Vector Borne Diseases

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding pollution of Godavari river, Telangana, 29/05/2025

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 …

Dengue touches 300 mark in Chandigarh

Fourteen new cases of dengue were reported from different parts of the city today, taking the count of patients to 300. However, there has been no report of death due to dengue. The UT Health Department on Friday had cancelled the holidays of all the doctors of the malaria department …

Lucknow crosses 2000th swine flu positive case tally

LUCKNOW: The number of positive swine flu cases reported in Lucknow on Sunday crossed the 2000th mark with 44 new cases of influenza A H1N1 tested positive on the day. The tally of positive swine flu patients since January until now in Lucknow alone reached 2008 cases and 13 positive …

Now, RAF team created to combat dengue, malaria

KOLKATA: The twin dengue deaths in Kasba last week has shaken the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) authorities into action. The KMC health department has created a Rapid Action Force (RAF) team for dengue prevention in Kasba and Ballygunge and some areas off Eastern Metropolitan Bypass, where dengue cases have been …

Dengue, swine flu deaths hit eye donation

JAIPUR: Hopes of a visual impaired persons having corneal blindness of getting vision dashed as another potential eye donor died of dengue. When eye bank officials reached 45-year-old person to retrieve his cornea after his death in Vallabh Nagar in Kota, the team had to return empty handed."Not everyone can …

Dengue knocks on Salt Lake doors

Kolkata: The dengue sting has reached the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation area that recorded its first death this year at Kestopur's Prafulla Kanan on Wednesday. Barely 5km from Madhugarh in South Dum Dum — the epicentre of dengue this season — the neighbourhood is perilously close to the Kolkata civic area. …

54% spike in dengue cases this year in Delhi, indicates MCD data

The capital has, however, seen a decline in cases of chikungunya this season, with 392 patients testing positive for the infection, a nine per cent drop as compared to the previous year. The capital has reported over 1,000 cases of patients testing positive for dengue this year — a 54% …

Climatic conditions decide how fast dengue spreads in various states: Study

HYDERABAD: A study by scientists from Indian Institute of Chemical Technology - Hyderabad, University of Liverpool and NIPER-Guwahati has for the first time highlighted the association between weather and Extrinsic Incubation Period (EIP) of dengue virus in the mosquito, for different states of India. Findings of the study have opened …

39 test positive for dengue in Hoshiarpur district

As many as 39 persons have tested positive for dengue in the district this year. Most of the cases have been reported from the city. So far, 630 suspected dengue patients have been admitted to hospitals in the district. Of them, 39 patients have tested positive for dengue. Of the …

Rising dengue cases in district put health authorities on toes

The rise in the number of dengue cases across the district due to the favourable conditions for the breeding of mosquitoes has become a cause of concern not only for local residents but also for the district health authorities. As many as 13 confirmed cases were reported in the district …

BBMP: 4,280 dengue cases since January, just 604 last year

BENGALURU: In its first admission that the number of dengue cases is spiralling threateningly, the BBMP on Wednesday said the city has reported 4,280 cases so far this year, a shocking seven-fold rise over the previous year. The rising number of dengue cases and the looming garbage crisis in the …

Hospitals erring on dengue, swine flu to face action: ADC

The district administration has asked the Health Department to take action against private hospitals if they fail to report the cases of swine flu, dengue, malaria and chikungunya. Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC) Ravinder Singh, at a meeting of health officials, asked them to write to the Medical Council of India …

Swine Flu Claims 23 Lives, Minister Blames God

Bhopal: Swine flu has claimed 23 lives in Madhya Pradesh since July and infected at least 115 people. More than 550 people are suspected to have contracted the disease, but MoS-health Sharad Jain had this to say on Wednesday: "Only God can be blamed for H1N1 deaths." What's worrying is …

Amid rising cases of dengue, mosquito breeding checkers in Delhi go on strike

Around 3,500 mosquito breeding checkers belonging to three municipal corporations of Delhi went on indefinite strike from Tuesday threatening to mar the civic bodies' humble attempts to control spike in cases of dengue, chikungunya and malaria. Corporations' boots on the ground, these workers, known as domestic breeding checkers (DBC), are …

Unsupervised primaquine for the treatment of Plasmodium vivax malaria relapses in southern Papua: A hospital-based cohort study

Primaquine is the only licensed drug for eradicating Plasmodium vivax hypnozoites and, therefore, preventing relapses of vivax malaria. It is a vital component of global malaria elimination efforts. Primaquine is efficacious when supervised in clinical trials, but its effectiveness in real-world settings is unknown. We aimed to determine whether unsupervised …

Spike in malaria, dengue cases

Ahmedabad: With 541 fresh cases of malaria, falciparum and chikungunya reported at Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation-run hospitals, urban health centres and government-run hospitals in the last week, there seems to be a rise in the number of malaria and dengue cases in the city. These cases include 456 fresh cases of …

Dengue on a rise, 110 cases reported in a week

The municipal corporations of Delhi reported at least 110 fresh cases of dengue in the last week, till August 26, taking the total count of affected people in the National Capital Region (NCR) to 945 — 435 in Delhi and 510 in the neighbouring states. The total number of cases …

State to declare dengue a ‘notifiable disease’

It makes reporting of every suspected case mandatory The State Medical and Health Department is going to be better equipped to deal with dengue as the government is all set to recognise it as a “notifiable disease” and publish it in the Extraordinary Gazette dated August 28. It makes the …

Pune: 4 ward office areas report 60% of dengue complaints

PUNE: Dengue virus is on the prowl mainly on the city fringes. Almost 60% of dengue cases reported this year have been detected among residents living in areas falling under the city's four ward offices. A total 147 out of the 248 patients, who tested positive for dengue, are from …

Three more swine flu cases in Kota, 57 since January

KOTA: The menace of swine flu and dengue has intensified in Kota. Three more patients have been tested positive for swine flu, taking the number of patients to 57 since January. Similarly, 149 people have been tested positive for dengue. Swine flu has claimed nine lives and dengue one life …

Dengue, H1N1 claims 4 lives in Bhopal

Bhopal: Two people have died due to dengue and two H1N1 patients succumbed after contact with deadly contagion, here on Tuesday. So far, this year over 40 people have tested positive for dengue. 18 cases of H1N1 have also been reported from Bhopal alone. "Dengue and H1N1 deaths have been …

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