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.

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.

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.