Kohima, April 7: Nagaland will join the rest of the country in observing anti-Malaria month in April. Anti-malaria month is observed in the month of June but due to paradigm shift of diseases transmission the month of April has been chosen for the observance, said Dr Imtimeren Jamir, additional director, directorate of health and family welfare, Nagaland.

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).

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.

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