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India Has The Oldest And Largest Collection Of Preserved Mosquitoes – Mosquito Museu

...high malaria deaths in India. India has faced huge epidemics and death due to malaria, in which 30,000 people were killed in 1918 in Northern Amristar. Malaria epidemic has killed more than 10,000 people between 1993 and 2003. Though the deaths related to malaria has dramatically reduced but still a lot has to...

Strategies to prevent the rising tide of the epidemic of chronic diseases

...icle concludes on the note that as chronic disease epidemics gather pace in India and threaten harm to individuals, families, and the society at large, a comprehensive strategy for their prevention and control is needed. Some of the efforts, such as control programmes for tobacco use and cancer need to be upsc...

A Vaccine for the impending pandemic Avian Influenza

...es of the type A, including those causing seasonal epidemics of human influenza//, are genetically labile and well adapted to elude host defenses. The tendency of influenza viruses to undergo frequent and permanent antigenic changes necessitates constant monitoring of the global influenza situation and annual ...

Medical Fraternity Urged To Revamp Indian Healthcare

...nd the incidence of easily controlled diseases and epidemics are unfortunately among the worst in the world." "I request all those connected with the planning of health services in our country, those who are in the government, those who are health policy planners, AIIMS and the medical fraternity on the task...

Water Borne Diseases causing More Havoc in Mumbai

... been approximately a total of eight major cholera epidemics worldwide. Today our understanding of water borne diseases is better,hence, we have managed to a large extent, to curtail further epidemics. However, whenever there is a calamity like the recent floods in Maharastra and other parts of the country,...

New Tools To Identify Flu Strains

...nds of virus. The Influenza Type A and B can cause epidemics and may be fatal. These can be contained through flu vaccines available worldwide. The third type, or the type C causes mild respiratory infections coupled with fever and subsides in a few days. This is generally treated symptomatically and is not fa...

New diseases require holistic outlook to treatment

...f US have suggested that instead of tackling these epidemics from the standpoint of individual countries that are being affected, they should be tackled with a common health program for the entire world. The scientists of the department who had conducted the study had said that the emerging diseases have the...

Identifying The Risks Of Developing Schizophrenia

...y looking at people who were born during major flu epidemics -- leaving room for error. Researchers used stored blood from mothers who gave birth between 1959 and 1966 to test for the presence of influenza during the pregnancies. The study involved 64 people diagnosed with schizophrenia and 125 healthy people...

Diabetes, obesity rates shooting up

...f diabetes associated with it. One reason for the epidemics of both obesity and diabetes is clear - people do not exercise nearly enough. The report finds that 28 percent of women 18 and older and nearly 22 percent of men say they get little or no exercise at home, work or in their leisure time. Just 21 per...

Syphilis uncovered

...and treatments.// Syphilis once caused widespread epidemics and is still a major cause of illness and death around the world. People with syphilis lesions are also at higher risk of HIV infection.Syphilis can be treated with injections of penicillin or other antibiotics. In addition, the disease is difficult...

Smallpox Would Spread Rapidly

...isease spread would fall. Nonetheless, significant epidemics could result, particularly if there were delays in detecting the first cases or in setting up effective public health interventions. In the US, Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson announced plans to buy as many as 300 million doses o...

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