES outbreak in Siliguri in 1996, traced to imported raspberry, may have led to ‘litchi theory’. Experts looking into the annual outbreak of a disease in parts of Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh and Muzaffarpur in Bihar, which has claimed the lives of many children, have told The Indian Express that …
Dreaded Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) that has taken toll of 25 children in the last fortnight in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur continue to baffle the experts who have for the first time noticed absence of basic warning signals of the disease such as high fever. The acute encephalitis syndrome is characterised by …
MUZAFFARPUR: One child died at SKMCH on Sunday and none at Kejriwal Hospital, although a total of 11 new cases of acute encephalitis syndrome (AES) have officially been reported including seven at Kejriwal Hospital and four at SKMCH during the last 24 hours. The total number of children affected by …
The death toll emerging from acute encephalitis syndrome (AES) rose to nine here on Thursday with five more children succumbing to the undiagnosed disease. The highest number of the season, i.e. 12 new patients were admitted for treatment including seven in Kejriwal Hospital and five in SK Medical College Hospital …
The recent finding that dengue fever has emerged in Houston, Texas—the first major United States city in modern times with autochthonous dengue—adds to previous evidence indicating that the Gulf Coast of the Southern US is under increasing threat from diseases thought previously to affect only developing countries.
One among three long-standing mystery diseases listed in Wikipedia is acute encephalitis syndrome (AES) in Muzaffarpur, Bihar. This disease has remained for over two decades without determining a cause for; hence it is called mystery disease. It occurs annual seasonal outbreaks during the months of April-July, affecting hundreds of children …
Acute encephalitis in eastern States such as Odisha and Jharkhand is caused by viruses of dengue and measles too, a latest study has revealed. The study, which was recently published in the Epidemiology and Infection Journal, has showed that though herpes simplex virus (HSV) was a dominant agent for acute …
The Health Department has notified the Haryana Epidemic Diseases, Malaria, Dengue, Chikungunya and Japanese Encephalitis (JE) regulations, 2014, that would remain in force up to March next year. A spokesman of the Health Department said here today that under these regulations, an inspecting officer could be a person appointed by …
DIBRUGARH, February 10: The Japanese Encephalitis Vaccination Campaign in the district was formally flagged off at the Deputy Commissioner’s office here today. The campaign aims to vaccinate adults and the National Health Mission (NHM) expects to cover more than 7, 35,000 persons during the nine days. A brief meeting was …
A mass drug administration program is to be undertaken in 40 districts of the country beginning February 8 under the Elephantiasis Control Program. The program would be conducted in two phases. In the first phase medicines would be administered in Bhojpur, Ilam, Jhapa, Morang, Okhaldhunga, Panchthar, Saptari, Siraha, Sunsari, Udayapur, …
The menace of encephalitis continues unabated in Eastern Uttar Pradesh, as three more children succumbed to the disease at the BRD Medical College Hospital, official sources said here today. With these, the toll has reached 640 this year. Sources in the office of Additional Director (Health) said all the three …
An estimated 4.21 crore population in the country may be at risk due to chemical contamination in drinking water, Government today said. Minister of State for Drinking Water and Sanitation Bharatsinh Solanki said that of the 16,90,870 rural habitations in India, 78,757 have at least one drinking water source affected …
A PGIMER study determining the prevalence of epilepsy and treatment gap in children and teenagers between the age group of one and 18 years has found that 22 per cent of the 3,684 children never received optimal treatment. Though the treatment gap is lower as compared to other cities in …
Climate change : Evidence, impact on vector borne diseases and remedial measures - A presentation by Ramesh C Dhiman at the 4th National Research Conference on Climate Change, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, October 26-27, 2013.
FORBESGANJ: Encephalitis has so far claimed three lives at Rahriya-Kosi tola of mahadalits in Simaraha police station area under Forbesganj subdivision in Araria district, triggering widespread concern in the area. Araria civil surgeon (CS) B K Thakur, however, said only two children died due to suspected viral encephalitis in the …
Encephalitis claimed four more lives while 17 new patients were admitted at BRD Medical College in last 24 hours. Bittu, 3, resident of Deoria, Sidhdharth, 2, Maharajganj, Parshuram, 8, Kushinagar and Hena, 7 and half year, Gorakhpur, succumbed to the fatal disease on Friday. However, 17 new encephalitis patients were …
