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 …
Insects are the pre-eminent form of metazoan life on land, with as many as 1018 individuals alive at any one instant and over three-quarters of a million species described. Although it is estimated that there are as many as 14,000 species that are blood feeders, only three to 400 species …
Questions have been raised about the transparency and scientific quality of regulatory processes applied in the first open field releases of genetically modified (GM) insects, and there is concern that inappropriate precedents have been set, particularly through generic risk assessments covering multiple species and technologies. The GM insects tested in …
A multinational, prospective clinical study was carried out in South-East Asia (SEA) and Latin America (LA), to ascertain the proportion of inapparent dengue infections in households of febrile dengue cases, and to compare clinical data and biological markers from subjects with various dengue disease patterns. Dengue infection was laboratory-confirmed during …
Corporation cites environmental, topographical reasons A team of Corporation and Suchitwa Mission officials visited a government site near Palode here on Thursday as part of conducting a feasibility study for setting up a temporary garbage-treatment facility there. According to sources, setting up of a temporary plant to process waste using …
Lahore—Secretary Health, Punjab, Mohammad Jehanzeb Khan has directed the concerned officers to complete first round of larviciding by 25th January 2012 in the risky areas of Lahore, Rawalpindi, Gujranwala, Faisalabad and Multan to eradicate dengue larvae and adult mosquitoes. He also directed to start second round of larviciding from 15th …
LAHORE – The ruthless dengue virus killed yet another patient in the City at peak winter on Wednesday, taking the overall death toll till today to 377. Muhammad Shehzad (42), a resident of Mansoora, lost his battle of life with the deadly virus at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, raising alarms …
Cases of dengue-chikungunya co-infection are on the rise, causing concern to health planners and doctors. About three per cent of dengue-chikungunya cases fall under the co-infection category, with the patient suffering from both the diseases at the same time. Incidentally, the same Aedes aegypti mosquito transmits both the dengue and …
BHUBANESWAR: The year has been as challenging as it could be on the health front with public health concerns coupled with a belligerent medical workforce keeping the Government and the Health Department on their toes for a substantial part of 2011. Dengue raised its ugly head in a disastrous manner …
Previous studies on the influence of weather on Aedes aegypti dynamics in Puerto Rico suggested that rainfall was a significant driver of immature mosquito populations and dengue incidence, but mostly in the drier areas of the island. We conducted a longitudinal study of Ae. aegypti in two neighborhoods of the …
The highest number of dengue cases in the country, from January to December, has been reported from the Western Province. Health Ministry sources said that 72 percent of the dengue cases were reported from the Colombo and Gampaha Districts. Sources said that the total number of dengue cases reported this …
If you have been coughing, wheezing, finding it difficult to breathe and overall feeling rather blue during this change of season, blame it on the low wind speed and high levels of particulate matter being recorded in the Capital. “The high concentration of particulate matter being recorded in the city …
Personnel of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) deployed in Naxal-affected areas are facing a threat as grave as bullets — mosquitoes. In the past 10 months — January to October — at least 17 CRPF personnel have died due to malaria and dengue in the left-wing ex-tremism (LWE)-affected states. …
At least six dengue patients were found in different VDCs in Nawalparasi district this year, confirmed the District Public Health Office, Nawalparasi, RSS reports. The dengue patients were found in the district as most of the VDCs in the district are close to Chitwan, which is one among the districts …
LAHORE – The toll from the deadly dengue reached in the City to 366 as the virus killed one more patient on Sunday. Besides, the ruthless disease forced dozens of Lahorites to approach hospitals for preliminary tests, confirming 30 new cases. Ghulam Murtaza (48), a resident of Sadiqia Colony, Khokhar …
All the villages and tribal hamlets of Warangal, Karimnagar, Khammam, Adilabad and neighbouring districts have been affected by viral outbreaks, with hospitals of various regions being flooded with patients suffering from viral fever. Most of the viral fever observed in these regions include dengue and other unknown viral pyrexia. Both …
Aedes aegypti (Linnaeus) and Aedes albopictus Skuse mosquitoes transmit serious human arboviral diseases including yellow fever, dengue and chikungunya in many tropical and sub-tropical countries. Females of the two species have adapted to undergo preimaginal development in natural or artificial collections of freshwater near human habitations and feed on human …
Dengue cases in the capital are nearing the 1,000 mark despite some signs of decline in recent days. In the past 24 hours, a total of 16 people have been diagnosed with dengue fever in different hospitals here. "Dengue cases gradually fall with the onset of winters. In the past …
Even as India’s largest drug maker, Ranbaxy, is confident of launching its first “new drug” by January 2012 to combat malaria in the country, the global euphoria the potential drug had generated in the initial stages of its research seems missing. Health experts attribute this to the absence of international …
The total number of fever deaths reported in the district this year has more than doubled from last year. While a total of 8 cases were reported in 2010, the number has so far reached 20 this year. The increase is mainly owing to the diseases including leptospirosis (rat fever), …
AHMEDABAD: The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) aims to ready the master plan to combat the outbreak of diseases three months in advance. Talking to reporters, AMC commissioner Guruprasad Mohapatra admitted that the corporation has learnt its lessons and has decided that master plan will be readied three months in advance. …
