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Hepatitis C : By No Means Lily-livered! Beware

... said. Clinical diagnosis is warranted even with stray cases of njecting illegal drugs, unsterile tattoo or body piercing, or medical treatment abroad. Indeed it is better to be safe than sorry !...

AIIMS Campus - A Breeding Ground for Mosquitoes

...s full of garbage and a frequent resting place for stray dogs. The central lawn often has stagnant water and no one bothers about it. Water in flower vessels and coolers of hostel residents and staff quarters almost goes without notice. The overhead water tanks supplying water to several wards are not...

Mental Health: Mind at Peace or in Pieces?

...a capture regarding suicides is erratic, with only stray incidents being reported. To correct this, it will be worthwhile to spruce up surveillance, enabling a record of all statistics to build an authentic suicide database, which will form the edifice of suicide prevention strategies. Additionally, awaren...

Dogs Create Panic in Pakistan City

...le frenzied pursuers on foot dispatched another 35 stray dogs before eliminating the second. 'It was an extraordinary situation,' said Saeed Anwar Shah of the Rawalpindi General Hospital, where many people were treated. Rabies is endemic to Pakistan. While there is no exact data on the incidence of att...

More Indians Die of Rabies Annually

New Delhi: Beware of stray dogs! An estimated 19,000 people die every year du...hem. "As a result you can find a large number of stray dogs in India. Loving animals is a great thing but they should not be left on the roads to bite othe...

Minister Calls for Action Plan To Solve Man-Animal Conflict

...y of man modified habitats to leopard, presence of stray dogs and cattle in forest fringe areas etc. are some of them. Crops like sugarcanes and tea estates provide excellent cover for leopards that facilitates their existence close to human beings and thus escalates the conflict. Such conflicts result in ...

Not Just ‘Bird’ Flu Anymore- Avian Influenza Strikes Cas

...covered H5N1 virus antibodies in 20 percent of 500 stray cats sourced from areas near poultry farms.These were in regions of Jakarta and Sumatra. The infection may have occurred due to the cats eating infected chickens, but scientists are duly worried about the spread of the virus from fowl to mammals. ...

Srinagar Plagued by Stray Dog Menace

...inagar are quite frustrated by the large number of stray dogs on the city's streets, with 4,500 dog bite ca...ration. 'Most of these dog bites are because the stray dog population has exploded in the last few years,' Khan told IANS. Doctors at the department of s...

New Vaccine to Tackle Rabies in Dogs

... When scattered on the road, the capsule attracts stray dogs due to its artificial taste enhancers - like ...ic rabid animal. The drug has been tested on 31 stray dogs in Bhopal over two years. India has one of the highest prevalence of human rabies, and dogs,...

An Anti-rabies Campaign With Bite

... aims to restore the mental and physical health of stray dogs. And it particularly focuses on anti-rabies v...welfare of animals and humans is related since our stray dog sterilisation and anti-rabies vaccination programme only helps prevent rabies in humans," Debasi...

India Begins Trial of Oral Vaccine for Stray Dogs

...ill be fed to dogs. Every year more than 70,000 stray and community dogs are being sterilized in India, says AWBI. The stray and community dog population in the country is estimated at nearly 20 million. Headquartered in Ch...

Animal Lovers Protest Brutal Dog Killings

New Delhi: The recent reports of stray dogs in metropolitan cities killing small children...s reported that a six-month-old baby was mauled by stray dogs in Hyderabad. Authorities had caught about 22,000 dogs last year. A similar drive against stra...

Unknown Virus Takes the Life of Three Transplant Patients

...an open mind about such procedures. This is only a stray incident and is certainly not the expected outcome of all organ transplants. SV/V...

Female Ducks Develop Complicated Genitals to Outwit Aggressive Males

...lards pair off to mate, females are often raped by stray males. Still the ducklings born of consensual sex seem to be the norm. That was puzzling and so Brennan's team looked at a lot of duck bottoms. What they found surprised them -- corkscrew-shaped oviducts, with plenty of potential dead-ends. "In...

Garbage Dumping Ground in Pune Causing Health Hazards to Nearby Residents

...s people are suffering with, besides the menace of stray dogs. There is lot of percolation from the garbage dump. People are falling ill. The water is contaminated. Corporation officials had promised clean water. They have also laid a pipeline but there is no water, said Dnyaneshwar Admane, the village h...

Nanomedicine Gives the Way for Nerve Cell Regeneration

...s straightforward nerve growth and never lets them stray from the fast lane."...

Female Ducks Develop Complicated Genitals to Outwit Aggressive Males

...lards pair off to mate, females are often raped by stray males. Still the ducklings born of consensual sex seem to be the norm. That was puzzling and so Brennan's team looked at a lot of duck bottoms. What they found surprised them -- corkscrew-shaped oviducts, with plenty of potential dead-ends. "In...

Stray Kerala Dogs Face Keyhole Surgery to Control Birth Rate

The killing of stray dogs in Kerala, has prompted the Society for the P...rol (ABC) by starting a keyhole surgery drive for stray dogs to control their reproductive ability. M.K. Sethumadhavan, District Secretary of the SPCA, sa...

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