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2.28 lakh bitten by malaria bug
AMIT GUPTA
Ranchi, March 5: Official facts and figures paint a far from healthy picture of Jharkhand.
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- 06/03/2010
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- Telegraph (Ranchi)
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Climate change and extreme weather events mortality in India
This document contains the presentation by Rais Akhtar on Climate change and extreme weather events mortality in India, presented at National climate research conference, IIT Delhi, March 5-6, 2010.
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- Mar 2010
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- Jawaharlal Nehru University
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MCD ready to combat dengue
The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) today showed its readiness to combat the spread of dengue during the Commonwealth Games in the Capital.
The municipal officers said that they have started the exercise with a workshop on the sensitisation of municipal councillors about the dengue, chikunguniya and malaria.
- Date:
- 04/03/2010
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- Tribune (New Delhi)
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Bid to check vector-borne diseases ahead of the Games
NEW DELHI: The Municipal Corporation of Delhi has set up 22 surveillance posts to combat the spread of dengue, chikungunya and malaria ahead of the Commonwealth Games in the Capital.
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- 04/03/2010
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- Hindu (New Delhi)
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Eco-bio-social determinants of dengue vector breeding: a multicountry study in urban and periurban Asia
The objective was to study dengue vector breeding patterns under a variety of conditions in public and private spaces; to explore the ecological, biological and social (eco-bio-social) factors involved in vector breeding and viral transmission, and to define the main implications for vector control.
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- Mar 2010
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- Bulletin of the World Health Organization Vol: 88 Issue: 3 pp: 173-184
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Flight to finish: New tool against dengue
A mosquito can’t bite if it cannot fly. This is the theory that will guide the world’s latest fight against dengue. American and British researchers have jointly developed a strain of flightless mosquito that they believe will help curb the spread of dengue. And here’s how. The dengue virus is spread through the bite of infected female Aedes aegypti mosquito.
- Date:
- 24/02/2010
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- Times Of India (New Delhi)
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Clarification needed on bio-safety of GM mosquitoes
S.Elango , Director of Public Health (right), having a word with S.S.Vasan, head of Public Health, Oxitec Limited, U.K., at the Asian Biosafety Training meeting in Madurai on Monday. Madama Bouare , African scientist (centre), is in the picture.
- Date:
- 23/02/2010
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- Hindu (Chennai)
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“Clarification needed on bio-safety of GM mosquitoes”
Director of Public Health S. Elango on Monday said clarifications were needed on the bio-safety of Genetically Modified (GM) mosquitoes being developed by researchers globally to combat vector-borne diseases such as malaria, chikungunya and dengue.
He said here that public health administrators and governments could not take any chances with GM technology unless safety was assured.
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- 23/02/2010
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- Hindu (New Delhi)
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Malaria situation in Mizoram alarming
Aizawl, Feb 19: National Vector Borne Diseases Control Programme (NVBDCP) Director PL Joshi today termed the situation in Mizoram in regards to malaria as "alarming and emergency situation."
- Date:
- 20/02/2010
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- Sentinel (Guwahati)
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Need for separate campaign to check encephalitis
There are separate national programmes to eliminate malaria and filaria. This despite the fact that both the diseases are caused by the same vector and can be easily covered under the national vector borne diseases control programme. Citing this example, health activists in eastern Uttar Pradesh reiterated their demand for a separate campaign to eliminate encephalitis.
- Date:
- 17/02/2010
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- Times of India (Lucknow)
