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 …
Around 400 cases of dengue were reported in the national capital this season, almost triggering the threat of a dengue outbreak in the city. Around 30 cases were reported on Saturday alone. The South Delhi Municipal Corporation has so far reported the highest number of cases, around 150 cases, with …
New Delhi: Delhi reported 35 fresh cases of dengue on Wednesday, the highest for a single day this season. The total number of cases has now gone up to 298. A nineyear-old girl from Sangam Vihar in South Delhi, who was confirmed positive for dengue, died last month while being …
The civic bodies seem ill prepared to meet the rising cases of dengue and malaria in the Capital with a majority of posts in the North Delhi Municipal Corporation’s malaria department lying vacant. The NDMC has six posts of entomologists and assistant malaria officers, all of which are unfilled and …
Total number of cases so far this season goes up to 233 The Capital reported 31 fresh cases of dengue on Monday taking the total number of cases to 233 this season. According to figures released by Delhi Municipal Corporations, all the 12 zones, except the Sadar Paharganj zone, in …
'There is no specific treatment available for the disease but phase wise general treatment can cure it easily. People must not neglect even simple fever and they must consult doctors. Timely treatment can cure 90 per cent of the dengue-affected patients' Symptoms of Dengue Dengue fever, also known as break …
The spurt in dengue cases has prompted Delhi Health Minister Dr A K Walia to warn officials responsible for fumigation and other drives to contain mosquito breeding that dereliction of duty would not be tolerated and the disease has to be tackled on a war-footing. As the minister sounded the …
Five of the patients are minors. The highest number of dengue cases for a single day were reported in the Capital on Tuesday, with 12 patients testing positive for the virus — five of them minors. So far, 85 people have tested positive for dengue in the city, three of …
This new WHO report provides scientific information on the connections between weather and climate and major health challenges. These range from diseases of poverty to emergencies arising from extreme weather events and disease outbreaks. The Atlas of health and climate is a product of this unique collaboration between the meteorological …
No Fumigation As Corpns Hold Up Workers’ Pay The receding monsoon may have left the city staring at another dengue outbreak as municipal staff responsible for checking mosquito breeding have gone on strike to demand four months’ pay arrears. Doctors say cases of the mosquito-borne disease that assumed epidemic proportions …
Malaria and dengue are unpleasant enough individually. However, it’s their joint force that is fearful. Experts say a higher number of malaria and dengue co-infection cases have been noticed in the city in the past couple of months. There are several co-infection cases, wherein two diseases occur in the person …
A division bench of the Gujarat high court on Tuesday asked an expert committee to come up with suggestions to curb spread of malaria and dengue in the city. The order came after government authorities filed an affidavit showing that cases of malaria had increased from 5,504 last year to …
KOLKATA, 16 SEPT: Constant travelling and rapid urbanisation of rural areas have contributed to a nearly 50-fold increase in dengue cases over the last 50 years, say experts. "Aedes aegypti was known to be the vector of urban areas and Aedes albopictus was responsible for the disease in rural and …
District accounts for 90% of cases reported in State this year The Health Department says that it is chalking out a special strategy and action plan for the capital district for tackling the threat of dengue fever, which seems to be assuming alarming proportions year after year in the district. …
NEW DELHI, 11 SEPT: The official report from a team sent by the Union health ministry to visit West Bengal following an outbreak of dengue has sought to blame the recurrence of the killer disease in the state and especially in Kolkata on historical reasons and faulty test reports due …
New Delhi: The world’s first effective vaccine against dengue could be available by 2015. Scientists on Tuesday announced a major dengue vaccine breakthrough, with a candidate vaccine showing a 60%-90% protection rate against three virus strains (DENV 1, 3 and 4) that causes the mosquito-borne disease. The vaccine CYD-TDV was …
NewDelhi:Genetically modified mosquitoes, created and bred in a lab and capable of destroying its own species, is the latest weapon in the global fight against dengue. The dengue virus is spread by an infected female Aedes Aegypti mosquito. Scientists from the University of California in the US, the University of …
The recent outbreak of dengue in the State became yet another issue over which the leadership of the Congress and the Trinamool Congress locked horns over the weekend after West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee (WBPCC) president Pradip Bhattacharya alleged that the State government is “suppressing facts” in connection with the …
Dengue virus belongs to family Flaviviridae, having four serotypes that spread by the bite of infected Aedes mosquitoes. It causes a wide spectrum of illness from mild asymptomatic illness to severe fatal dengue haemorrhagic fever/dengue shock syndrome (DHF/DSS). Approximately 2.5 billion people live in dengue-risk regions with about 100 million …
The Sri Lankan government plans to set up a center to conduct research on dengue which is spreading fast in the country. The proposed Center for Dengue Research is to be established at the Microbiology Department of the Medical Sciences Faculty at the Sri Jayewardenepura University at a cost of …
Dengue claimed another life on Tuesday amid a dissection of the outbreak that revealed how the administration first ignored preventive pre-monsoon protocols and then warning signs of a vector explosion in favourable breeding conditions. Mary Banwar, a 30-year-old employee of the RN Tagore International Institute of Cardiac Sciences, died of …
