Influenza, or flu, and air pollution are significant public health risks that impact nations around the world with large economic consequences. The authors of this paper show that increased levels of air pollution significantly increase the rate of hospitalisation for people with flu. In addition, they find that protection afforded …
The flu slipped just below epidemic levels over the holidays but spread even farther across the USA and took the lives of six more children. Twenty-one children have been killed by the flu this season, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Almost all flu cases this season …
India banned imports on account of avian influenza, which WTO called 'unscientific' India plans to challenge a World Trade Organisation order that told New Delhi to remove curbs on poultry imports from the US, saying it's important to protect the industry that supports livelihood of millions of people in the …
The administration and the Animal Husbandry Department today breathed a sigh of relief as all 17 samples of dead and alive broilers sent to a Jalandhar-based laboratory tested negative for bird flu. The samples were sent for testing after about 352 broilers supplied from Haryana, which arrived at a Shimla …
GURGAON: The discovery of bird flu's highly infectious H5N1 virus strain in one of the samples taken from dead geese at Chandigarh's Sukhna lake has affected footfall at the Sultanpur National Park, with several bird watching and photography groups cancelling their trips because of the scare. An official at the …
Panic gripped the local meat market as about 300 broilers, supplied from Haryana, were found dead as the supply arrived at Shimla Municipal Corporation (SMC)-run slaughter house early today. As a precaution in view of the bird flu scare in adjoining states of Haryana and Punjab, the remaining lot of …
Intensive checking was conducted on Thursday in Theni and Kanyakumari districts, the entry points for vehicles coming to Tamil Nadu from Kerala, in view of the outbreak of bird flu in the neighbouring state. Theni district collector Dr K S Palanichamy inspected the checkpost at Lower Camp. He urged people …
Around 2 lakh ducks to be killed in the Kuttanad area Following the detection of bird flu virus in broiler chicken at a farm in Kumarakom, near Kottayam, a red alert has been sounded in Kerala’s Alappuzha, Pathanamthitta and Kottayam districts to restrict the movement of poultry and allied products. …
With the death of ducks being reported from the district, a team of the Indian Medical Association (IMA) visited Kuttanad on Tuesday to take stock of the situation. Led by IMA research cell convener Mohammed Shafi and Ratheesh of the Department of Community Medicine at the Thiruvananthapuram Medical College, the …
(Reuters) - Bird flu was found on a duck farm in England on Monday days after it was discovered in Dutch chickens, forcing authorities to destroy poultry and restrict exports, although it was not a strain known to be deadly to humans. Health officials said the outbreak may have been …
Covers All Screening Hands As parts of its emergency preparedness, the central government on Sunday started a three-day training programme for Ebola caregivers in the capital. Epidemiologists, microbiologists and nurses from the health facilities linked to all international airports--the first point of contact for any passenger coming from the affected …
For centuries, traditional Chinese medicine practitioners have given their patients honeysuckle, often in the form of tea, to help alleviate certain ailments. Now, researchers think that this age-old practice may have been on to something. A molecule within the plant has been found to directly target influenza, making it a …
Researchers with financial ties to flu drug companies more often reported positive findings in their studies of the treatments, a new analysis found. Seven of eight studies that analyzed previous research and whose researchers had financial ties to the drug industry were considered favorable to the flu treatments, including Roche …
BEIJING - Northeast China's Heilongjiang province has reported an outbreak of the H5N6 bird flu virus in poultry, the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) announced Monday. Over 20,000 geese at a farm in Harbin, the provincial capital, showed symptoms of avian flu and almost 18,000 died last month, according to the …
14 People Have Died Of Infection Till August 18 The mortality rate after swine flu infection continues to remain high though the number of cases has dropped. Fourteen of the 52 patients found with the infection in the state between January and August 18 died, states a state health department …
Epidemiological studies have shown adverse effects of short-term exposure to air pollution on respiratory disease outcomes; however, few studies examined this association on an hourly time scale. We evaluated the associations between hourly changes in air pollution and the risk of respiratory disease in the elderly, using the time of …
Indigenous people crossed from Peru into Brazil looking for help to combat illegal loggers and drug traffickers, researchers say Isolated native people likely to be fleeing attacks in Peru have turned up in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest where they made contact with the outside world, according to a video released by …
Researchers in Saudi Arabia said Tuesday they have found genetic traces of the dangerous Middle East respiratory virus, MERS-CoV, in the air of a barn that housed a sick camel. The study in mBio, the journal of the American Society for Microbiology, calls for further research to determine if the …
A U.S.-based Japanese scientist said Wednesday he has succeeded in engineering a version of the so-called swine flu virus that would be able to evade the human immune system. The research on the 2009 H1N1 virus at a high-security lab at the University of Wisconsin, Madison has not yet been …
Penta-valent-vaccine is a combination vaccine administered in a 3-dose schedule, offers protection against diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (DPT), hepatitis B, and Haemophilus influenza type B (Hib). The vaccine is widely recommended by WHO and GAVI as a substitute for prevailing vaccination practices against the above mentioned diseases and viruses. The vaccine …
Family, neighbours of flu victim under observation The situation arising out of widespread cases of fever in the district continues to be grim with a 4-year-old girl dying of fever on Sunday night. Angel, daughter of Kandathil Veetil Lithosh of Thekkumkara panchayat near Wadakkanchery, died at the Thrissur Medical College. …
