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Malaria Epidemic Claims 50 Lives In Assam

...ral malaria since the beginning of April, with the eastern districts of Lakhmipur and Golaghat being the worst hit. "We have been able to check the spread of the disease." The northeast is a known malaria zone with the disease claiming an estimated 500 lives annually. "We have enough stocks of anti-ma...

No Bird Flu Outbreak In Ivory Coast: Health Minister

...ain calm. The death of nearly 200 chickens in an eastern village of the country in March and April sparked fears of a bird flu outbreak in the in Cote d`Ivoire. Since February, five African countries Egypt, Cameroon, Burkina Faso, Niger and Nigeria have confirmed the presence of bird flu infection. Altho...

Malaria Claims 35 Lives In Assam

...S. Most of the casualties were reported from the eastern Assam districts of Golaghat and Lakhimpur, besides from areas bordering Bhutan. "Some 35 people have died of malaria in the past few days and an estimated 20,000 people are hit by the disease," the minister said. Unofficial reports put the death to...

Bird Flu Not The Cause For Mysterious Bird Deaths

...flu. The birds were found dead on Wednesday in the eastern town of Mannar, 220 kms north of the capital, Colombo. Sri Lanka has so far not reported any cases of bird flu, but officials have been keeping a close guard on poultry farms and bird sanctuaries after an outbreak in neighbouring India resulted in th...

Bird Flu Deters Hunters in Russia

...s cancelled. The local officials on Russia’s far eastern Kamchatka Peninsula have banned the seasonal hunt.// Usually the spring bird hunt is scheduled to start between April 26 and May 7 and end on May 5 to 14, depending on the area. But now the RIA Novosti news agency reported that this event was ca...

Bangladesh Bans the Import of Indian Chickens Due To Fear of Bird Flu

... seized 16000 Indian chickens from border areas in eastern district of Comilla and northern district of Rajshahi which were later burned due to the fear of bird flu. // Bangladesh has tightened its border security following the outbreak of bird flu in India. Officials of Bangladesh health service said that ...

High Demand For Protective Suit in Afghan: Culling Would Have To Wait

...an. Bird flu infection has been confirmed in the eastern province of Nangarhar and Kabul. Although the Government officials had stated that massive culling of poultry would be implemented with immediate effect, the poor supply of protective clothing has caused delay. 'Afghanistan is doing its best to com...

Needed, more space for women's sexual identity on marquees

...hey explore the never ending struggle to reconcile eastern traditions with western influences. Debutant director Homi Adajania has cast Naseeruddin Shah, Dimple Kapadia, Saif Ali Khan and Boman Irani in a film unlike any in the genre. The film has all the trappings to make India's English films as distinct ...

Two Year Old Dies Due To HFMD

...ease (HFMD). // This happened in Sarawak state, eastern Malaysia. Totally the disease has killed about eight people including the death of the boy. The child hailing from the town of Kapit was admitted in the local hospital. Deputy State Chief Minister George Chan said to the press that the boy pass...

WHO Devises New Global Strategy To Fight Tuberculosis

...rug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), especially in eastern Europe pose significant challenges to the success of the program. Nearly 260, 000 TB related deaths that occurred during 2004 were a result of co-infection with HIV/AIDS. A majority of the TB patients live in highly populous countries in the Asian ...

First Suspected Bird Flu Case In Serbia: Samples Sent For Analysis

...One rooster and one swan near Bajina Basta, in the eastern Serbian region have been found to show symptoms of bird flu. Samples from the suspected animals have been sent to testing laboratory in Britain to confirm the suspicion, said Dejan Krnjaic, Head, Serbia’s veterinary directorate. In line with the bi...

Poland affected by Bird flu through wild birds

...ka, director of the national laboratory in Pulawy, eastern Poland,"We already have the results of tests on the swan found in (the west Polish town) Kostrzyn Wielkopolski. It did have the H5N1 virus." ."The spring is coming. It is clear that when it arrives we will have more and more cases of bid flu," head ...

Humans in the bird flu net: suspects in Azerbaijan

...ealth. Daikyand settlement in Salyan Rayon in the eastern part of the country is the location of all the suspected cases, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported on Friday. In Indonesia two children had died of bird flu, bringing to 22 the total number of death from the disease in the country. This re...

Malaysia Struggles to Control Hand, Foot-and-Mouth Disease In Sarawak

An outbreak of hand, foot-and-mouth disease in eastern Sarawak state of Malaysia is causing concern among Malaysian health officials, who are saying that they would shut down all schools in the area to prevent the disease from spreading throughout the country. // The virus, which causes the disease, ha...

HIV-Positive Woman To Be Congress Candidate In Assam

...didate from the Barhampur assembly constituency in eastern Assam's Nagaon district, about 140 km from here. Former Assam chief minister Prafulla Kumar Mahanta is the sitting legislator from Barhampur. "I am contesting the elections on the Congress ticket and this would be a big challenge for me and the c...

Malaysia : Fear of HFMD Disease Leads To Closure Of 500 Kindergarten Schools

...n ordered to close ,after four children , from the eastern Malaysian state of Sarawak// succumbed to the hand, foot and mouth viral disease, according to the reports from the official news agency today. Health Minister Chua Soi Lek told reporters that Health officials have ordered immediate closure of 488 ...

Kolkata To Get World-Class Cancer Hospital Soon

... said that the centre would benefit the ill-served eastern part of the country. He said a world-class research facility would be built within TMC to carry out research activities in the field of cancer. "We hope to make it a centre of excellence for early detection and treatment of cancer," he said. Bh...

Mystery behind the evolution of the Human brain

...udy of fossil material excavated from the sites in eastern Africa revealed a bevy of chewed fish bones, particularly catfish. Brain development and function requires polyunsaturated fatty acid docosahexaenoic acid (DHA). DHA is critical to proper neuron function. Human baby fat provides both the energy sou...

Friends of Earth Protest water Diversion Project ,Garrison-II.

...da is to transfer water from the Missouri River to eastern North Dakota, especially heavily populated areas in the red river drainage basin. // The environmental groups are up in arms against this proposition, due to a perceptible risk of foreign biota filling up the river. Beatrice Olivastri, executive di...

A Royal Flush And A White Elephant

...a three week long unofficial tour of the countries eastern districts, which has costed the cash strapped government dearly. The kings make shift bathroom alone costed over Nepalese Rs. 200.000 The kings of other countries lead ordinary lives. They will wear a poor man's clothes and eat ordinary food, the J...

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