Ahmedabad: People in this part of Ahmedabad have got used to living by the side of a gutter. Residents of Shilaj, Ghuma, Manipur, Ghodhavi and surrounding areas have been tormented by what they call monster mosquitoes' for the last three years now.

Public health officers have been put on a high alert after a rare and unfamiliar dengue virus has been spotted in large numbers in Little India.

Little India is one of the busiest ethnic quarters in Singapore with a large cluster of Indian population, Pakistanis and Bangladeshis also flourish in Little India which is a must on Singapore tourist circuit.

BHUBANESWAR: Outbreak of emerging diseases has not only posed a potent challenge to health care delivery systems in the State but also reinforced the poverty-ill health nexus in the society by imposing

BHUBANESWAR: An Innovative technique which can do wonders for malaria control programme through vector monitoring has been devised by the Regional Medical Research Centre (RMRC) here.

The molecular biology technique can identify species, their host preference, parasite presence and drug resistance. All at one go, thereby saving on both resources and time.

AGARTALA, March 8

Patiala: Global warming is worsening the situation by way of fomenting the spread of mosquito-transmitted diseases, said Professor Emeritus of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dam, USA, Karamjit Singh Rai, while presiding on the concluding day of the three-day international conference on Entomology at Department of Zoology, Punjabi University, on Monday .

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The first death due to dengue fever during this season has been reported from Vizhinjam. A three-and-a-half-year old girl, Joicy from Kottapuram in Vizhinjam, died of dengue on Monday.