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Encephalitis Claims 131 lives in Uttar Pradesh

Encephalitis is slowly spreading in UP and causing more deaths especially in children. 11 more deaths were reported from Gorakhpur. The toll caused by the rapidly spreading killer virus // in the state has gone up to 131... ..While the disease was so far confined largely to Gorakhpur and neighboring Maharajganj and Kushinagar districts, it has now spread to not only nearby Bahraich, Barabanki an...

Encephalitis Deaths Cross 220 in Uttar Pradesh

Lucknow, Aug 26 . Japanese encephalitis deaths continue to rise in Uttar Pradesh and the latest toll has crossed 220 in less than a month. //.. ..Dr.T.N.Dhole from Microbiology Department of Lucknow's Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences blamed "official apathy" for the unabated spread of the killer brain fever, which had been striking eastern Uttar Pradesh for nearly three...

Encephalitis Has Claimed 400 Lives In Uttar Pradesh

Japanese encephalitis continues to claim victims in India's most populous state of Uttar Pradesh, where nearly 400 people, mostly children, have died since the disease broke out a month ago. // ..Union Health Minister Ambumani Ramadoss Thursday visited Gorakhpur, where a nodal treatment centre was established to deal with the daily flow of victims from neighbouring districts, and assured all pos...

Uttar Pradesh Encephalitis toll continues to rise - Over 600 dead

The Japanese Encephalitis epidemic continues to cause deaths in the state of Uttar Pradesh. The embarrassed health officials are tight-lipped about the toll in a Japanese encephalitis epidemic; the Uttar Pradesh government and yesterday admitted the dreaded disease had claimed 591 lives.// ....As many as 415 people, about 80 percent of them children, have died in Gorakhpur, the town with the best...

AIDS Stats From Hilly State Of Uttaranchal

Health Minister of Uttaranchal Tilakraj Behad has revealed for the first time the AID statistics from the newly formed state.// There were 48 AIDS patients and 343 HIV positive cases in the state. ..Uttaranchal is a state whose economy thrives on tourism as it is in the lower Himalayan area with famous Hindu shrines such as Badrinath, Kedarnath and Rishikesh. The health Minister said:'AIDS is sp...

Bihar And Uttar Pradesh Must Take Initiative In Population Control

According to an NGO official India’s population stabilization solely rests on the two northern states of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh//, which has the highest fertility rates. ..'India's population stabilization is possible if Bihar and Uttar Pradesh take an immediate lead in checking population growth' A.R. Nanda, executive director, Population Foundation of India, said. ..'If high growth states lik...

Uttar Pradesh To Prepone The Japanese Encephalitis Immunisation Drive

The Uttar Pradesh government has decided to prepone the Japanese Encephalitis immunisation drive. This has caused displeasure among the health experts in the centre// as they feel that it might not be he right time and the data may need further analysis. ....It has been decided that the immunisation campaign scheduled to take place on June 18 is to be undertaken on May 15, 2006 itself. 5.2 milli...

Fresh Polio Cases Reported In Uttar Pradesh

The news of fresh polio cases coming from Uttar Pradesh has disproved the claims of health authorities about the eradication of polio,// as 17 new cases have been reported in the state. ....This is reported by the annual report of the National Polio Surveillance Project (NPSP) issued here this month. ....Some of the victims had undergone the much-publicised immunization programme, funded not on...

Uttar Pradesh Government's Decision To Prepone Immunization Does Not Please Experts

The decision of the Uttar Pradesh government to prepone the Japanese Encephalitis immunization drive has not gone down well with experts in New Delhi. //The drive was originally to have taken place on June 18, but the government has preponed it to May 15 just four days after the delivery of 5.2 million doses of the Japanese Encephalitis tissue culture vaccine manufactured by the Chengdu Institute...

High Court Stops Functioning of Ayurvedic, Unani Colleges in Uttar Pradesh

The Allahabad High Court today directed Uttar Pradesh government to stop functioning of all but one medical colleges in the state imparting education in Indian Medicine. // ....The court asked the state government not to continue with counselling and admission process in these colleges... ..The order was passed by Justice Sunil Ambawani on a contempt petition filed by one Rajesh Kumar of Varanas...

Mainpuri- First District in Uttar Pradesh to Impart Sex-Education to Girls

Mainpuri will be the first district in Uttar Pradesh to impart sex education to girl students of 70 junior high schools, officials said today. // ....The state government had selected Mainpuri and Allahabad districts to start the sex education in which girls will be educated about the HIV/AIDS and other sex-related problems, they said... ..Interactions and discussions will be held apart from dis...

36 Children Die of Encephalitis in Uttar Pradesh

With the onset of rains in large parts of north India, encephalitis has once again struck in the pockets of eastern Uttar Pradesh where the virus has already claimed the lives of 36 children, officials said.// ....Even as health authorities claim the currently spreading virus was not the deadly Japanese encephalitis, they do not rule out its possibility in the days to come. ...."So far, we have...

Uttar Pradesh Dengue Figure Rises to 435

The dengue virus continued its spread across Uttar Pradesh with 44 new cases, taking the total to 435, while the chikungunya viral disease started showing up// in many areas Monday. ....Though the death toll from dengue stands at 11, the state recorded 44 new cases since Saturday. The spread of the disease has been confirmed in 36 districts. ....Chikungunya is on the rise with 16 of the 37 sampl...

Yellow Rain Lashes Uttar Pradesh Village

Yellow rain lashed Maqdumpur Qazi village in Uttar Pradeshs Kaushambi District for over a week. ......Villagers feel the yellow rains are due to divine displeasure. ......The dried up drops dot the concrete floors, roofs and dish antennae across the village. ......The villagers are scared that the pungent yellow drops, may be a sign of pending catastrophe or an epidemic. ......"The phenomen...

Uttar Pradesh Struggles to Contain Japanese Encephalitis

Doctors in Uttar Pradeshs Gorakhpur District are grappling to fight against a deadly viral infection, Japanese Encephalitis , that has killed at least 30 children in the past five months. ......Dr. A.K.Rathi, Head of Paediatric Department, B.R.D Medical College, said that the hospital run by the college has received over 100 patients since January out of whom 30 children have so far died of the d...

Uttar Pradesh to Declare Revised Medical Entrance Results

Admitting serious anomalies in the results of the medical entrance examination, the Uttar Pradesh government has decided to declare revised results Thursday. ......The government will also announce the report submitted by a specially constituted nine-member technical committee that suggested reassessment of the result. ......About 84,000 candidates had taken the Combined Pre-Medical Test (CPMT)...

No Sex Education, Say Uttar Pradesh Teachers

Uttar Pradesh is all set to introduce sex education in its schools from Class 9, but teachers have threatened to burn the books , saying the material goes against Indian culture. ......"The books on sex education supplied by the government should be promptly withdrawn," Om Prakash Sharma, chief of the secondary schools teachers' association, told reporters Monday. ........."If they fail to do s...