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Scientists crack dengue fever puzzle

Experts may have solved the mystery of why dengue fever, unlike other infections, is usually more se...timate that over 50 million people are affected by dengue each year, with about five percent of patients dying of the illness. The findings may complicate th...

Toll-like Receptor (Tlr3) Attachment Leads To Lethal Encephalitis

...ions in Medindia: In India, malaria, filaria and dengue are the most prevalent diseases spread by mosquitoes. Over two million cases of malaria alone are reported. Even more astonishing is the fact that India spends 100 million dollars on malaria. In spite of spending so much, the diseases continue to exp...

Mumbai Alert: Possibility Of An Epidemic Outbreak

Six deaths of suspected leptospirosis and dengue in the densely populated areas of Kalyan and Dombi... respiratory failure while the others of suspected dengue fever. Blood samples will be sent for analysis tomorrow to the National Institute of Virology, and...

Health Authorities Claim Some Relief likely from Post floods diseases in Mumbai

...dly post-floods diseases such as leptospirosis and dengue showed signs of abating. The government-run hospitals say the situation is likely to become completely normal over the next few days with the end of the incubation period for most of the waterborne diseases. Up to 170 people have died in the past 1...

Water Borne Diseases causing More Havoc in Mumbai

...and hepatitis A Vector-borne diseases: Malaria, dengue and dengue haemorrhagic fever, yellow fever, and West Nile Fever The major risk factor for outbreaks associate...

Dengue Outbreak in Kolkata, Four Dead

...at swept through some areas of south Kolkata is // dengue or brain fever. There have been reports of 4 casu...ties and blood tests have revealed the presence of dengue in eight other people. The unofficial death toll is seven. All the medical colleges and hospitals h...

Dengue in Delhi – 26 Cases reported and 3 dea

... than 30 people who died and around 1,000 cases of dengue were reported. N.K. Yadav, deputy health officer, Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), claims that the situation is under control. They have hired 1,055 more health workers to check and disinfect places where mosquitoes are breeding in homes and ...

Dengue fever in Delhi after the Monsoon

N.Delhi is affected by the dengue fever that can sometime be deadly and this is due ... dengue. Infection and recovery from one type of dengue does not protect a person from another type. Dengue Hemorrhagic Shock Syndrome (DHSS) is a dangerous...

45 People die in West Bengal due to Dengue and suspected Japanese Encephalitis

After declaration of dengue fever as an epidemic in West Bengal by Chief Minis...ple // in West Bengal. The confirmed death due to dengue is claimed to be at 20 in West Bengal and 25 cases of death is suspected to be caused by Japanese en...

PM announces a new health care order for India

...ngs on the spread of HIV , Japaneses Encephalitis, dengue and the silent entree of the bird Flu into the Indian soil this seems like an extremely positive step by the government, for the people. br>...

Vaccine For Dengue Fever On Trial In Asia-Pacific

A dengue fever vaccine full of promise is being tried in the Asia Pacific region, says drug giant GlaxoSmithKline.Earlier trials of the GlaxoSmithKline vaccine //have been completed in the US and further testing on a few hundred Thai volunteers should be fini...

Imported Plants Could Deadly Harbor Mosquitoes, Says Report

...harbor dangerous mosquitoes that transmit malaria, dengue and other related illnesses. // The Asian tiger mosquito has been implicated in about 23 diseases and this species was detected in the Netherlands leading to speculation that these diseases may spread in Europe. These mosquitoes were detected in imp...

Dengue Fever Claims Five Lives In Pakistan

...all incoming patients. The vector of the dangerous dengue fever is the Aedes Egyptii mosquito that usually bites during the day. The spokesperson said that the government had sent blood samples of five patients from Congo to laboratories in South Africa for tests. 'We are awaiting test results of these s...

Fear Of Dengue Epidemic Looms Large: Fever Kills Five in Pakistan

...n as the Pakistani government struggles to prevent dengue from taking on epidemic proportions, health offici...ally bites during the day. It occurs in two forms, dengue fever (DF), and dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF), also called the Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCH...

Joining The Military 'My Best Move' - US Army Nursing Chief

... to those regions." Much of the work has been on dengue fever, anti-malarial treatments, HIV/AIDS. "As we learnt how to work better, the countries (of the region) felt they needed more support than they could provide, they would know where to look to." This became apparent in the wake of the Dec 26, 2...

Chikun Guniya Outbreak in 29 Nasik Villages

... people that the disease was only a milder form of dengue and had "nothing to do with bird flu." Public Heal...n outbreak of fever cases, which includes cases of dengue and chikun guniya. However, no cases of malaria were detected," the minister said....

Poor Quality Of Drinking Water Blamed For Cholera Cases In Delhi

...of 2005 and 17 in 2004. There was no report of any dengue case. --Edited IANS...

Flying Injection: Prevent the bite of disease

...n United States. Other diseases like encephalitis, dengue and yellow fever are also caused by mosquito bites. The West Nile virus is becoming a cause for concern. People can get acutely sick after infections set in from mosquito bites. The only silver lining is to take adequate precaution. Mosquitoes bree...

Delhi Launches Special Drive to Check Dengue Spread

Sounding a dengue alert in the capital, the MCD today said there was...to check breeding of the vector. A high index of dengue vector mosquito breeding, responsible for the spread of the dreaded fever, has been reported from va...

No Need For Malaria Hospital In Kolkata

...ogramme. // Speaking at an all-India seminar on dengue and malaria, Joshi said last year in Kolkata only person died of Malaria whereas in Bombay the number in the corresponing year was 73. Reprentatives of UP, Bihar, Jharkhand Orissa, Assam and Pondichery participated in the seminar. Source:PTI News...

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