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 article reports projection of malaria by 2030 using A1B scenario of PRECIS model basically derived from HadRM3. Malaria scenario has been defined in terms of opening of months of malaria transmission based on minimum required temperature and relative humidity for baseline (1961–1990) and by 2030. Detailed analysis has been …
BHUBANESWAR: With the industrial belt of Angul district under the grip of a suspected dengue outbreak, the State Government has gone into the damage control mode. A team of experts from the Malaria and Vector Borne Diseases Control Programme led by Joint Director (Filaria) has been sent to the affected …
AGARTALA, July 31 – Tripura, one of the high endemic malaria zones in the country, has witnessed a sharp decline in the incidence of the ‘fatal’ disease. Incidence of malaria in the State has been reduced by 23 per cent when compared to 2009 while the dead toll stood at …
Agartala: Tripura has witnessed a 23 per cent drop in the malaria cases as compared to 2009, a top health official said on Sunday. Citing that four deaths had been recorded in hospitals this year, Director of Family Welfare and Preventive Medicine department Dr R K Dhar said there has …
Environment and Human Health gives a comprehensive review of the related literature in order to aid understanding of the (missing) link between the environment and health. Given the exhaustive literature on the subject the paper focuses on the water‐related and land‐related diseases namely in the fast growing and poor countries. …
Mumbai accounts for 55.3 per cent of malaria cases in Maharashtra, which in turn accounts for 13.4 per cent of malaria cases in the country. This was revealed in a written reply by Health Minister Suresh Shetty to a question by Sardar Tara Singh (BJP-Mulund) and others in the Assembly …
PANJIM: Porvorim Yuva Welfare Trust, through its Chairman Rohan Ashok Khaunte, commenced a plastic collection centre at Pundalik Nagar, Porvorim. Porvorim Yuva Welfare Trust has been trying its level best to drive out the plastic which has become a menace in Porvorim and at the same time have means of …
The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has said that breeding of mosquitoes has increased in the Capital due to the rains. Pools of stagnating water — which are conducive for the proliferation of mosquitoes — have been witnessed at many places, including the Jawaharlal Nehru University campus and IIT-Delhi, it …
AALO: An Aalo-based NGO, Aalo East Youth Welfare Association has leased out a plot of land measuring 3000 sq m at Gorak area under Torak village about 12 kms from here free of cost for the purpose of garbage disposal. The noble endeavour of the association has come as a …
KOCHI: With the communicable diseases like malaria spreading in the district, the authorities with the Health Department are planning a slew of measures targeting the migrant labourers here. Though the cases of malaria have been on the rise in the district since 2000, the authorities are unable to put in …
Five million people are at risk of cholera in drought-hit Ethiopia, where acute watery diarrhea has broken out in crowded, unsanitary conditions, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday. Cholera, an acute intestinal infection, causes watery diarrhea that can quickly lead to severe dehydration and death if treatment is …
Rainfall variability and associated remote sensing indices for vegetation are central to the development of early warning systems for epidemic malaria in arid regions. The considerable change in land-use practices resulting from increasing irrigation in recent decades raises important questions on concomitant change in malaria dynamics and its coupling to …
Invasive species can displace natives, and thus identifying the traits that make aliens successful is crucial for predicting and preventing biodiversity loss. Pathogens may play an important role in the invasive process, facilitating colonization of their hosts in new continents and islands. According to the Novel Weapon Hypothesis, colonizers may …
Key weapons in the fight against malaria, pyrethroid insecticides, are losing their edge. Over the past decade, billions of dollars have been spent on distributing long-lasting pyrethroid-treated bed nets and on indoor spraying. Focused in Africa, where most malaria deaths occur, these efforts have greatly reduced the disease's toll. But …
While malaria is raging in the city and adjacent districts, dengue fever has also started to make its presence felt. As per official data, there are 31 confirmed and 30 suspected cases of dengue in Hyderabad as of July 4. Sources in the health department say dengue test facilities are …
BACTERIA could be the new hero in the fight against the spread of malaria. Researchers at the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the US have demonstrated how two different bacteria can halt the growth of Plasmodium falciparum, the parasite that causes malaria. It is estimated that the …
After five persons died of malaria this month, corporators pulled up the Brihhanmumbai Municipal Corporation for lack of action to prevent the rise in malaria cases.
The number of persons affected by Dengue has gone up drastically in June in Dakshina Kannada district. On?June 23, two persons were found affected with Dengue. They are Soumya Sridhar from Moodabidri Kallbettupadau and Bijay from Shiradi Ichlampady in Puttur. Likewise three cases have been suspected in Athur Kemral, 10 …
