In Kolkata city the road transports are maintained by private and Government organization. A major work force belonged to the State Transport Corporation (KSTC), Government of West-Bengal. The pollution caused by these vehicles affects the workers health and caused different types of respiratory problems.

sars (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) is here to stay. So countries are now applying for patents on the sars virus . The ones seriously trying to cash in are the us Centers for Disease

toxic taint: Green Indian seedless grapes have been taken off supermarket shelves in Belgium following the detection of high levels of pesticide residues in the product in the Netherlands recently.

New visitors to Toronto, if any, cannot be blamed if they think the city has become a ghost town. Tourists are likely to be greeted by empty shops and streets, with hotels offering high discounts to

Is the crisis spawned by this new viral infection a failure of global health governance?

Several strains of influenza or flu have been named after Guangdong province, where the first sars cases surfaced. This dubious distinction stems from the agricultural practices prevalent in the

Between March 25 and 27, 2003, two different groups of researchers in the cdc and Hong Kong University announced that a previously unrecognised coronavirus could have caused the sars epidemic.