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Thalassaemic Child's Parents Campaign for Awareness

...ntinued thalassaemia would definitely emerge as an endemic disease in West Bengal. Thalassaemia is a genetic blood disorder in which the red cells of the blood are abnormal and die fast leading to anaemia. After several years, iron gets deposited in various organs, affecting their function and leading to d...

India may See Outbreak of Cardiovascular Illnesses

...well see an outbreak of cardiovascular diseases in endemic proportion in the near future, warns a survey whil...eglected diseases like diabetes are likely to take endemic proportions. It is expected that the country would have a population of around 57.2 million diabet...

Eradicating Polio a Better Option Than Control of the Disease: Study

... the world through the use of poliovirus vaccines, endemic wild polioviruses still continue to circulate in s...increasing the immunization intensity in currently endemic areas. Immunization intensity is an indication of the level of vaccination effort aimed at increasin...

Intercell to Begin Phase II JE Vaccine Trials in India

...ess for our Japanese Encephalitis vaccine to enter endemic markets. It is our priority to make the vaccine, w... for the population and especially the children in endemic regions.” Mr Vijay Kumar Datla, Chairman and Managing Director of Biological E. Ltd said, "We beli...

Asians in US Increasingly Undergoing Plastic Surgery to Look White

...ressure to alter one's features and body is almost endemic in every group and ethnic community in America, observers say. But the minorities feel the pressure more acutely. According to a survey by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS), the number of minorities getting plastic surgery quadrupled...

Ancient Worm Disease Could Be Eradicated Within Two Years, UN Agency Reports

...tion worldwide, Dr. Savioli said. Guinea worm is endemic in some villages of sub-Saharan Africa, spread through contaminated water. Its effects are crippling, with victims developing large ulcers, usually in the lower leg. The ulcers swell, at times to the size of a tennis ball, and burst, releasing a spag...

Guinea Worm Disease Will Be Wiped Out Soon

...ree in early March. Currently the disease is still endemic in certain villages in sub-Saharan Africa. Some of the low cost methods to prevent people from being infected are providing safe drinking water supplies, filtering drinking water using fine-mesh cloth, and preventing infected people from wading in...

A New Pathway To Deal With Sleeping Sickness

...ping sickness affects humans and livestock, and is endemic in sub-Saharan Africa where it is estimated to affect as many as 70,000 people. Leishmaniasis is estimated to affect millions of individuals throughout the world, and can lead to skin lesions, tissue damage, fever, blindness and death. Chagas disease...

United States Department of Defense Selects Ichor Medical Systems to Develop Biodefense Vaccine

...potential biothreat agents. EEEV and WEEV are also endemic in certain parts of the U.S., causing significant morbidity and mortality. The official title of the Ichor project is "Electroporation for Delivery of Candidate DNA Vaccines for VEEV, EEEV, and WEEV." The contract was awarded January 22, 2007. ...

Seven Polio Cases Detected in Bihar

... states like Bihar are disturbing. Polio remains endemic in just four countries now - Nigeria, India, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Source-IANS...

UN Health Agency, Partners Seek Total Eradication of Polio

...ve pledged to eradicate the polio in the last four endemic countries//. They have taken measures to sustain t...ong as needed, vaccination levels in the last four endemic countries to those that stopped the sometimes paralysing and fatal disease altogether elsewhere in t...

Incidence of Malaria Has Come Down, Says Economic Survey

...mphatic Filaria disease by 2015. In 2005, all 20 endemic states and union territories except Tamil Nadu implemented Mass Drug Administration covering around a population of 500 million. Source-IANS...

South Africa: Nigerian Man Treated for Lassa Fever

...itas hospital," said Dr Rahman. Lassa fever - is endemic in West-African countries such as Nigeria, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone but is very rarely found in South Africa. It is a viral haemorrhagic fever with symptoms that are similar to Marburg disease and malaria. Its initial symptoms include fev...

Indian Doctors Return Home from Britain, More on the Way

... early 40s. Both sexes are equally affected. It is endemic in east London, but sporadic cases can be seen all over Britain. It is mostly found in immigrants from the Indian subcontinent." His treatment for the PPUD Syndrome: "Love and a healing touch. Patients should be encouraged to go back to their home ...

India Developing Oral Vaccine to Fight Diabetes

... changing lifestyles, the disease could take on an endemic status soon. Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss had told IANS earlier that pre-clinical trials of the oral vaccine were at an advanced stage and "by the second half of 2008 there will be some reason to smile". The oral insulin vaccine has shown a ...

Hand-foot-mouth Disease Scare Causes Temporary Shut Down of Malaysian Preschools

...e taking the necessary measures. As the disease is endemic in nature, we want to prevent it from spreading. As of today, a total of 132 cases has been reported but is considered quite normal, and compared to last year in the same period; the number of cases is less. We hope the public, especially parents, wi...

World Leprosy Day – Easing Pain and Giving Hop

..., seeks to provide cure for the disease in leprosy endemic regions, and enable the patients to lead a life of...gious as cold. People living many years in leprosy endemic areas, especially where fresh cases of leprosy are detected, carry a greater risk of catching the in...

Yaws Disease - Making a Comeback After 50 Years

...had assembled experts from countries where yaws is endemic in Geneva this week to consider whether to revive the global program of 50 years ago so as to "eradicate this disease once and for all." SRI...

Sleeping Sickness Comes to India

...ndia.Sleeping sickness or Human trypanosomiases is endemic in Africa and in South America//, where it is called Chagas disease. A farmer in India, from the village of Shivani (district of Chandrapur) 140 km from Nagpur in the central State of Maharashtra, has recently been identified as the first confirmed...

Skin-Destroying Ulcer Appears in NSW as New Treatment Guidelines Emerge

... are not yet known, but Assoc Prof Johnson said in endemic areas, direct exposure to the environment and to mosquitos are risk factors for contracting the infection. “Wearing protective clothing and insect repellent appears protective,” he said. “Future research should focus on what determines why a part...

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