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Pneumonic Plague Kills 22 People in Congo

...gue is a respiratory disease and is endemic to the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo where sporadic outbreaks are known to occur//. If the disease is not diagnosed at an initial stage then proves to be fatal to the patient. If diagnosed at an early stage then the patient can be completely cured with antib...

Doctors Confused by the Manly Characteristics of a Five-year-old Boy

...Begusarai district, about 130 km from here, in the eastern Indian state of Bihar. A worried Kumar has consulted dozens of doctors from Begusarai to Patna in the last few years but was repeatedly told that he would have to take his son for medical tests outside Bihar. "At first all the doctors were surpr...

Hantavirus Warning Issued In British Columbia

...ings. It was reported that in May, a 49-year-old eastern Idaho man had died from Hantavirus, which prompted the officials at the Idaho's Central Health District to issue a Hantavirus warning. It was said that since 1978 there have been 21 cases of Hantavirus diagnosed in Idaho of which seven were fatal. ...

Australian beauty with roots in India open to acting in Bollywood

...pted some western values and being a Muslim I have eastern values too," the Sydney university student said, adding "as long as I believe in the right things and treat others well... it shouldn't matter what religion I am." Asked about her chances of winning the Miss World crown, she says she might get into t...

Pneumonic plague Might Be Responsible For The epidemic In Congo - WHO

...c plague’ is responsible for killing 100 people in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, according to preliminary test results// that it has conducted. The authorities from WHO have said that isolation wards have been set up to treat patients. They also explained that the control measures have been hard to i...

Counterfeiter Packs Health Problems: Study

...d as made by Guilin, a 23-year-old man was died in eastern Burma last year. Thus needs more security alerts and changes on legislation and laws dealing with drug manufacturers - says researchers. <br...

Mad-Cow Resistant Calf Cloned in China

...y was marked by the birth of a 55-kg calf //in the eastern province of Shandong Researchers at the Laiyang Agro-Science Institute in Shandong claimed to have used gene-transplant technology to introduce the genes to the calf cloned from cells of an adult cow. The lead researchers were Dong Yajuan and Bo ...

Bariatric Surgery Clinic To Boost Medical Tourism

... ailments. The new facility, first of its kind in eastern India after sporadic attempts elsewhere in the country, is also eyeing patients from the west, where the cost of treatment is 15 per cent more and the waiting time enormous. "The facility, being backed by a support group for obese people, is a compr...

Bariatric Surgery Solution to Obesity and to Boost Medical Tourism

... ailments. The new facility, first of its kind in eastern India after sporadic attempts elsewhere in the country, is also eyeing patients from the west, where the cost of treatment is 15 per cent more and the waiting time enormous. "The facility, being backed by a support group for obese people, is a compr...

Growth Of Maple Trees Affected By Acid Rain

...the most economically valuable tree species in the eastern United States because of its high-priced lumber, syrup and tourist-attracting fall colors. The study, whose lead author, Stephanie Juice '04, was an undergraduate when the research was conducted, suggests that because acid rain makes the soil more ...

UN Report Paints Alarming Picture Of Narcotics Scenario In NE

...IDU, said the report titled 'Drug use in the north eastern states of India: monoograph' published by the UNODC. According to it, 90 per cent of drug users were reported to be injecting in Manipur, Nagaland and Mizoram - where the IDU abuses assumed 'epidemic' proportion with a strong link to AIDS. HIV epid...

Schizophrenia Fellowship To Deliver Mental Health Program

...s mental health program was a great success in the eastern part of the Greater Southern region and hence hope to provide the same service in this area. ...

Malaria Epidemic Forces Assam Rebels Out Of The Jungle

... and Myanmar, besides in heavily forested areas in eastern Assam. "This is not a new phenomenon. Each year we find ULFA cadres forced to come out of the jungles during the malaria season for treatment," Assam Inspector General of Police Khagen Sharma told IANS. "During the days when the ULFA had its bas...

UNICEF To Help For The Betterment Of Refugee Kids in Chhattisgarh

...f the Maoist-hit Dantewada district in the restive eastern state of Chhattisgarh.// UNICEF will specifically look into the health and educational problems of thousands of children settled in these camps. According to official sources, UNICEF assistance came in when Cecilio Adrona, the organisation's rep...

Nearly 75 dead in India Due To Malaria and 300,000 sick

...e than 300,000// debilitated by its onslaught. The eastern Lakhimpur district has taken the worst beating with nearly 30 deaths and up to 150,000 sick. According to Health Minister Bhumidhar Barman, this is partly because the sick have delayed in availing treatment from qualified specialists, which has l...

Japan Bans Import of Poultry from UK

...s also being spotted on another farm nearby in the eastern English county of Norfolk. After this 35,000 birds were being culled to prevent a pandemic. The Health Protection Authority (HPA) has announced to the public that this strain of H7N3 would cause mild disease and cannot be passed from person to person...

Death Toll from Malarial Epidemic Raises To 75

... more than 300,000 others have fallen sick//. The eastern Lakhmipur district has been worst hit by the outbreak with nearly 30 deaths reported and up to 150,000 sick. Cerebral malaria has been detected in other northeastern states but the fatalities have only been reported in tea and resource rich Assam. He...

Assam’s Malaria Death Toll Rises To 75, More People Affecte

...hich has a population of 26 million. The worst-hit eastern district of Lakhimpur has reported nearly 30 deaths and up to 150,000 affected. The fatalities are high in Assam because many people are visiting quacks and sorcerers to treat the parasitic disease caused by the bite of the anopheles mosquito. Ra...

Mumps Outbreak In The US

...eved to have begun in late 2005 at a university in eastern Iowa. The federal officials reported yesterday that the outbreak is continuing to spread. According to latest information from the U.S. Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, there have been more than 1,000 cases reported so far, most of them, ...

Malaria Epidemic Sweeps Northeast India

... died of cerebral malaria and two districts in the eastern part of the state Lakhmipur and Golaghat were the worst hit. He said that the doctors and paramedics have spread out to take preventive steps and cure those hit by the disease. The northeast is a known malaria zone with the disease claiming an estim...

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