The tragedy in Gorakhpur, in which more than 60 children aged 12 and below died over the course of 5 days has received international media attention. There are calls for the resignation of many of those deemed responsible. Oxygen supplies dwindled because the supplier company was not paid, according to reports. This led to the …
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South Indian states are experiencing a considerable spike in cases of dengue fever compared to figures from last year. The Directorate of National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme (NVBDCP) recorded 28,702 cases of dengue fever in India from the start of the year until July 30. The total dengue cases for the same period in …
Fears that the Zika virus could continue to spread in India are increasing. A fourth case of the virus has been detected in the state of Tamil Nadu. What’s noteworthy – and perhaps concerning – about the case is that the infected individual was uncovered not by national surveillance programmes, but by a Manipal University …
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Hospitals are home to some of the most vulnerable in society: the sick and the elderly. What if these hospitals are putting these vulnerable people at risk of potentially more deadly conditions than they arrived with? This is currently the case in many hospitals in Lucknow, where the hospitals themselves have become breeding grounds for …
In the fight against malaria and other mosquito-borne diseases, could drones be the answer? Shankar Chaudhary, the Health Minister for Gujarat, seems to think so. At an event in May to launch an anti-malaria campaign in the state, he said “the mosquito is a terrorist…a silent killer.” To this end, the minister suggested, “we should …
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New strategies are being developed as a method of reducing mosquito-borne disease. India is seizing this newly researched technology as a means of reducing dengue fever as well as potentially other viral diseases spread via Aedes aegypti. The research can be broken down into two sections: detection and prevention. Detection In order to adequately combat …
A new outbreak of Japanese encephalitis killed several scores of children in the eastern state of Odisha in 2016. The Japanese Encephalitis Virus (JEV) is a mosquito-borne flavivirus which has a particularly impactful presence in Asia, where it is the leading cause of viral encephalitis. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that there are 68,000 …
The most prevalent mosquito-borne diseases occurring in India are malaria, dengue fever, and chikungunya. Though distributions and severity of each disease vary considerably. It is worth noting that despite high concentrations of each disease in specific regions, due to rainy seasons mosquitos are capable of spreading across the vast majority of India, with only a …
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