Pune Dengue and malaria continue their surge in Pimpri-Chinchwad without any tangible efforts from the civic body to curb the menace. While malaria has crossed the 300 mark, dengue cases have reached 187 since January.

JEYPORE: With at least 20 malarial deaths in the last one week, the disease is taking epidemic proportions in Jeypore and Koraput sub-divisions under Koraput district. As many as 3,000 persons suffering from malarial fever were admitted to health centres in these sub-divisions. Of these, 80 per cent cases are of children.

As many as 1,028 cases of chikungunya and 402 dengue cases have been reported in the State since January 1 this year.

While Bangalore urban has registered highest number of 298 chikungunya cases, Dharwad district tops the list of number of dengue cases.

Come monsoon and with it we hear the news of an outbreak of various seasonal diseases, particularly the vector-borne ones. What is also not surprising is that the civic body

SHILLONG: Meghalaya has recorded 12,726 malaria cases, most of them from Garo Hills, in the first half of 2009, a two-fold increase compared with last year. Though 20 people have died of the disease this year, there is concern that the malaria situation may worsen in the next six months.

It is now clear that the Dengue Shock Syndrome (DSS), which surfaced in the open, with 24 cases reported in one hospital alone, is more widespread in the City.

Many more cases have been reported in other city hospitals. Adults too have reportedly contracted the viral disease.

Mumbai: The dreaded chandipura virus, known to give very little time for recovery, has struck Nagpur and its adjoining districts claiming seven lives in two weeks. The state has declared it an epidemic now and started massive anti-vector campaigns in the severely affected villages.

Rashmi Menon, Bangalore:
Already challenged by a rising swine-flu threat, the State health department is now having to battle a resurgent dengue menace. Lurking to strike hard is the dengue shock syndrome (DSS), which has claimed one life so far. No less than 24 cases have been reported in just two weeks at a single hospital.

Bokaro, July 6: The sting is deadlier than the bullet.

As if battling Maoists was not challenging enough, security personnel, particularly CRPF jawans, posted in the coal belt have another enemy to take on

A total of 257 people have lost their lives due to suspected meningococcal meningitis in Meghalaya since 2008, the State Government said yesterday.

In 2008, 130 people (10 of them confirmed) have died due to the disease. In this year, 127 (four of them confirmed) people have died so far.