India topped countries in the South-East Asia region for the most number of malaria cases and deaths in 2022, according to this report published by the World Health Organization (WHO). Each year, WHO’s World malaria report provides a comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of trends in malaria control and elimination across …
The United Nations announced Monday that Somalia’s famine had spread to a sixth area within the country, with officials warning that 750,000 people could die in the next few months unless aid efforts were scaled up. Somalis lined up for food at a camp for the displaced south of Mogadishu. …
In an effort to check the spread of tuberculosis and its multi-drug resistant variants, the World Health Organisation and the Inter-national Pharmaceutical Federation (FIB) signed a joint statement on the role of pharmacists in TB care and control. The joint statement proposes a series of measures to help detect TB, …
GANDHINAGAR: The war on mosquitoes will be escalated in the city, with the state health department urging municipal corporations of Ahmedabad and Surat to intensify efforts to control the growing menace. The health department has asked the municipal corporations to ensure proper follow-up of individual malaria or dengue cases that …
Two deaths in less than 15 days in Pakkashahidan village of this district due to fever have left the villagers jittery even as malaria and viral fever have spread in the entire district. Veer Pal (18), a school-going girl, caught fever five days back and was getting treatment from a …
Ahmedabad: Lakes and small waterbodies are the next major concern for Ahmedabad’s mosquito control team. Over 20 water bodies — minor and major — dot the city. And health officials of the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) believe that with the rains ebbing, the water bodies are turning into major breeding …
The dry patch over Delhi is not the sign of withdrawal of monsoon. The rains are here to stay for this month. While Friday will continue to remain hot, Delhi may get respite from heat during the weekend. The soaring temperature, however, is conducive for the mosquitoes to breed and …
New Delhi: Seven new cases of dengue were reported in the city on Thursday, taking the total number of cases of the disease to 73 this season. According to MCD officials, maximum number of cases are being reported from Civil Lines and Karol Bagh zones. “On Thursday, we have received …
There is robust evidence of the efficacy of insecticide-treated mosquito nets (ITNs) in reducing malaria parasite prevalence, incidence, and all-cause child mortality from carefully conducted trials in sub-Saharan Africa across a range of transmission settings. Trials have shown ITNs to both significantly reduce Plasmodium falciparum prevalence among children under 5 …
AHMEDABAD: After the state lost the first round of chemical warfare against mosquitoes, the state health department has been advised to update its armoury. Initially, 'white' powder - chalk mixed with 5% of a substance called malathion - was used to arrest mosquito growth. But it proved to be ineffective. …
AHMEDABAD: The high rate of malaria cases in the state is a grim sign of the fight lost out to mosquitoes. Ahmedabad city has recorded 596 malaria cases in the latest weekly disease assessment of the state, the highest and has even overtaken Surat city which has recorded 543. Ahmedabad …
Malaria outbreak is increasing in some of the VDCs of lower Sorad area in Baitadi district. According to Kesharpur Primary Health Center, Melauli, 20 persons have been found suffering from Malaria. Chief at the Center Narayan Chand said they are compelled to refer the patients to other health centers due …
Rapidly emerging insecticide resistance is creating an urgent need for new active ingredients to control the adult mosquitoes that vector malaria. Biopesticides based on the spores of entomopathogenic fungi have shown considerable promise by causing very substantial mortality within 7–14 days of exposure. This mortality will generate excellent malaria control …
AHMEDABAD: The estate department of the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation carried out demolition and sealing drive in Thakkar Bapanagar, Madhavpura and Sarkhej areas of the city, to check mosquitoes and stop illegal constructions. The AMC sealed two construction sites, in Prahladnagar and Chainpur, as the contractors of these projects did not …
Already feeling the pinch of food insecurity, the agriculture sector of Pakistan has to face a loss of Rs 67 billion, as recent monsoon flooding has damaged standing crops in most of Lower Sindh. Well-placed sources told Business Recorder that the recent monsoon spell has caused huge loss to Kharif …
The makeshift camps hosting internally displaced persons (IDPs) of flood-affected areas of Thatta and Badin-the two hardest hit districts in the recently floods-have now been hit by the waterborne diseases and allergies due to contaminated water and unhygienic conditions. Both the districts have depicted a picture of a complete misery …
Gates Foundation invests $1 mn in wacky idea to treat mosquito-borne illness The plan is to treat malaria by sticking the patient into a microwave. OK, not the whole patient. Probably just an arm or a leg. And not just any microwave oven, but one set at very low power …
Ranchi/Jamshedpur, Aug. 21: Mosquitoes have proved to be a bigger menace than Maoists for security personnel engaged in anti-Naxalite operations in Saranda. As many as 127 jawans have been admitted to various hospitals with malaria symptoms, including Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) and Apollo Hospital in Ranchi, MGM Medical …
The malaria menace seems to finally have lost its bite. Against the 17,000 malaria cases recorded in the city till August last year, only 2,500 cases have been recorded this year. Health officials attribute this plunge to the decreasing number of mosquitoes in the city. “The number of mosquito has …
Releasing genetically modified, spermless male mosquitoes into the wild could in future help to prevent malaria transmission and reduce the chances of large outbreaks of the killer disease, British scientists said on Monday. Researchers from Imperial College London sterilized male mosquitoes by genetically modifying them to neutralize a gene required …
Malaria continues to remain a serious public health problem in many tropical and sub-tropical countries of the World with around 225 million cases and near one million deaths every year causing serious economic and man-day losses, and trapping countries in the vicious cycle of ill health and poverty. With early …
