Doctors suspect virus could have mutated

The ghost of Influenza A (H1N1) which spooked the State three years ago has returned to haunt it again. The State Health and Family Welfare Department has said that the disease has killed three persons since January 2012.

Children used to feasting on burgers, chips, colas and instant noodles will now be in distress. The UP government has sent a letter to all schools — ICSE, CBSE as well as UP Board — to ban sale of junk food within their premises and outside it with immediate effect.

The letter has been issued on instructions received by the Union health and family planning ministry.

AHMEDABAD: The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has come down hard on the state government over water pollution.

Denting the green image of Gujarat, CAG, in its 2011-12 'civil' report, claimed that there is an "upward trend" in the incidence of water-borne diseases due to heavily polluted water sources. It cited South Gujarat as the worst case, where industrial clusters like Vapi and Ankleshwar and Nandesari near Vadodara have been blamed for violating pollution control norms and discharging untreated waste.

Delhi-based NGO Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has alleged that leading food manufacturers are guilty of “large scale misbranding and misinformation” by claiming that their food products

Tripura has been declared ‘malaria prone’ following the detection of 346 positive cases of Plasmodium Falciparum (PF) in the State during the last one month, official sources said on Thursday.

Health minister Tapan Chakraborty said that medical experts have advised the State government to use second generation drugs instead of traditional medicines to prevent malaria.

The percentage of MDR in new TB cases in India is 2.1

India had an estimated 63,000 cases of notified multi-drug resistant Tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in 2010, the highest in the South East Asia region, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said.

IMPHAL: Hepatitis B positive has taken the scale of an epidemic in the tribal villages of Tamenglong district. At least one teenaged girl has died and 17 others have been shifted to the hospital.

The disease was reported from Marangching and some other villages around Noney. The prevalence of the disease was noticed by a team of 10 doctors who had conducted a medical check up. The official reports said that a 18-year old girl, Abisha Gangmei, daughter of Phamnamsom Gangmei of Marangching village had died of this disease on March 18.