The first record of a case of probable dengue fever is in a Chinese medical encyclopedia from the Jin Dynasty (255-420 AD) which referred to a

G Saravanan

The next time you hear that familiar, nasty buzz near your ears, you can safely assume that you're not in Chennai. How else do you interpret the recent data collected by the Chennai Corporation on mosquito density?

LUCKNOW: Even as the suspected dengue patients continued to pour in in city hospitals on Wednesday, the health officials prayed for the early onset of the winters to save them from the disgrace of not being able to tackle the huge pressure.

LUCKNOW: Even as around three dozen more suspected dengue cases, including around 12 in government hospitals, were reported in the city on Tuesday, confusion prevailed over the diagnostic test for confirmation of the disease.

While the Trauma Centre, medicine ward and the paediatrics emergency ward of Chhatrapati Shahuji Maharaj Medical University (CSMMU) was overburdened with the patients, sev

There has been decline in the number of malaria cases this year claim Health authorities in Chandigarh.

Talking to the media on Wednesday, Director of Health and Family Welfare, Dr M S Bains, said till August, the department collected 56,989 slides of blood against 53,083 during the corresponding period of 2009.

Doctors insist chikungunya is not as big a concern as malaria, but as many as 22 people have tested positive for chikungunya this monsoon and admitted in hospitals across the city.

The number of people going in for tests has risen to around 150 from last year

New Delhi: The city reported 95 confirmed cases of dengue on Tuesday, taking the total number of people infected with the mosquito-borne disease to 3,108.
South Delhi continues to be the worst affected area with 446 cases this season, followed by the Civil Lines zone (401) and Rohini zone (363).
MCD officials said fogging operations have been intensified across the city, especially in th

Around 25 companies have pooled in Rs2 crore for the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation

Jamshedpur/Ranchi, Sept.

Dumka, Sept. 27: At least six persons have tested positive for dengue in the past week, claim private pathologists and doctors here.

All six exhibited symptoms of the disease after arriving from dengue-affected places like Delhi and Ranchi. However, Dumka civil surgeon S.N. Jha and district malaria officer P.P.