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Dengue Cases in West Bengal Reaches 400 Mark

...o official figures, about 1,500 people in about 15 villages in Baduria and Swarupnagar are down with fever. Official sources said more than 1,200 blood samples were sent to Pune for tests. Chikungunya was first reported in Bengal 43 years ago. Early this month, city mayor Bikash Bhattacharya had said that...

500 People Affected by Gas Leak Near Bhopal

...00 people in Kirat Nagar, Mendua and Nayapara Tola villages complained of vomiting and burning sensation in th...ople from the neighbouring Raisen district's three villages were immediately brought to Bhopal's J.P. Hospital for treatment and discharged after first aid, inc...

Food Poisoning Kills Nine at Chhattisgarh Relief Camp

... of people had started returning to their forested villages since early Tuesday. There were reported rumours of an epidemic having spread in the camp. About 4,000 tribals have settled at the Injeram camp for the past one year as they face threats from Maoist rebels after the tribals launched a civil militia...

Health Officials Investigating Plausible Chikungunya Outbreak in Bengal villages

West Bengal- Four villages belonging to West Bengal’s North 24, parganas District, is reeling under the onslaught of a ‘puzzling’ fever, which has affected nearly 2000 people.// The symptoms point towards a possible Chikungunya outbreak. District Chief Medical Officer, Kusu...

Trachoma not Curable by Antibiotics Alone

... to eye contact. Unhygienic conditions in the poor villages of Asia and Africa have kept the bacteria on a rampage. Almost quarter of the older people who are affected will probably face blindness. The WHO strategy to combat trachoma is four pronged. They are-antibiotic therapy, surgery to prevent the inv...

Chronic Diseases Rampant In Rural India

...stic Product (GDP) by 2015. The study involved 45 villages in East and West Godavari Districts of Andhra Prad...with a population of more than 180,000. Whilst the villages enrolled in this study are more developed than many rural regions in India, the results are seen to ...

Bihar Districts Affected by Black Fever

...th kala azar. "It's affecting the poor people in villages who can't afford treatment. The geographic location, poverty, bad hygiene and lack of a definite plan by the government are contributing heavily to the growth of the disease," said T.K. Jha, medical director of one of the two kala azar research centr...

Spurt in Malaria, Dengue Cases in Rajasthan

...e mobile teams were treating patients in the 2,469 villages of the 12 recently flood affected districts besides others. Source-IANS...

Compulsory Rural Stint for Doctors: Ramadoss

...als, ensure proper immunisation of children in the villages under their charge and promote use of indoor toilet facilities. Instead of a regular salary, the 227,000 ASHAS would receive incentive-based monthly remuneration, Ramadoss said. For the safer motherhood programme, the government has decided to ...

Breast Feeding - The Key in Fighting Child Mortality in Africa

...ject conducted by field workers in remote Ghanaian villages has revealed that breast feeding babies with in an hour of being born could almost guarantee the life of the baby. A delay of even one day from the mother’s breast could more than double the child risks of dying within a month. In addition early intr...

Door-to-door Visits to Check Water-borne and Seasonal Diseases in Rajasthan

... "The mobile teams are treating patients in 2,469 villages of the 12 affected districts," he told IANS. The teams are touring nearly 544 villages everyday. Bhargava said district collectors have been authorised to hire retired and the private d...

India To Ask Villagers To Practice Safe Sex

...s are afoot to bring 20,000 out of India's 640,000 villages in this scheme. RAS...

US, India Firms Develop New Cure for Black Fever

...erapies. Since VL afflicts many people in remote villages and regions that lack a strong healthcare infrastructure, OneWorld Health will initiate a Phase IV pilot access programme in Bihar to facilitate the introduction of Paromomycin IM Injection in these settings. To support its work with partners in Indi...

Haryana to set up 'Red Ribbon Clubs' in Colleges to Create Awareness about AIDS

...f the National Service Scheme. Kartar Devi said villages and urban slums would be allocated to each club to educate people about causes and preventive measures of HIV/AIDS. Members of these clubs would also help in checking professional blood donors, she added. The minister said 22 integrated counselin...

Egypt Prepares for a Bird Flu Outbreak

...andom samples would be taken from birds in various villages and farms so that the disease may be contained. Al-Jabali warned against inappropriate slaughter of birds and advised those concerned to take all necessary preventive measures in this. Egypt reported the last human case of H5N1 last May and out of...

Ducks Culled As They Test Positive For H5N1 Virus

...e virus. The official said that no one in nearby villages was sick from the disease and added that the source of the virus was unknown. The country has been free of human bird flu cases since December even though new outbreaks of the deadly H5N1 virus has been reported in the neighboring countries of Laos,...

Culling of 2,000 fowls in Indonesia

...f mass culling was made after many chickens in the villages of Cigadong and Cijambe tested positive for bird flu. According to Andi, this mass culling is to be done on 27th and 28th August. Previously, around 3,528 fowls were killed. Totally, 5,528 birds would have been killed. He said that after the depo...

Class 4 literacy to be attained by a Kerala village

...lanning to replicate this programme in three other villages in the state. "Once we finish the examination we plan to start the next phase, which is for Class 7. All those who are interested can participate," said Shoukat, who is the son of top Congress legislator Aryadan Mohammed. Source: IANS...

Good Morning! "Have Safe Sex Please"

...ciety. The papers were sent around to more than 50 villages and two towns in the area. Andhra is the worst affected state in the country. There were nearly oine million HIV cases in 2005, according to the National Aids Control Organization. A recent study indicated that there was a 25 to 28 percent increase...

The Aids Programme In Zambia Reported As A Success

...eas. Stringer said, 'There are no secrets in these villages and everyone knows somebody is supposed to be taking the medicines. The idea of losing someone to follow-up in a village is unheard of.'...

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