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 …
LUCKNOW: The tough stand taken by the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court on prevention and treatment of dengue has exposed how successive governments in the state have neglected public health. A glaring example of government apathy is the malaria prevention division of the health department. The division's job …
Traditionally, epidemiologists have considered electrification to be a positive factor. In fact, electrification and plumbing are typical initiatives that represent the integration of an isolated population into modern society, ensuring the control of pathogens and promoting public health. Nonetheless, electrification is always accompanied by night lighting that attracts insect vectors …
IT WAS not that the gorillas and the chimpanzees were fighting for a title—but still the chimpanzees lost. Chimpanzees were believed to be the reservoir of Plasmodium falciparum, the drug-resistant parasite responsible for malaria. A research team, now, claims malaria passed on to humans from gorillas. Microbiologists from University of …
Present elimination strategies are based on recommendations derived during the Global Malaria Eradication Program of the 1960s. However, many countries considering elimination nowadays have high intrinsic transmission potential and, without the support of a regional campaign, have to deal with the constant threat of imported cases of the disease, emphasising …
NEW DELHI: The Delhi Government has sanctioned an additional Rs.35 crore to the Municipal Corporation of Delhi for intensifying anti-larval and anti-vector measures to effectively control diseases like dengue, chikungunya and malaria in the Capital. This was decided at a high-level meeting attended by Health Minister Prof. Kiran Walia and …
The preventive and social medicine (PSM) department at Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Hospital (LTMH), in collaboration with the Centre for Study of Social Change (CSSC), has developed a model to control the spread of malaria. Inspired by an old practice, the model will be tested in Bharat Nagar in Bandra (East) …
Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) today launched six audio and video mobile vans to create awareness against dengue and malaria. Mayor, Mr Sovan Chatterjee said the civic authorities will allot special funds in next budget for to create health awareness. The vans will cover the 141 wards of the KMC area …
Although the spread of drug resistance and the influence of climate change on malaria are most often considered separately, these factors have the potential to interact through altered levels of transmission intensity. The influence of transmission intensity on the evolution of drug resistance has been addressed in theoretical studies from …
An 11 year old Class V student of Catholic School, Canchipur, Baby Lalrilu was sick and hospitalised at the Regional Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS) Hospital here on June 27 following a complaint of high fever and unconsciousness. But unfortunately Baby Lalrilu, the only daughter of a young Rongmei widow …
2 African Strains Found To Have Mutated Into Genetically Distinct Species London: In a startling discovery that has implications for combating malaria, scientists have found that two strains of Africa
The reputed medical journal, The Lancet, recently published an article on malaria-related deaths in India, which were estimated to be two lakh per year, and 13 times higher than the estimate of the World Health Organisation. WHO representatives contested these numbers and the methodology behind them, but conceded that their …
New Delhi: Malaria kills 13 times more Indians than what was estimated till date. According to the World Health Organization, the vector-borne disease kills around 15,000 Indians annually. But a new study published in British medical journal
Badly hit population: Majority of deaths occured in rural areas and in people who do not seek medical assistance. How many people die of malaria every year in India? According to the estimates of World Health Organisation (WHO), 15,000 (10,000 adults and 5,000 children) malarial deaths occur each year. But …
New Delhi, Oct. 20: New research has suggested that malaria kills about 205,000 people in India each year, amplifying suspicions that the national malaria programme and the World Health Organisation are vastly underestimating India
National malaria death rates are difficult to assess because reliably diagnosed malaria is likely to be cured, and deaths in the community from undiagnosed malaria could be misattributed in retrospective enquiries to other febrile causes of death, or vice-versa. The authors aimed to estimate plausible ranges of malaria mortality in …
College students will be the new warriors in the war against malaria. The Haffkine Institute of Training, Research and Testing (HITRT) will engage college students in collecting dead mosquito samples to zero down on the type and origin of the mosquitoes in the city, to fight the mosquito menace effectively. …
Malaria cases continue to rise in the western districts of the state. The number of cases recorded in three western districts was around 11,000 till last week, half of the total cases of 22,000 reported so far in the state. "This year the number of cases reported in the state …
