PASIGHAT: The Pasighat district health department is going all out to control mosquito-transmitted diseases like malaria, dengue and recently detected Japanese Encephalitis (JE) in the district. Headed by the DMO Dr Kaling Dai, a team of doctors and officials in carrying outsource reduction activities followed by awareness programme, fogging and …
The dengue has turned into an epidemic. According to sources, 11 patients have reportedly died of dengue at the SCB Medical College and Hospital in Cuttack. However the numbers are not being disclosed officially fearing a backlash from the opposition. If government records are to be believed, so far only …
Shastri Nagar emerges as dengue den, reports almost half the cases in city Mumbai : In just two months, 55 cases of dengue have been reported from Shastri Nagar in Goregaon West has reported. This is almost half the number of dengue cases the city has recorded since the onset …
‘Pvt Centres Not Following Protocol For Identification’ Lucknow: As several suspected dengue cases are being reported from different government hospitals and many confirmed cases from private hospitals, the chief medical officer Dr SNS Yadav said panic is being created unnecessarily. “There is no need to worry as it is a …
There is a disturbing spike in dengue cases in the Andheri-Kandivli stretch, especially Goregaon, say residents. “At least 50 people living in buildings around Shastri Nagar ground in Goregaon (West) have tested positive for dengue,” said Sukhdeo Karande, a local political worker who is helping people with hospital admission. Even …
An alarming 142 cases of dengue have been detected in August in the city, the highest this year, prompting the municipal bodies to step up preventive measures. From 11 cases in July, the highest till then, the figure for dengue has jumped to 142, which has been attributed to intermittent …
The first death caused by dengue fever outside the city has alarmed the provincial health department and demanding the health and municipal authorities of various districts to improve their efforts to ensure that the fever does not spread across the province with epidemic proportions, it emerged on Sunday. At least …
At a time when dengue is taking an endemic form in the city, the Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) is finding it hard to tackle the dengue menace due to acute shortage of manpower. At present, the GMC is battling to prevent the outbreak of dengue in the city with only …
Dengue virus infection has recently taken endemic proportions in India with dengu type-3 (DEN-3) as a predominant serotype. In this study, we carried out the selection pressure analysis of three critical immunogenic regions of DEN-3. Phylogenetic analysis was then carried out on the positively selected genomic region in the DEN-3 …
Dengue, a mosquito-borne virus of humans, infects over 50 million people annually. Infection with any of the four dengue serotypes induces protective immunity to that serotype, but does not confer long-term protection against infection by other serotypes. The immunological interactions between serotypes are of central importance in understanding epidemiological dynamics …
Dengue scare has gripped residents of Guwahati with incidence of three deaths because of the deadly disease in a week. One person identified as Raju Dewan from Zoo-Narangi Tinali in the city died of Dengue on Thursday taking the tool up to three so far. Dewan’s wife, Loni Dewan predeceased …
Experts trying to find reasons for the steep rise in illnesses spread by mosquitoes in the city over the last two years have squarely blamed patients who don't complete the prescribed course of medication and private clinics who refuse to follow the new drug policy. In the case of malaria, …
Health authorities in Sri Lanka will launch an island wide dengue eradication programme next month. The campaign to mobilize communities in dengue eradication will be launched at the Independence Square on September 13th. Director of Health Services of the Western Province, Dr. Amal Harsha De Silva says that dengue has …
At least 10 lives were claimed by dengue in Karachi up till now while more than 800 cases have been confirmed in the Sindh province. According to details, around 30-35 people are being admitted to hospitals with symptoms of dengue fever on daily basis. The authorities have claimed that the …
New Delhi: Delhi is witnessing a sudden outbreak of dengue cases. Municipal corporation data shows cases of the mosquito-borne disease have reached 96 this season, nearly nine times the number reported last year in the corresponding period (till August 24). Worse, the state health department has said the virus in …
Dengue scare has gripped North Odisha with three persons, two from Balasore and one from Bhadrak, falling prey to the vector-borne disease in last few days. Six others including four children suffering from the disease have been admitted to different hospitals. Earlier, a child from Sinduradi village in Bhogarai block …
PATNA: Twelve more dengue patients were detected at Kochas in Rohtas district on Tuesday, said Dr Pramod Kumar, HoD of microbiology department of Nalanda Medical College and Hospital, who is camping there. He said six out of the 12 were symptomatic. While some of them were being treated in Rohtas …
After a month-long respite from dengue deaths, the city alarmingly recorded three more deaths caused by the virus over the past three days while yet another death — the first one outside Karachi — was reported by a Hyderabad hospital, bringing this year’s death toll in the province to 10, …
Taking seriously to the rising cases of dengue, the health department of the Delhi Government, National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Directorate of Nation Vector Borne Disease Control Programme (DNVBDCP), and National Institute of Malaria Research held a joint meeting today and decided that there was an urgent need to …
New Delhi : Seventy-six cases of dengue have been reported in the city in the first three weeks of August, according to data, compared to four cases in the same period last year. In a further warning, the Delhi government said the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) had also …
BHOPAL: As one more person was diagnosed with dengue on Sunday, the Integrated Disease Surveillance Project (IDSP) authority, which detects and responds to disease outbreaks, in its assessment of report asked district administration to remain vigilant on dengue for next one month. Dengue has already affected about two dozen people …
