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.

At a time when the spurt in vector borne diseases have caught both the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) and the state health department unaware, bureaucrats and politicians are busy passing the buck. And this has resulted in confusion over the fate of the dengue kits, which were sought by the civic body.

The Matale anti malaria Regional Office has embarked on a malaria prevention programme in the area. Eight malaria patients have been treated recently at the Matale district hospital.

M K Sunil Kumar, KOCHI: The cases of leptospirosis (rat fever) and malaria have gone up in the district with the

The high incidence of dengue cases in the region has taken a toll on the city

LUCKNOW: The dreaded Japanese Encephalitis (JE) virus has, till now, claimed 398 lives in eastern UP with five more children succumbing to the virus in the past 36 hours. According to official sources, the number of patients suffering from Japanese Encephalitis who have been admitted to the Baba Raghav Das Medical College is 2,193.

Though over 25,000 people have been afflicted by Malaria and Dengue in the city in the past two months, the drive to spray mosquito repellents at every house by civic workers has virtually collapsed.

The civic authorities had issued a circular asking all field workers to carry out anti-larval measures including spraying of larvaecide till 30 November .

BHUBANESWAR: Now, Orissa can shed its stigma with malaria as a new method using simple biotechnology can wipe out the larvae and the success could be much more than what was achieved in the past decades with numerous control measures.

KOLKATA: The scare of dengue haunts city residents as new cases of the disease are being reported daily from different areas. The city

Of more than a thousand dengue patients reported at different hospitals in the province, 358 were tested positive.

This was stated by Sindh Health Minister Dr Saghir Ahmed on Tuesday while issuing latest figures about the prevalence of dengue fever in Sindh.