Purba Champaran

Emergence of Orientia tsutsugamushi as an important cause of Acute Encephalitis Syndrome in India

Acute encephalitis syndrome (AES) is a dreaded disease in India including the state of Bihar. Every year several people specially children, succumb to this disease and often the survivors are left with permanent residual disorders. The present research throws light on specific etiological agents that may cause AES and have found scrub typhus to be an important etiology.

Publication Date:

28/03/2018

Author(s): Parul Jain, Shantanu Prakash, Piyush K. Tripathi & et al

Source: PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

pp:

1-14

Tags:

Encephalitis, Muzaffarpur (D), Sitamarhi (D), Sheohar (D), Purba Champaran, Bihar, India, Vector Borne Diseases, Child Health

Environment

Mall wake-up call for temple's eco nod

Patna: Construction work of the Virat Ramayan Mandir, coming up near Kesariya in East Champaran district around 130km north of Patna and billed as the world's largest Hindu temple, has not yet star

Publication Date:

12/01/2018

Source: Times Of India (Patna)

Tags:

Bihar, Environment Clearance (EC), Purba Champaran, National Green Trbunal (NGT), Environment

Natural Disasters

Floods grim in 7 districts, Ganga & Burhi Gandak still in spate

Patna: The death toll in the floods in the state increased to 72, but the situation slightly eased on Wednesday.

Publication Date:

17/08/2017

Source: Times Of India (Patna)

Tags:

Bihar, Floods, Ganga, Burhi Gandak, Sitamarhi (D), Paschim Champaran, Purba Champaran, Katihar (D), Sheohar (D), Flood Relief, Natural Disasters

Natural Disasters

Bihar on flood alert as rain pounds northern districts

Following heavy rains in catchment areas in Nepal and in the border districts, the State government has issued flood warning for districts of north Bihar where the major rivers are in spate.

Publication Date:

19/07/2016

Author(s): Amarnath Tewary

Source: Hindu (New Delhi)

Tags:

Bihar, Floods, Rainfall, Nepal, Kosi, Gandak, Ganga, Paschim Champaran, Purba Champaran, Bhagalpur (D), Disaster Management, Natural Disasters

Health

DDT-based indoor residual spraying suboptimal for visceral leishmaniasis elimination in India

Indoor residual spraying (IRS) is used to control visceral leishmaniasis (VL) in India, but it is poorly quality assured. Quality assurance was performed in eight VL endemic districts in Bihar State, India, in 2014. Residual dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) was sampled from walls using Bostik tape discs, and DDT concentrations [grams of active ingredient per square meter (g ai/m2)] were determined using HPLC. Pre-IRS surveys were performed in three districts, and post-IRS surveys were performed in eight districts.

Publication Date:

01/07/2015

Author(s): Michael Coleman, Geraldine M. Foster, Rinki Deb & et al

Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

pp:

1-6

Tags:

Kala Azar, Vector Borne Diseases, DDT, Bihar, India, Vector Control, Insecticide, Begusarai (D), Gopalganj (D), Khagaria (D), Paschim Champaran, Patna (D), Purba Champaran, Saharsa (D), Samastipur (D)

Health

Acute encephalitis syndrome spreads to East Champaran, devours 8 kids

Acute encephalitis syndrome (AES) has spread in 30 villages under ten blocks of East Champaran district during the last one fortnight.

Publication Date:

13/06/2014

Author(s): Chandra Bhushan Pandey

Source: Times Of India (Patna)

Tags:

Bihar, Purba Champaran, Encephalitis, Child Health, Health Effects, Diseases, Health

Water Supply

11 children ill after drinking water in Bihar school

Eleven children fell ill Tuesday after drinking water from a handpump at a school in Bihar's East Champaran district, officials said. All were reported out of danger after basic treatment.

Publication Date:

05/03/2014

Source: Bihar Times (Bihar)

Tags:

Bihar, Children, Drinking Water, Purba Champaran, Water Quality, Health

Habitat And Urbanisation