Medicos in the national Capital have expressed apprehensions that the Capital may experience a dengue pandemic during the Commonwealth Games. According to sources, in a recent review of the Commonwealth Games health plan, a panel of doctors has said that dengue might take the form of an epidemic during the Games.

Surinder Sud / New Delhi April 05, 2010, 0:29 IST

Climate change has begun to affect human health, leading to a rise in cases related to stomach ailments and vector-borne diseases like malaria and dengue. This has been indicated in a report in the recent bulletin of the World Health Organisation (WHO).

A growing body of scientific evidence strongly suggests that climate change has enormous and diverse effects on
human health. Rises in temperature and sea level & extreme weather events such as floods cause water logging & contamination, which in turn exacerbate diarrhoeal diseases.

BALASORE: A five-year-old boy died and 50 others have been affected by malaria in Nilagiri for the last couple of days.

Panic gripped Babandh and its adjacent Kudumsahi villages under Siadimal panchayat following child Radhu Singh

Rajahmundry, March 23: Health authorities are carrying out an entomological survey to find out the density of larvae and vector in stagnant waters in rural, urban and Agency areas to help authorities initiate preventive measures and ensure that people do not fall victim to vector- borne diseases like malaria, filaria, dengue, chikungunya and Japanese encephalitis in the Godavari districts.

Genetically Modified Insects Carry Antigen In Saliva

Washington: Scientists have developed a genetically modified mosquito which they claim can work as a natural

Shillong, March 18: With malaria being a perennial menace in the State, the Meghalaya Government has turned to a fish variety to kill mosquito at larval stage.

Hyderabad, March 16: The Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) has intensified its anti-larval operations by deploying 824 teams that will cover all the houses in the city, at least once a week, to curb the mosquito menace. The GHMC additional commissioner, health, Mr Sk Aleem Basha, appealed to the citizens to allow the GHMC teams into the houses for the spraying operations.

AMIT GUPTA

Ranchi, March 5: Official facts and figures paint a far from healthy picture of Jharkhand.

This document contains the presentation by Rais Akhtar on Climate change and extreme weather events mortality in India, presented at National climate research conference, IIT Delhi, March 5-6, 2010.

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