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Chronic Wasting Disease In Alberta

...ond phase it will move to Wainwright area which is south of Lloydminster. Helicopters will be used to collect deer this time beside the ground team. JYT...

Chikungunya Make a Comeback in Kolkata

A man from a south Kolkata neighbourhood tested positive for the chikungunya virus earlier this week.// However the patient ceased to show symptoms of the disease after a few days, according to official sources Saturday. Shakil Khan, a resident of Prince Ghulam Moham...

Weather Forecasts Spring Pollen Allergy Severity

..., trees can produce pollen as early as January (in south and west Texas cedar pollination will begin around Christmas time in December), while pollen production usually begins in April in the north. Grasses usually come along to stir up allergy symptoms after the trees are through pollinating – typicall...

Bird Flu Reappears in Vietnam

...break at a duck farm in Vinh Long province, 140 km south of Ho Chi Minh City, followed the reappearance of the virus in northern Vietnam. Nearly 70 ducks were found dead at a farm in Vinh Long province last weekend and tests results this week showed they were positive for the H5N1 avian influenza virus, ...

Chinese Province Offers Free Treatment to HIV/AIDS Patients

...Yunnan, bordering Vietnam, Laos and Myanmar in the south and west and near the notorious "Golden Triangle", has China's worst HIV/AIDS figures. HIV/AIDS cases have been found in all of the province's 129 counties, according to the provincial health bureau. The province had 48,591 people living with HIV/A...

AMSA Hosts International Health Conference

...neral Assembly is being held in Mandurah, one hour south of Perth, from the 7th to the 13th of March. Source-AM SRM...

UCI Scientists Reconstruct Migration of Avian Flu Virus

...ve spread to other provinces and countries. To the south in nearby Indochina, the strains appear largely limited to dispersal among local areas. Genetic sequences the scientists analyzed suggest that parallel evolution of different H5N1 strains lets the virus infect and cycle through different host speci...

Well-known Kerala Actor, Mohanlal, Turns AIDS Activist

The popular south Indian Actor, Mohanlal, who has built an enviable reputation in the Malayalam movie industry, has decided to take// up a cause that is close to his heart- AIDS. Mohanlal will be the goodwill ambassador for the Kerala State Aids Control Society. In ...

Researchers Study Health of New Zealand's Indian Community

...of food, nutrition and human health, who said that south Asian women are known to have a higher predisposition to developing health conditions such as cardiovascular disease and diabetes. According to the latest census, the Indian population has gone up from 60,000 in 2001 to more than 107,000 in 2006. ...

Mom's Food to Replace Junk Food in Schools

...a, principal of Delhi Public School, R.K. Puram in south Delhi said that healthy food should be encouraged among children. Similarly, principal of Holy Child School, Tagore Garden, said: 'We encourage children to bring home cooked food which is more nutritious and healthy.' Source-IANS...

External Affairs Minister Taken to Army Hospital in Delhi

...West Bengal hospital, reached the army hospital in south Delhi at around 12.40 p.m. and was wheeled in immediately. The army will be issuing a statement on his health condition later, hospital officials said. The 72-year-old Congress leader was injured at Bethuadahari, about 130 km from Kolkata in Nadia ...

Ray of Hope for Women on Motherhood Day

...ing centers for pregnant women in Badarpur area of south Delhi to mark National Safe Motherhood Day this year. Girls from the area will also stage street plays on the basic theme of safe motherhood. Source-IANS...

India's Water Availability Will Decline by 2050

...substantial losses are likely in rain fed wheat in south and southeast Asia. "For example, 0.5 degree Celsius rise in winter temperature would reduce wheat yield by 0.45 tonnes per hectares in India," Pachauri said adding that the average yield of wheat per hectares in India is 2.6 tonnes. The report a...

Kuwait Reports New Case of Birdflu in Ostrich

... case of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu in the south of the Gulf Arab state near the Saudi border.// "We now have 46 infected focal points after the latest finding in an ostrich in Wafra," said health ministry spokesman Ahmed al-Shatti. "We no longer count individual cases. We concentrate on focal ...

NRI Doctor Protests Patient's Death in Kolkata Hospital

...rick lived alone at his Picnic Garden residence in south Kolkata, his neighbours had raised Rs.2,000 and got him admitted to the intensive care unit of the hospital. His death sparked a big controversy on whether any hospital management can stop providing medical services to a patient, even if his bills ...

NRI Brings to India Effective Pain Relief Therapy

...s available in a clinic that Kashyap has set up in south Delhi, called CirQcare. The cost of 12 sittings is around Rs.6,000. According to Yadav, 15 sittings of 30 minutes each could relieve ankle injury up to 90 percent. Ravi Sawhney, an advisor at Kashyap's CirQcare clinic, said they were organising c...

India to Protect Its Forests With the Aid of Austrian NGO

...f the High Capacity Bus Service (HCBS) Corridor in south Delhi, he simply waved it off saying: "Some trees must have been removed but these numbers are wide off the mark." Source-IANS/V...

12 Deer Die of Pneumonia in Tripura Zoo

... the zoo's wildlife warden. The sanctuary, 25 km south of here, is home to about 1,050 animals belonging to 46 different species. An estimated 415 spotted deer reside in the zoo, established in 1972. "Samples of the dead deer have been sent to the Guwahati Veterinary College for further investigations,...

Useful Parasites

...ies more than 20 years ago, now it has spread from south to north. Earlier the parasite was s seen to decrease the fertility of the infected host by 15 to 20% under lab condition. But now after the laborious research it was found that there is a boost of 10% in fertility among the infected host. We jus...

Child Vaccines a Key Issue for OIC Forum in Malaysia

...laysia and will be officially launched on Thursday south of Kuala Lumpur. The inaugural meeting comes as OIC countries try to become self-reliant in developing and producing vaccines deemed "halal", or permissible under Islam, a topic expected to be a major focus of the conference. Under the concept of ...

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