Preventable diseases like diarrhoea, skin infections and conjunctivitis are still among the top 10 diseases in Bhutan, according to the annual health bulletin (AHB), 2009.
At least two lakh people, most of them indigenous in over 100 remote villages under eight upazilas in the hill district, are suffering for want of drinking water. The crisis becomes acute in dry season as most water sources dry up.
The diarrhoea situation in the city remains unchanged for more than one month, while the situation in 48 districts across the country has also worsened by this time.
Though during pre-monsoon season, the ICDDR,B normally experiences some 400 to 450 patients every day, this time it has been receiving more than 800 patients every day that crossed 1,000 on April 11.
The diarrhoea situation in the city remains unchanged for more than one month, while the situation in 48 districts across the country has also worsened by this time.
Though during pre-monsoon season, the ICDDR,B normally experiences some 400 to 450 patients every day, this time it has been receiving more than 800 patients every day that crossed 1,000 on April 11.
Diarrhoea, which has broken out in alarming proportions in Dhaka, has claimed the life of a six-year-old girl and afflicted more than 700 others till 5:00pm on Sunday.
The ICDDR,B received 908 patients on Saturday, 775 on Friday and 899 on Thursday.
Diarrhoea outbreak has taken a serious turn in the capital as the number of patients suffering from the waterborne disease continues to increase.
Some 728 patients were admitted yesterday to the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease and Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B), doctors said in the evening. Three of them were brought dead to the hospital.
In just about every major contaminated food scare, Minnesotans become sick by the dozens while few people in Kentucky and other states are counted among the ill.
In Kentucky, a county health worker called Lauren Threlkeld only to verify that she had fallen ill in another county.
About 13,847 were afflicted by diarrhoea and at least five people died in the country in the past seven days due to lack of pure drinking water and consumption of stale and contaminated food, said sources at the Directorate-General of Health Services
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B) has been experiencing excessive pressure of the patients suffering from diarrhoeal diseases since last month.
Though the rush of patients was reduced a bit, it has augmented further since last Friday.
Davis, California: University of California scientists say they have found a way to combat intestinal diseases in the developing world through a type of enhanced goat milk.
A decade ago, UC Davis researchers discovered a way to transfer a human gene into goats so they would produce a high concentration of an enzyme that fights diarrhea causing bacteria.
