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Dogs Create Panic in Pakistan City

...pital, where many people were treated. Rabies is endemic to Pakistan. While there is no exact data on the incidence of attacks, rough estimates suggest that it causes up to 5,000 deaths a year. Source-IANS...

UNICEF Provides 1,000 ITNs to Help Combat Malaria Outbreak in Jamaica

...the health ministry, the outbreak was imported and endemic malaria is not likely in Jamaica. Health officials last week said almost 160 people have been diagnosed with the disease during the outbreak. No deaths have been reported, according to Bullock-Ducasse. Source-Kaiser Family Foundation...

RVF Kills 14 in Kenya

...as flu and malaria," he said. About RVF: RVF is endemic in Africa, naturally occurring in livestock but occasionally affecting humans. Animals are infected with the RVF virus by the Aedes mosquito. The disease, characterized by bleeding from all orifices, is spread to humans in a number of ways: from i...

The Deadly Duo – Why Malaria and HIV Coexist in Afric

...is fatal for the people living in the malaria –HIV endemic areas. An insight into the ominous link; It is well known that HIV spreads when the virus level is high in the patient's blood stream. When a patient suffers malaria, the level of the virus rises seven times. This increased count of virus may be p...

The GreeneChip- First Tool to Provide Differential Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases

...ved in Angola from a country where malaria was not endemic and that he had not taken malaria prophylaxis. Had...e case presented above, more than one agent may be endemic in the region with an outbreak. Outbreaks caused by different agents may also overlap in time and ge...

India Approves Oral Drug for Treating Kala-Azar

...eady decided to introduce the drug in 10 Kala-azar endemic districts in the country and procurement of drug is under way. This information was given in the Lok Sabha today by Smt. Panabaka Lakshmi, Minister of State in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in a written reply to a question by Shri ...

Global Polio Eradication: A Campaign to Vaccinate Every Child on the Planet

...ossing the border. As a result, the polio virus is endemic on both sides of the border and no one knows which side it is living on. Each side continually reinfects the other. This happened in China when a single infected truck driver crossed the border.” Source-Newwise SRM...

Malaria: The Invincible Might of a Parasite, Nestled in a 'Mite'

... predominant in Africa, Asia and Latin America. In endemic regions, where people are susceptible to the disease, the infection is so common that people also develop gradual immunity to the disease. Yet, children and pregnant women need to be cautious, as they are prone to the infection due to reduced immunit...

India Finds New Use for an Old Bug

...istry launched a trial of the vaccine on a leprosy endemic population of 420,000 in Uttar Pradesh. Although it was a leprosy vaccine trial, the last survey in 2001 sprang a surprise: the number of new TB cases in vaccinated group was less than half of that in the unvaccinated control group. This unexpec...

Let Us All Join Government To Ban Child Labour

...gthen its schemes and projects in all child labour endemic districts all over the country. Talking about this issue, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said: the Government would take ''firm action'' against the violators. ''I appeal to the citizens, forums representing voices of all sections in the society, em...

Pakistani health officials warned not to divulge dengue statistics

... that dengue fever and dengue hemorrhagic fever is endemic in Pakistan, with occasional outbreaks reported in previous years. Dengue is more commonly found in South East Asia, but this year, it has ravaged Indian subcontinent and scores of people were hospitalised and many lives were lost to this deadly vi...

Monkey Virus Identical to HIV Endemic in Gorillas

A virus identical to HIV is endemic among wild gorillas in Africa and its source of tr...e scientists believe it is likely SIV infection is endemic in the animals. Peeters, who reported the findings in the journal Nature, said, 'We have discover...

American ‘wild’ birds identified as culpable for spreading bird fu

...n effectively assist scientists to detect virus in endemic areas. MST...

Polio Back in Kenya: WHO

... polio worldwide would depend on eradicating it in endemic nations like Nigeria, Afghanistan, India and Pakistan. WHO has reported 1,403 cases of polio this year around the world, including 1,300 from these four nations. Poliomyelitis is a viral infection that attacks the nervous system that may lead to ...

Is India Prepared to Face the Epidemics?

...oduced. And Africa, only a few hours by flight, is endemic for this virus and there is good chance of passengers with YF arriving in India. "Despite these favourable factors, YF is absent in India and it is a mystery," said Kalyan Banerjee, former director of the National Institute of Virology in Pune. He,...

Bihar Districts Affected by Black Fever

...c lifestyle and government apathy make the disease endemic to the region. // Experts running kala azar research centres in collaboration with the World Health Organisation (WHO) and working to develop affordable drugs said the entire Gangetic plains of the state are infected with kala azar. "It's affecti...

US, India Firms Develop New Cure for Black Fever

...t affected state in India is Bihar, but VL is also endemic in Jharkhand, West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh. Source-IANS...

Myanmar Declares Herself As A Country Free of Bird flu

...llance programme against the disease that had been endemic in many parts of Asia. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) had announced that it has noted Yangon's declaration. Laurence Gleeson, head of the FAO's bird flu centre in Bangkok, said, “FAO will continue to manage international donor sup...

Indonesia To Conduct Mass Vaccination Of Poultry

... precedence for controlling the H5N1 virus that is endemic in birds in 29 of the country's 33 provinces. Zulkarnain Hassan, the coordinator for the Avian Influenza Crisis Center at the agriculture ministry, has said that they plan to vaccinate 60 million poultry nationwide in the next 3 months before Decem...

Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever hits Turkey

... animal disease, but can also affect humans. It is endemic in parts of Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe and is transmitted by ticks, which thrive on sheep and cattle. The disease affects mainly farm and slaughterhouse workers in the livestock industry as they come in contact with the virus. Droplets from sne...

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