Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari threatens lives livelihoods appearing in the Telangana Today dated 13.05.2025" dated 29/05/2025. The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Telangana: Deepening pollution crisis in Godawari …
Many countries are moving toward eliminating malaria, among them Madagascar, Senegal and Zimbabwe. But a World Health Organization report warns that in other areas, progress has stalled. Malaria cases increased by more than 20 percent from 2015 to 2016 in eight African countries — including Rwanda, Nigeria and the Democratic …
The World Malaria Report 2017 draws on data from 91 countries and areas with ongoing malaria transmission. The information is supplemented by data from national household surveys and databases held by other organizations.
KOLKATA: Platelet drop remains a constant threat as the number of dengue cases refuses to slidein and around Kolkata. Unlike previous years, doctors this year have been recommending platelet transfusion once the count drops to 20,000 since the dengue strain has turned more virulent, triggering frequent multi-organ failure. Former cricketer …
At least 21 deaths due to dengue were reported last year from various city hospitals, including nine at AIIMS, though the official figure of the civic bodies was 10. Seventeen deaths, suspected to be due to malaria, were also reported by civic bodies last year. At least 347 cases of …
Meerut: With zero cases of dengue having been reported in the last three days starting Saturday, the vector-borne disease has settled at a five-year-high of 653. Doctors say that sporadic cases may continue to be reported but the dengue cases have relatively subsided due to the drop in temperature. Earlier, …
Blowflies and houseflies are mechanical vectors inhabiting synanthropic environments around the world. They feed and breed in fecal and decaying organic matter, but the microbiome they harbour and transport is largely uncharacterized. We sampled 116 individual houseflies and blowflies from varying habitats on three continents and subjected them to high-coverage, …
KOLKATA: The dip in temperature may finally rid Kolkata of dengue but the scare has already prompted at least two city neighbourhoods, which have seen multiple infections or deaths, to band together and form "resistance groups" or "RG parties", the type of which we used to see in the 1980s …
Researchers studying African bonobo populations in the Congo Basin say they’ve discovered a new malaria parasite that’s specific to their geography and species – with potential implications for human health, because the newly discovered Plasmodium lomamiensis is closely related to a parasite known to cause malaria infections in people. Dr. …
Luanda — MORE than 1 200 people have died of malaria since the outbreak of the mosquito-borne disease in Angola this year. Most of the victims are children under five years of age, mostly in the central Huambo Province. Clementino Sacanombo, Huambo malaria programme supervisor, said the province was experiencing …
Abuja — The National Malaria Eradication Programme (NMEP) has lamented that despite the reduction in malaria prevalence in the country, it said malaria remains a leading cause of death of under-five children, saying about 30 children die every hour. The National Coordinator, NMEP, Dr. Audu Muhammed, revealed this in Abuja …
Although there is a nip in the air, but the cases of dengue and chikungnya are still being reported every day. As many as 10 dengue cases were confirmed today. The total number of patients affected with dengue this year has risen to 1,017. The Health Department has asked city …
Hospital says it did not overcharge The Haryana government on Tuesday ordered a probe into an allegation that Fortis Hospital in Gurgaon had overcharged the family of a seven-year-old girl, who died of dengue, hours after the Centre asked it to initiate an urgent inquiry. The private hospital denied the …
Most respondents felt there was a nexus between labs, doctors Close on the heels of Gurugram-based Fortis Memorial Research Institute (FMRI) allegedly overcharging the family of a seven-year-old dengue patient who died recently at the hospital, a survey conducted about the common man’s perception on “corruption” in the healthcare system …
Although significant progress has been made in reducing malaria transmission globally in recent years, a large number of people remain at risk and hence the gains made are fragile. Funding lags well behind amounts needed to protect all those at risk and ongoing contributions from major donors, such as the …
AHMEDABAD: Even as the temperatures have begun to dip and humidity levels falling, there is no respite from vector-borne infections. The cases of dengue have shown a sharp rise. According to the weekly health report released by Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC)'s health department, some 71 cases of dengue were reported …
NEW DELHI: Fortis Memorial Research Institute (Gurgaon) charged the family of a seven-year-old dengue patient almost Rs 16 lakh for 15 days in the ICU, but the girl died while being shifted from Fortis to Rockland Hospital. Union health minister J P Nadda on Monday assured the bereaved family of …
What makes our city not so nice after all? We have our roots here but often choose to live elsewhere. The compulsions to do that may be legitimate but at the end of the day, it's the city we escape from. For others, there is no choice. We must live …
KOLKATA: At least two pregnant women who were down with dengue have died within a fortnight. Jesmita Haldar, a 27-year-old homemaker who had slipped into a coma after delivering a stillborn, succumbed to dengue last Friday while 24-year-old Purnima Biswas of Prince Ghulam Mohammad Shah Road died on November 3. …
KOLKATA: Far from relenting, the dengue menace is spreading its tentacles in south-east Kolkata having its epicenter in areas under borough X. The Kolkata Municipal Corporation health department is sending more personnel trained in vector control activities to the troubled borough X areas which include Golf Green, Anwar Shah Road, …
NAIROBI (Xinhua) -- Kenya plans to adopt the World Health Organization (WHO) pneumonia guidelines in order to reduce child mortality. Director of Medical Services at the Ministry of Health Jackson Kioko told a health forum in Nairobi Friday that the guidelines require the use of amoxicillin dispersible tablets for treatment …
