Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari threatens lives livelihoods appearing in the Telangana Today dated 13.05.2025" dated 29/05/2025. The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari …
Sewan grasslands occupy areas with low rainfall. They were spread across Bikaner, Jaisalmer and Barmer districts, but can no longer be seen now. Irrigation became possible with water from the Indira Gandhi Canal, and the grasslands were transformed into agricultural fields. But flood irrigation has also increased soil moisture, threatening …
Babies infected at birth with a common sexually transmitted bacterium Ureaplasma urealyticum , are more likely to develop asthma in later life. More than 50 per cent women in western countries are found to be asthmatic. Rita DeLollis at the Winchester and Lawrence Hospital, Massachusetts, USA, screened throats of 132 …
a pathogen generally found in domestic chicken is suspected to have caused large scale deaths of wild penguins in a particular part of Antarctica. Infectious bursal disease virus ( ibdv )
Of the estimated 52 million deaths worldwide in 1996, about 40 million were in the developing world, including nearly nine million in the least developed countries. Of the 40 million deaths in the developing world in 1996, more than 17 million were due to infectious and parasitic diseases. Studies indicate …
We determined the association between the use of the glycopeptide antibiotic avoparcin as a growth promoter and the occurrence of Enterococcus faecium (VREF) with high-level resistance to vancomycin (MIC ≥ 64 μg ml−1) on poultry and pig farms. The investigations were conducted as retrospective cohort studies, where groups of farms …
the theme of the World Health Organization's (who) annual report the World Health Report (WHR) 1997, confronts chronic conditions like cancer, mental disorders, metabolic and hormonal imbalances, musculo-skeletal conditions - most of them preventable, but not easily curable. In view of the fact that in the last decades of this …
from mad cow to mad fish. It is not the disease by another name; instead it is a "brand new disease' according to Donald Low, head of the department of microbiology at Mount Sinai and Princess Margret hospitals in Ottawa. This is passed on to the humans from the fish …
The re-emergence of infectious diseases has become a matter of global concern; about 17 million of the 52 million deaths last year were classified as owing to infectious diseases. Changes in lifestyle and behaviour is an important factor in the emergence of some infectious diseases, particularly those that are sexually …
A NEW route used by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) to sneak into the body has been tracked by scientists. A series of studies on rhesus monkeys has suggested that the virus that causes AIDS can infect individuals through the mouth, and this includes even those persons who do not …
THE recently published 1996 The 1996 World Health Organization infectious (WHO) report urges all the epidemics countries to target health care facilities as a primary governmental and international concern, particularly in the light of an onslaught by various diseases plaguing our globe today. According to the WHO report, over the …
WITH the fallout of the mad cow disease in Britain, attention has been drawn to its human counterpart - Crc utzfeldt- Jakob disease (CM). Reported simultaneously in 1921 by two independent scientists, Hans G Creutzfeldt and Alfons Jakob, the disease affects the brain. Normally the disease strikes those who are …
DISEASES Once considered eradicated seem to have made an alarming reappearance across countries in Europe, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). At a recent conference organised by the world health body in London, UK, its officials have sought a us $20 million assistance to control cholera, diptheria and sexually …
Using S-I-R and S-E-I-R models, it was possible to simulate two Ebola outbreaks: the 1976 outbreak in Yambuku, Zaire and the 1995 outbreak in Kikwit, Zaire. The dynamics of these models are determined by the per-capita death rate of infected individuals and the per-capita effective contact rate of an individual …
AMONG infectious diseases, tuberculosis (TB) stands out as the principal exterminator of humans, with an estimated 8 million new cases and 2.9 million deaths occuring worldwide annually. The situation is particularly alarming in developing countries, where 7 per cent of all deaths, and 19 per cent of deaths of adults …
Scientists at the Indian Institute 01 Chemical Biology OICB), Calcutt are grappling wil , killer: Laishmania Donovani. It is protozoa that derives its name from its discoverers, Laishman an Donovani who discovered the pathogen at the turn of the centu !I soon after Ronald Ross isolated the malaria parasite. Just …
BARELEY have the memories of the deadly Eloba virus which took Zaire by storm Early this year faded from the mind of mme" community that yet opewrious killer. disease has Amd in the backlands of Nicaragua erupted in Achuapa, a farming north-west of Managua about a ago and has since …
The plague mystery still foxes the high level technical advisory committee constituted by the Centre. In its 7 page interim report, the committee headed by V Ramalingaswamy, former director general of health, has stated that the isolating of Yersinia pestis from humans through DNA fingerprinting has confirmed that it was …
A committee of transfusion medicine experts has suggested that accepting blood from professional donors be immediately suspended because of the risk of infection. This has put the Union health ministry in a fix because there is a major shortage of blood at the blood banks and more than half of …
Scientists at Abbott laboratories, Illinois, have found a new way to detect the most common sexually transmitted infectious bacterium, Chlamydia trachomatis, which can cause pelvic inflammation and even infertility (Lancet Press Release, January 25, 1995). The test, known as the ligase chain reaction, detects the bacterium in a urine sample …
