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 …
Dengue has become endemic in India with outbreaks occurring almost every year. The seroprevalence and serotypic data of the last 7 years in samples obtained from suspected dengue patients from a tertiary care hospital were analyzed. Out of 7846 serum samples received in the virology laboratory from suspected dengue cases …
Anti-dengue operations have been intensified in Tirunelveli district even as the death toll mounted to 29. The outbreak of dengue, whose impact is seen in other southern districts, has put public health officials on their toes. Director of Public Health R.T. Porkaipandian is in Tirunelveli with a team of officials …
The number of deaths caused by dengue has sharply dropped in the North Western Province due to the high quality health service offered to patients, Provincial Director of Health R M S K Ratnayake said. Addressing a press briefing yesterday, he said health authorities cannot destroy all dengue breeding places …
CHENNAI : As if the spurt of Dengue induced deaths in Tirunelveli region isn’t alarming by itself, the sheer number of cases recorded in 2012 is a shocker. According to the health department, in just five months this year, there have been 1,632 cases of dengue recorded officially in Tamil …
Dengue has claimed 55 lives. Nearly 1,500 dengue cases had been reported from all parts of the country during the past five months. The public should be vigilant about dengue mosquito breeding sites common in certain areas, a Health Ministry spokesman said. According to the spokesman, a majority of mosquito …
Dengue is the most important mosquito-borne, human viral disease in many tropical and sub-tropical areas. In India the disease has been essentially described in the form of case series. We reviewed the epidemiology of dengue in India to improve understanding of its evolution in the last 50 years and support …
NewDelhi:Delhi is under attack from the Culex mosquito, persistent biters whose numbers are known to grow exponentially at dawn and dusk. Alarm bells were rung after a “very high density” of these mosquitoes was reported in the past two weeks. The spurt, reported by the National Vector Borne Disease Control …
Data on insecticide use for vector control are essential for guiding pesticide management systems on judicious and appropriate use, resistance management, and reduction of risks to human health and the environment. The researchers studied the global use and trends of insecticide use for control of vector-borne diseases for the period …
Lahore—The administration of Lahore General Hospital has launched a website regarding dengue awarness and control. Principal PGMI & LGH Prof. Tariq Salahuddin while presiding over a meeting, attended by MS. LGH Dr. Mohammad Hassan and senior professors, said that citizens could watch the website to get information and guidance regarding …
Aedes aegypti dispersion is the major reason for the increase in dengue transmission in South America. In Brazil, control of this mosquito strongly relies on the use of pyrethroids and organophosphates against adults and larvae, respectively. In consequence, many Ae. aegypti field populations are resistant to these compounds. Resistance has …
Dengue is one of the most important mosquito-borne viral diseases in the world, and is endemic in approximately 120 countries. It has been estimated that there are 50–100 million cases of dengue fever and 3.6 billion people are at risk of infection. It is emerging and re-emerging in the tropics …
Islamabad—Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) Administration is launching first round of anti-dengue drive in the rural areas of Islamabad from March 12. Around 1,00,000 pamphlets containing information about the preventive measures against dengue would be distributed among the local community. The main focus of first round would be social mobilizing and …
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has prepared a 3-year program for prevention and controlling the threat of dengue epidemics in the province. The program was prepared by the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Health Department. In this connection a high level meeting under the chairmanship of Chief Secretary KP, Ghulam Dastagir Akhtar was held …
City District Government Lahore (CDGL) has taken all necessary steps for eradication of dengue and town administrations have been directed for the implementation of dengue regulations.According to a CDGL's spokesperson, notices are being issued to tyre shops and sprays are being done in tyre storehouses. DCO Lahore Ahad Khan Cheema …
Alarmed by the reported positive cases in Lahore, the federal health authorities have sounded a dengue alert in the capital, Dawn has learnt. The secretary of the Capital Administration and Development Division (CADD) has in this regard sent advisories to all the hospitals working under the administrative control of the …
Special Assistant (health) to Chief Minister Khawaja Salman Rafique has said the Punjab government will make its system more effective in eradicating the dengue virus in the light of recommendations and guidelines of medical experts of the three-day dengue conference. Addressing the concluding session of the international conference organized by …
After unleashing a killing spree last year, dengue has reappeared in the city with 59 fresh cases reported at different hospitals of the provincial capital during the last two months. As many as 59 fresh cases of dengue fever were reported during the first two months of 2012 in different …
BHUBANESWAR: In spite of the City Health Office (CHO) under Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation’s (BMC) round-the-clock efforts to combat mosquito menace, there has been no significant decrease in the mosquito density. Recently, there was a fear of dengue outbreak here, but no positive cases have been found yet. The mosquito density …
Brazilian Health Minister Alexandre Padilla on Thursday warned that Rio de Janeiro faced a major dengue epidemic, although he said the virus strain prevalent was not fatal. "I believe that Rio could this year face one of the worst dengue epidemics in its history, in terms of number of cases," …
Dengue dynamics are driven by complex interactions between human-hosts, mosquito-vectors and viruses that are influenced by environmental and climatic factors. The objectives of this study were to analyze and model the relationships between climate, Aedes aegypti vectors and dengue outbreaks in Noumea (New Caledonia), and to provide an early warning …
