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 …
New York’s governor has declared a public health emergency for the state because of the severity of the flu season. Gov Andrew M. Cuomo made the announcement Saturday. His executive order suspends for the next month the state law that limits the authority of pharmacists to administer immunizing agents only …
Firms, foreign and Indian, reiterate they follow the rules fully earlier, SC had rapped govt for gaps in law and enforcement, including on compensation Despite courts slamming the authorities over the monitoring of clinical trials in the country, the number of deaths caused by the adverse impact of drugs in …
Hundreds of fowls that died in a Dharke-based a chicken firm over the past one week are learnt to have died due to bird flu outbreak. The confirmation of bird flu came from a test report conducted by Central Veterinary Lab in Kathmandu on samples collected from Laxmi Pokharel’s chicken …
At least 50 Great Cormorant migrant birds (file photo) have been found dead inside the Kaziranga National Park (KNP), a world heritage site, following which a probe has been ordered. The birds were found dead at Borbeel in Bagori range on 28 November. “We are concerned at the death of …
New Delhi:The city has reported 71 cases of swine flu this year, the health department confirmed on Monday. No deaths have been reported though, said a senior official. He said 22 hospitals — 17 government and five private — have been indentified for control and management of the disease. “All …
Dual-use research of concern (DURC) is the research that is intended for legitimate benefits, but also carries a risk of being misused. In this article, the work related to regulation of dual-use influenza virus research involving genetic engineering of the subtype H5N1 has been compared with the research involving regulation …
Sultanate of Oman became the first country to ban poultry products from India since avian influenza commonly known as bird flu was reported a week ago from Bangalore. This is the second time this year that Oman has banned import of eggs from India. According to P Nallathambi, president, Tamil …
The ever-busy Central Poultry Development Organisation (CPDO) and Training Institute will now be without any activity as its entire stock of poultry has been culled. The Institute will now have to wait for at least three months to renew its activities. An uneasy calm prevails at CPDO as the Avian …
Samples of blood, bird droppings collected from four places With the outbreak of avian influenza at the Central Poultry Development Organisation at Hesaraghatta, near Bangalore, the authorities on Sunday launched extensive surveillance in and around four places in Mandya that attract migratory birds. The places Officials of the departments of …
Kerala has banned entry of poultry from other states following detection of avian influenza (bird flu) in a government farm at Hessarghatta, outside Bangalore. Following an intimation in this regard from the Karnataka, the state Animal Husbandry Department banned movement of poultry from Karnataka and Tamil Nadu since last evening, …
As many as 120 chicken died on Sunday and 86 chicken and 17 ducks on Saturday Over 220 chicken and ducks have died at Central Poultry Development Organisation (CPDO) at Hesaragatta here, where avian influenza (H5N1) had claimed over 3,600 turkeys over the last fortnight. “Mortality among the chicken and …
Pakistan has become the first South Asian country to introduce a new against pneumonia. India, in contrast, has only partially introduced one of two available vaccines under a national programme, though it is available in the market. This is despite WHO having attributed India with the highest child mortality rate …
The H5N1 avian flu virus has been detected in the city of Zhanjiang in South China's Guangdong province, experts confirmed on Tuesday. The virus has infected 14,050 ducks and killed 6,300 of them since Sept 11, when symptoms were first reported, a Ministry of Agriculture official said. After the epidemic …
Mumbai: The count of positive cases for H1N1 influenza virus touched 200 in Mumbai on Sunday. While, experts don’t term it as a “resurgence”, civic officials say 138 cases were detected in July. In the last four months, 62 positive cases were reported. However, only six cases were reported throughout …
Health officials investigating an unexplained disease outbreak that has killed more than 50 children in Cambodia say they have detected the presence of a virus that causes hand, foot and mouth disease. But they stressed the investigations were ongoing, with other illnesses, including dengue, also associated with some of the …
A global study mapping human diseases that come from animals like tuberculosis, AIDS, bird flu or Rift Valley fever has found that just 13 such diseases are responsible for 2.4 billion cases of human illness and 2.2 million deaths a year. The vast majority of infections and deaths from so-called …
It might be possible for human-tohuman airborne transmissible avian H5N1 influenza viruses to evolve in nature, new research has found. The findings, from research led by Professor Derek Smith and Dr Colin Russell at the University of Cambridge, were published on June 22 in the journal Science. Currently, avian H5N1 …
The government is planning to make cancer a “notifiable disease”, which will mean every case will have to be reported. Till now infectious diseases like polio, plague, H1N1, H5N1 (bird flu) figure in the list of notifiable diseases. Recently, tuberculosis was made a notifiable disease. Cancer would become the first …
Even as some States have reported outbreak of A(H1N1) influenza, the Centre has said that since the virus is circulating in the community, border control measures, such as entry screening at airports, ports and railway and bus stations, is not essential. The influenza has been reported from Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, …
Imperfect global biosafety standards and a threat to researchers’ motivations from biosecurity concerns are among the significant risks in current flu research. (Editorial)
