Diseases

India

Viral flight

Bird flu reported among wild migratory birds in China

Publication Date:

14/08/2005

Author(s): Kirtiman Awasthi

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Food Contamination, Health Effects, Epidemics, Birds, Environmental Science, China, Diseases

Industry

In Short

bird flu in russia: Russia's emergencies ministry declared on July 21, 2005, that the country's first case of bird flu, the strains of which can infect humans and be fatal, had been detected in a

Publication Date:

14/08/2005

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

14

Issue:

20050815

pp:

0

Tags:

Food Contamination, Floods, Birds, Bangladesh, Russia, Diseases

India

Wisdom roots

In 1992, a viral epidemic spread through the Jheelo ki Basti of Udaipur district in Rajasthan. Healthcare facilities were limited and many children died. The scourge was finally contained only with

Publication Date:

30/05/2005

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Health Care, Medicinal Plants, NGO, India, Rajasthan, Udaipur (D), Diseases

Pesticides And Toxins

Analysis of pesticide residues in blood samples from villages of Punjab

Pesticides have become integral part of villagers in Punjab. Bhatinda district in Punjab, an important cotton belt of the country irrigated by canal water grows largely cotton and rice crop

Publication Date:

01/03/2005

Author(s): & et al, H. B. Mathur, H. C. Agarwal, Sapna Johnson

Source: Centre for Science and Environment

Tags:

Pesticides, Health Effects, Blood, Acute Toxicity, Chronic Toxicity, Pesticide Residues, Punjab, Diseases

Environment

In Short

bird flu deaths: The number of human deaths from bird flu is soaring in Asia. The recent deaths of a 35-year-old woman and a 17-year-old boy in Vietnam took to nine the total number of human victims

Publication Date:

14/02/2005

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

13

Issue:

20050215

pp:

0

Tags:

Air Transport, Birds, Vietnam, Diseases

Health

State of community health at Medak district

This health study was undertaken to estimate the impact of pollution on the health of the community at Medak. Its findings show that there is an overwhelming increase in most types of systemic diseases across the study group, as compared to the control group at Medak District.

Publication Date:

01/10/2004

Source: Greenpeace India

Tags:

Health Effects, Industrial Pollution, Health, Drug Industry, Andhra Pradesh, Medak, Diseases, Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP)

India

Developing nano ambitions

Though European Union, Japan and the US account for most of nanotech research funding so far, several developing countries too nurture ambitions in the nano-world. Some of them are: taiwan:

Publication Date:

30/08/2004

Source: Down to Earth

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