Vector Borne Diseases

Alarmed Union health ministry tells city government to contain disease before the Games even as Delhi minister and MCD officials trade blame Risha Chitlangia | TNN Delhi may be in the throes of a dengue outbreak but the worst is yet to come.

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While grappling with corruption allegations and never-ending construction deadlines, the Commonwealth Games Organising Committee and the Delhi government are now battling with the dengue crisis at many Games sites.

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The Union health ministry on Tuesday said that some Indian missions abroad have expressed concern over the dengue “epidemic” in Delhi before the Commonwealth Games and have asked the government to take adequate steps to control and check it. Contending that widespread digging due to Games-related construction in the capital and the heavy rains have led to the outbreak of dengue, health secretary

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‘Hospitals are well prepared for detection and treatment' The Capital reported 74 new dengue cases on Tuesday, taking the total number of cases to 916 so far this season.

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New Method Uses Infection As Part Of Treatment, Combining Antibiotics With Natural Exposure Berlin: A team of German scientists may have discovered a “needle-free” malaria vaccine by combining antibiotics with malaria-infected mosquitoes — effectively using mosquitoes themselves as “syringes”. If successful, the new treatment could dramatically reduce the nearly one million deaths caused f

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After a death of a Chandigarh resident of swine flu at Fortis Hospital in Mohali on Friday, a Mumbai resident tested positive for dengue at Fortis Hospital on Monday. Gopal Krishan, in his late 30s, a former Navy official, along with his family had come to his in-laws' place in Kharar on August 24 and was admitted to the hospital recently with fever and dengue-like symptoms. The blood test r

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Teena Thacker After wreaking havoc in 2006, when the country reported a record number of dengue cases, the disease is back to haunt the city this year. However, experts are of the opinion that the severity of the virus will be much less now as immunity levels have gone up significantly. There are four distinct, but closely related viruses, that cause dengue.

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New Delhi: AIIMS, the country’s premier medical institute, seems to have become a hub of dengue cases. On Sunday, the 25-year-old son of an AIIMS staffer died of the disease while family members of many doctors living on campus have been diagnosed positive.

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BHUBANESWAR: It seems the disease surveillance system in Orissa is not working effectively. The recurrence of diseases like cholera, diarrhoea every year testifies to it. The resurgence of dengue in the tribal areas, when the State is recuperating slowly from the ‘second wave’ of swine flu, confirms it emphatically. Data available with the Health Department shows that the morbidity due to

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