Oct. 25: Hyderabad district has 125 dengue cases, 62 of them confirmed, with one death.
In Ranga Reddy district, 28 cases of dengue have been reported. Though many suspected cases of chikungunya have also been reported, only one has been confirmed in Hyderabad.
Oct. 12: The panchayat raj minister, Mr Botsa Satyanarayana, asked medical and health officials, government doctors, members of district wing of Indian Medical Association and municipal commissioners to strictly implement an integrated health action plan to combat epidemics and viral fevers effectively in the district.
The Andhra Pradesh government faces its toughest task yet since the floods as it grapples with threats of outbreak of post-flood epidemics. Krishna, Kurnool, Guntur, Kadapa and Mahabubnagar districts, which were ravaged by the floods and remained underwater for six days, now face the possibility of the outbreak of cholera, malaria, diarrhoea and even plague is being feared.
Apart from the large scale destruction, the rains have brought with them the fear of an epidemic outbreak.
The 60 slums in the Bijapur city have already reported cases of H1N1 and dengue, and now the number of people suffering from fever, cold, cough, vomiting is steadily increasing.
BHAWANIPATNA: Tribals are more prone to infectious diseases due to malnutrition. An Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) bulletin said this in October 2003. In 2009 too this holds good in some of the tribal pockets of Kalahandi which are witnessing gastroenteritis and malaria in epidemic proportions.
The dengue epidemic which hit Sri Lanka last January is now under control and the death rate is zero. The number of dengue cases reported during the 36th week is only 49, the latest statistics of the Epidemiology Unit of the Healthcare and Nutrition Ministry says.
With the detection of 14 new cases on Wednesday, the total number of Swine Flu inflicted persons in the country rose to 261, of them one has died.
"Fourteen more cases have been detected today as we have tested few samples of suspected swine flu cases collecting from different hospitals in the city", IEDCR Senior Scientific Officer Dr Mushtaque Hussein told a seminar on Swine flu.
The media storm and the government action on the A(H1N1) flu are warranted, but should not steps to meet infant mortality and malnutrition become national priorities, too?
Since August 4, 2009, when the death of a girl from the A(H1N1) flu was reported in Pune, the insatiable media coverage has kept alive public interest in and fear over the epidemic.
Almost a month after the outbreak of gastroenteritis in some villages of backward Kalahandi district, claiming 38 lives so far, the Orissa government on Monday sent a team of doctors to the affected villages. The state government at the same time rejected that the outbreak had assumed epidemic proportions.
BARABANKI: The turbulent Ghaghra is finally flowing below the danger mark after causing havoc in villages on its bank. About a hundred villages falling under Fatehpur, Ramnagar and Sirauli Gauspur tehsil of the district were badly affected by recent floods caused by discharge of water from Kali and other rivers from Nepal.
