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 quality of drinking water supplied in many parts of the district has become a cause of concern with the possibilities of a rise in water-borne diseases from the affected areas. Latest health department reports indicated that even the water samples from Aurangabad taluka were contaminated. The latest drinking water …
A leading microbiologist has warned of the increasing threat that killer fungi poses to humans and the environment. New figures show that fungal diseases cause hundreds of thousands of deaths annually, following severe respiratory illness and infections of the blood stream. And now an expert has warned that fungi kill …
The Lancet presents the most recent update on the global, regional, and national causes of death. Against a backdrop of increased global improvements in life-expectancy, death rates for some causes – including drug use and liver cancer – continue to rise. Up-to-date evidence on levels and trends for age-sex-specific all-cause …
The World Malaria Report 2014 summarizes information received from malaria-endemic countries and other sources, and updates the analyses presented in the 2013 report. It assesses global and regional malaria trends, highlights progress towards global targets, and describes opportunities and challenges in controlling and eliminating the disease.
The city may be fretting over a dengue outburst but malaria is not too far behind. This season it has claimed nine lives, which is one less from the year's official dengue casualty . It has also affected at least 10 times the number of people attacked by the dengue …
NAGPUR: We may think of slums are unhygienic places but city's tony areas do worse in some respect. As city reels under an outbreak of dreaded dengue, a surprising fact has emerged that all the cases have come from relatively better off areas of the city. As the suspected dengue …
Believe it or not, as many as 3.72 lakh people die every year globally by drowning. This death toll is over half that of malaria, says World Health Organisation's first Global report on 'Drowning: preventing a leading killer'. But unlike malaria, there are no broad prevention efforts that results into …
The evolution of resistance to antimicrobial chemotherapy is a major and growing cause of human mortality and morbidity. Comparatively little attention has been paid to how different patient treatment strategies shape the evolution of resistance. In particular, it is not clear whether treating individual patients aggressively with high drug dosages …
BMC Favours Arresting People To Stem Disease The rising number of dengue cases across the city has prompted civic authorities to push for the arrest of people whose homes are breeding spots of the dengue-spreading Aedes aegypti, ‘Tiger’, mosquito. This was announced by the BMC’s director of medical education Dr …
Failed To Clean Breeding Spots On Premises Following a spurt in dengue cases, the BMC has prosecuted over 12,500 housing societies and owners of bungalows, apartments and shopping malls for not taking adequate measures to control mosquito breeding on the premises. It has collected Rs 19.61 lakh from private and …
PANAJI: The directorate of health services has succeeded in controlling spread of malaria to some extent, but the mosquitoes are still a threat with as many as 121 cases of dengue reported till August this year. Recorded over eight months, this figure is comparatively lesser than last year's 198 cases, …
Till now, 98 cases of dengue and 53 cases of malaria have been reported in the national capital this year. There has been a significant increase in the number of dengue cases, with about 30 per cent reported in the last week itself. A total of 98 cases had been …
Researchers have discovered that people have formed different defences against malaria depending on what part of the world they live in, according to a ground- breaking study. The study, which involved almost 12,000 people, was conducted over 10 years, across 11 different countries, looked for specific mutations in genes that …
Most of us have lost count of the number of times we have visited a doctor or health facility. It is something we take for granted: nothing exceptional, simply routine. Yet in our 21st-century world, 1 billion people have never seen a doctor or received quality health services. Furthermore, given …
Recently published prevalence estimates of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) in five Latin American countries—Bolivia, Cuba, Ecuador, Nicaragua, and Venezuela—could suggest a new direction for United States foreign policy in the region. (Editorial)
According to this new WHO report, climate change is expected to cause approximately 250 000 additional deaths per year between 2030 and 2050; 38 000 due to heat exposure in elderly people, 48 000 due to diarrhoea, 60 000 due to malaria, and 95 000 due to childhood undernutrition WHO …
The UN will formulate ambitious Sustainable Development Goals for 2030, including one for health. Feasible goals with some quantifiable, measurable targets can influence governments. We propose, as a quatitative health target, “Avoid in each country 40% of premature deaths (under-70 deaths that would be seen in the 2030 population at …
The Similipal Tiger Reserve (STR) in Mayurbhanj district is scourged by malaria with 30% of its staff down with the fever. This has hit the routine watch and ward, including foot patrolling, in the sanctuary, official sources said. The STR field director Anup Nayak said the sanctuary has 200 field …
An 84-year-old woman from Kothrud succumbed to infection from dengue and malaria at a private hospital in the city on Friday night, taking the death toll to four so far this year. The victim, Leela Pathkar, a resident of Paud Road in Kothrud, died of multiple organ failure around 8.30pm.“Pathkar …
According to the climate change experts, it is only a matter of time. The city of Surat (population 4.5 million), in the state of Gujarat on the west coast of India, will soon be exposed to recurrent flooding, with the risk of malaria and dengue fever epidemics in its aftermath. …
