Pakistan should implement already existing anti-tobacco laws to protect people from the tobacco epidemic, especially as the country has signed the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control - requiring signatories to post "health warnings describing the harmful effects of tobacco use" on cigarette packets and recommending that pictures form part of the warnings.
The number of dengue victims and deaths from Dengue Haemorrhagic Fever (DHF) continued to rise to epidemic proportions, with 75 deaths and approximately 5,500 patients reported island wide up to yesterday.
The city residents are vulnerable to floods during monsoon and epidemics, as Capital Development Authority (CDA) releases untreated sewage into Leh Nullah, said Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA) Managing Director (MD) Col (R) Islamul Haq on Thursday.
The number of dengue cases rose by three hundred as the Health Ministry in collaboration with the Colombo Municipal Council and the Public Service Nurses
SriLankan Airlines has implemented a series of precautionary measures in response to the threat posed by the A(H1N1) Swine Flu, to protect its passengers and prevent the spread of the disease.
The vaccine industry is waiting for a WHO decision on whether to keep making regular flu vaccine, or whether to switch to vaccines for the current swine flu outbreak.
The flu outbreak may be winding down in Mexico and causing fewer deaths than feared, but health officials now fear that a more virulent version will return to kill millions.
The World Health Organization (WHO) this week remained on the verge of declaring a pandemic of the H1N1 swine-associated flu
virus. Public-health bodies and scientists have made progress in starting to understand the outbreak, but major questions remain about how severe the disease will get.
