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Viral Epidemic In Gujarat

... The floods have also affected Surat, a city in south Gujarat, with 63 cases being reported so far with similar symptoms. Health officials have asked people not to visit crowed places and to clean stagnant water. Meanwhile, the death of two people from Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome (HPS) had led to p...

Surat Declared Free of Hantavirus

...e flood ravaged city of Surat, 250 km from here in south Gujarat.// Additional director of NIV, M.S. Chaddha said: "NIV collected 46 blood samples from Surat city, and not even a single sample contained Hantavirus." The medical authorities in Surat, including NIV, have not yet clarified why two persons...

Egypt Prepares for a Bird Flu Outbreak

...e Sohag province, some 490 kilometers or 305 miles south of Cairo. Following this report all poultry on the farm were slaughtered and tests are underway to check that none of the people who had been in contact with the infected animals have been infected themselves. According to Health Minister Hatem Al...

Delhi Gears up to Fight Chikungunya Fever

... capital, including one from Moolchand Hospital in south Delhi. Experts said the Chikungunya virus is spread by the bite of female Aedes mosquitoes, primarily Aedes Aegypti and humans are considered to be the major reservoir of the virus. "Since, dengue is very common in Delhi, people should not feel s...

AIDS Cases In Sudan Increasing

People in south Sudan are at a higher risk of developing HIV/AIDS,...ern. "The challenge is how to reduce the danger in south Sudan. He adds the government would conduct HIV/AIDS tests at reception camps of returning refugees ...

Ministry Cites Negligence as Cause of Kazakh baby HIV cases

...ne adult with the HIV virus. In a hospital in the south of the Central Asian state the children, and a mother, have been infected in the past few months. Officials are searching for over a dozen donors suspected of giving infected blood. The ministry spokesman Moris Abdulin said, "All our working groups...

Abolish Car Parking Charges at Welsh Hospitals, says BMA Cymru Wales

...travel to Birmingham and Manchester, and some from south Wales travel to Frenchay, Bristol, and Great Ormond Street, London) be issued with some sort of permit/ voucher to cover their parking costs. Peter Cardy, Macmillan Cancer Support’s Chief Executive, says: "Missing an appointment is not an option fo...

Food Poisoning Kills Nine at Chhattisgarh Relief Camp

...lage in the Maoist insurgency-hit district, 560 km south of Raipur. "A group of 50 tribals brought rotten fish from a local pond and ate it on Saturday. While seven people died late Sunday, two more died on Monday," Dantewada District Collector K.R. Pisda told IANS. "At least 27 tribals, including 17 w...

Bird Flu Claims One More Victim in Indonesia

...f infection, 71. The latest victim was a boy from south Jakarta who was reported to have had contact with infected birds. He was hospitalized following identification of bird flu like symptoms; last Thursday, and died Saturday evening. In Indonesia backyard poultry is an important source of food for the ...

LA County gives Approval for Reform Plan for King-Drew Medical Center

...ital had long been a symbol of renewal for an area south of downtown that was plagued by poverty and gang violence. Over the last two years, however its reputation was marred by patient deaths blamed on sloppy nursing care and its medical school was accused of poor training. A plan to hand over the hospit...

Diabetes II May Be Controlled By Sanofi's New Obesity Pill

... obese patients with type 2 diabetes in Europe and south and North America. Some of them were given 5 or 20 mg/day of rimonabant, while the others were treated with a placebo, for a 1 year period. Those on the drug showed a vast improvement in terms of weight loss, abdominal fat and waist size reduction ...

Superbug C.difficile Causes Nine Deaths In Montreal Hospital

Honore-Mercier hospital in St.Hyacinthe, 65 km south east of Montreal has had an outbreak of Clostridium difficile related diarrhoea which is still to be contained// . 22 patients ,elderly people who had other ailments as well have been affected. The infection has been linked to the death of nine p...

A Timely Reminder Of Devastating Health Impact Of Climate Change

...that dengue fever transmission could extend as far south as Sydney. Dr Haikerwal said human health ultimately depends on having a healthy environment to sustain us. “Climate change is the biggest environmental and health challenge of our time. “We need leadership from our governments with the support...

Delhi journalism student commits suicide

...udent committed suicide by shooting herself at her south Delhi home, police said Sunday.// Mrinalini was alone at home in the upmarket Hauz Khas area Saturday evening when she shot herself, said a police official. She is the daughter of Vijendra Rai, additional director general of Haryana Police. Polic...

Dengue Epidemic Threatens Pakistan

...claimed 35 lives across //Pakistan especially from south province Sindh & northwest frontier Peshawar. A local media reported on Thursday that around 1,400 patients out of 3640 have been declared positive for dengue virus. They were admitted to hospitals across the country. Moreover 197 – dengue positive...

Egypt reports fresh bird flu infection

...new infection was discovered in Luxor, some 680 km south of Cairo. Tests on domestic birds at the city's Najaa al-Abayda Lab turned up positive for the H5N1 virus, said the ministry's spokesman Abdel-Rahman Shahin. The area has been quarantined and the birds were being culled, he said. On Oct 30, an Eg...

New Bird Flu Cases Suspected In South Korea

...pically pass through the Korean peninsula, heading south for the winter from places like Russia, Kazakhstan and Mongolia. Around 400,000 poultry at South Korean farms were reported for bird flu cases between December 2003 and March 2004 and now preventive measures are being strengthened in Kim said Seoul...

South Korea Plans To Destroy Cats And Dogs To Prevent Bird Flu

...ius of the outbreak site in Iksan, about 155 miles south of Seoul yesterday after confirming the outbreak. They had planned to slaughter a total of 236,000 poultry, six million eggs, and unspecified number of other animals including pigs, dogs and cats in the area by Thursday, the ministry said. Though, ...

A Major HIV Outbreak in Kazakhstan

...hymkent, a city about 1,600 kilometers (990 miles) south of the capital Astana. It is not yet clear how the woman got infected, but it is believed to have resulted by blood transfusion from unchecked donors or contaminated needles. This has been found to be the cause for infection in 81 children, most of...

Indian MPs to Attend AIDS Conference in Lahore

...ention and budgetary allocation to fight it in the south Asian countries." At the conclusion of the conference, the parliamentarians would finalise a "Lahore Declaration" and send it to the governments of the member countries. Source-IANS...

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