KOCHI: Though the city residents are trying their best in learning to live with mosquitoes, the scare of spreading dengue fever is scaling up.

Though the Corporation put two autorickshaw- mounted fogging machines out in Mattanchery and Ernakulam areas, the service has not yet reached all divisions.

Zubeda Hamid |
Chennai,
TO get to school and write her halfyearly examination, eight-year-old S Indumati has to still wade through waist-high water everyday.

Two weeks after the cessation of rains in the city, parts of Thoraipakkam on Old Mahabalipuram Road remain inundated. Large tracts of stagnant water can be found between houses and mosquito larvae are breeding in abundance.

Arbovirus diseases have emerged as a global public health concern. However, the impact of climatic, social, and environmental variability on the transmission of arbovirus diseases remains to be determined.

Access to safe drinking water and sanitation is essential for protection and promotion of health. It is a basic human right and a key component of effective public health delivery system. "Disease Burden due to Inadequate Water & Sanitation Facilities in India", is a study conducted by the Sulabh International Academy of Environmental Sanitation (SIAES) .

HYDERABAD: Kotis C.Kafatos, president, European Research Council and Chair of Immunogenomics, Imperial College, London, has expressed scepticism over the long-term effectiveness of treating malaria through drugs or even a vaccine if developed and called eradicating the disease by blocking the transmission of the parasite from the mosquito to humans.

Over 41 students of a school for SC/ST girls near the capital have suddenly fallen ill with symptoms of malaria or viral fever, spreading panic among teachers and parents a week after the tragedy in a Bero residential school where five boys died after drinking milk served with hostel snacks.

Donald G. Mcneil Jr.
By last year, about 19 per cent of African children who lived in areas where malaria was endemic were sleeping under insecticide-treated mosquito nets, according to a new study in The Lancet.

Whether or not that is success or failure depends on how you look at it.

An analysis of insecticide-impregnated bednet usage in 40 African countries over seven years, using the Global Rural Urban Mapping Project, has identified poverty-stricken Nigerian children as a priority for the rollout of free bednets to prevent malaria. Other priority countries include Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, C

Civil surgeon V.K. Singh today conceded that at least three persons died of malaria at Tisri alone even as 30 people are feared to have fallen prey to the disease in the district.

The civil surgeon had sent a medical van to Gawah and Tisri blocks today for instant check-up of suspected malaria patients.

The Public Health Department of the Colombo Municipal Council, which inspected 3,100 premises on Wednesday, found mosquito breeding grounds in 409 of them. 180 were given notice under the mosquito borne diseases ordinance.

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