Recent extreme temperatures that are commonly followed by floods can largely be attributed to climatic warming

With nearly 70% of malaria cases being reported from the slums and South Kanpur localities, the medical health and family welfare department has decided to take comprehensive anti-malaria measures

The annoying bites of mosquitoes that we so often tend to ignore have accounted for over nearly 500 deaths in the last four years in Assam.

There has been an alarming rise in dengue cases in the State. Three children died of the vector-borne disease . One died at Maddur in Mandya district and the other two died in Birur.

PANAJI: No deaths from any of the four vector-borne diseases have been reported in the past year, but health department officials are seized by a new worry, as the number of dengue cases has risen

Scientists have discovered three new drug-resistant strains of the malaria parasite in Cambodia, which they say have spread to other parts of Asia as well.

Sri Lanka will join the rest of the world to mark the World Malaria Day that falls on today, April 25, 2013.

About 1.3 billion people in South-East Asia continue to be at risk of malaria, even though substantial progress has been made in controlling the disease.

Health Department officials have reported 38 confirmed cases of dengue fever in the district.

This World Malaria Day, April 25, the State has a reason to smile, as the number of malaria cases has gone down drastically in the last three years with no deaths being reported since 2011.