Overcrowding in hospitals, malnutrition, unhygienic tropical environs heighten problem in India

Fungal infections kill close to 1.3 million people globally every year, matching the mortality rate of AIDS, cancer, malaria and tuberculosis, and also cause blindness to 300 million people annually.

In State, 40,000 Contracted Infection, 67 Died Between January And November Last Year

Pune: Not just dengue, but malaria too has claimed a sizable number of lives in the state last year. As per the latest report of the state health department, as many as 40,000 people contracted the mosquito-borne infection, and 67 of them succumbed to it between January and November, 2013.

The fight against malaria has saved 3.3 million lives worldwide since 2000 but the mosquito-borne disease still killed 627,000 people last year, mainly children in Africa, the World Health Organiza

Following the recent outbreak of water–borne diseases like malaria, jaundice, typhoid in certain pockets of the newly created Longding district which reportedly claimed more than hundred lives, a s

The Arunachal Pradesh government has sounded alert in Longding district following outbreak of malaria and jaundice which, has taken an epidemic form claiming scores of lives since past several days

Pune has registered a whopping 741 cases of dengue this year so far. September and October have seen the highest number of cases at 126 and 133 respectively.

Pune: At a time when dengue has proved to be a major health concern for the city, other mosquito-borne diseases like malaria and chikungunya have kept the civic administration on its toes.

Dip in the temperature has not resulted in decrease in dengue and malaria cases, but doctors say compared to last year, there has been a slight increase in the number of patients, especially for de