New Delhi: Dengue is back in Delhi with 98 cases identified ever since the outbreak. The experts have blamed it on the lack of fumigation and sources said that municipal workers were unwilling to work because they had not got their salaries.
The fatal fever is on the rise in the national capital, ringing alarm bells in the secretariat. According to a study by the Delhi government, as many as 98 cases of dengue fever and 201 cases of malaria have been confirmed, with a steep rise in the past 3-4 days itself.
One of the major reasons for the rise in the cases is lack of fumigation. According to sources, there has been a fight between the government and employees over salary payment.
Reacting to the outbreak, the medical fraternity has said that immediate action is needed to check the dengue menace....
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Copenhagen: Chloroquine, an efficacious old drug, is once again beginning to work against malaria, one of the most widespread scourges in the world. Scientists and doctors fear that the malaria parasite will develop resistance to the current frontline treatment against malaria: Artemisinin-based Combination Therapies (ACTs). Resistance (to drugs) monitoring at the University of Copenhagen shows that in several African countries, malaria parasites are succumbing to chloroquine, the American Journal of...
05:18 PM, Oct 03, 2012
Sydney: Australian researchers have made a major breakthrough in the quest for a vaccine against malaria, which snuffs out a million lives every year, particularly of children. The findings show that people who develop immunity to malaria develop antibodies that primarily target a protein known as PfEMP1, which is produced by Plasmodium falciparum, causing most cases of malaria. James Beeson, professor and senior study author at the Burnet Institute, Australia's...
01:25 PM, Aug 06, 2012
New Delhi: Less than a week after the monsoon hit the national capital, scores of cases of dengue and malaria have already been reported. More than 86 cases of Malaria and five cases of dengue have been reported, which is almost double the number of cases reported in 2011 till early July. But health authorities say there is no cause for alarm. MCD Health Officer NK Yadav said, "There is...
01:40 PM, Jul 12, 2012
Mumbai: In a shocking study published in medical journal, The Lancet, scientists have found that one-third of malaria medicines in South East Asia and Africa are either fake or of poor quality. What is even worse is that a majority of these fake medicines are being manufactured in India and China. According to teh World Health Organisation (WHO), 2,500 people die worldwide every day of malaria. The Lancet study says...
01:14 PM, May 24, 2012
New Delhi: A new study by UK-based medical journal Lancet has found that seven per cent of anti-malarial drugs tested in India are of poor quality and many are fake. The study goes on to say that 1 in every 3 anti-malarial drugs sold in southeast Asia are also fake. Researchers analysed data based on 1400 drug samples in five classes from seven Southeast Asian countries to reach to this...
10:11 AM, May 23, 2012
Mumbai: By the time you're done watching this report, somewhere in the world - a child would have succumbed to malaria. A public health disaster in sub-Saharan Africa and parts of South East Asia, Malaria poses a threat to a 100 crore Indians, according to the latest World Malaria Report. About 1.5 million people suffer from malaria annually. A study published in the medical journal The Lancet, finds cases of...
10:14 AM, Apr 25, 2012
London: Malaria kills over 1.2 million people every year worldwide, twice as many deaths as thought earlier, while deaths from the mosquito-borne disease in India could be more than 45 times higher than what is currently estimated, a new study has claimed. Researchers at the University of Washington's Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation who collected data on malaria deaths from 1980 to 2010 found that 1.2 million people died...
05:17 PM, Feb 03, 2012
New Delhi: 2011 was a year not just of landmark political revolutions but also of medical marvels. Be it HIV prevention or a vaccine for malaria, 2011 saw many medical breakthroughs. Here's a look at the top five: HIV treatment as prevention: It has been deemed as the most important scientific breakthrough of the year 2011. A study published in the journal Science this year, found that the same drugs...
08:45 AM, Dec 29, 2011
Mumbai: The world's first malaria vaccine is in its final stages of clinical trials. It's proving to be 56 per cent effective, which means it will reduce the risk of the disease by more than half. After 30 years of research, this is the best shot for a malaria vaccine. Two-year-old Philip is one of 15,000 African children taking part in a phase 3 trial. An earlier phase 2 trial...
09:07 AM, Oct 25, 2011
New Delhi: It is that time of the year when dengue and malaria cases are at its peak. The worst hit this time have been Gujarat and Hyderabad. Mosquito maladies malaria and dengue have hit Ahmedabad with 9,392 cases of malaria reported, against more than 5,900 cases from last year. There have been more than 450 cases of dengue as well. So far this year, 63 people in Ahmedabad have...
04:24 PM, Oct 19, 2011
London: An experimental vaccine from GlaxoSmithKline halved the risk of African children getting malaria in a major clinical trial, making it likely to become the world's first shot against the deadly disease. Final-stage trial data released on Tuesday showed it gave protection against clinical and severe malaria in five- to 17-month-olds in Africa, where the mosquito-borne disease kills hundreds of thousands of children a year. "These data bring us to...
03:03 AM, Oct 19, 2011
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04:16 AM, Oct 18, 2011
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04:45 PM, Jul 27, 2011
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09:22 AM, Jul 18, 2011
Mumbai: Barely three weeks into the monsoons and Maximum City has been hit by a mutated strain of malaria - causing diarrhoea, stomach cramps, kidney disorders and dehydration instead of the common symptoms, fever with chills. And yet the number of cases has gone down this year - in just one month itself, the BMC has recorded 2800 cases of malaria in the city. That's around 60 per cent less...
09:22 AM, Jun 29, 2011
New Delhi: India recorded 25 million cases of Malaria and 30,000 deaths in the year 2009 - according to the World Health Organisation. That's one tenth the number of cases worldwide. And now a bigger threat emerging is that of drug resistance. About ten years ago, the most commonly used anti-malaria drug Chloroquine, stopped working against the malaria parasite, forcing countries to switch to the second line of treatment, called...
09:24 AM, Apr 25, 2011
New Delhi: This is the time of the year when mosquito breeding needs to be under check, as May usually is the worst month in Delhi when it comes to malaria or dengue. It's a huge task at hand for Delhi's municipal corporation, that has just begun its anti-mosquito breeding drive this month. Dirt all around and stagnating water, unfortunately, isn't a rare sight in the capital. And with temperatures...
09:39 AM, Apr 05, 2011
Washington: Scientists have developed a new type of nanoparticle which they say can safely and effectively deliver vaccines for diseases such as malaria and HIV-AIDS. Developed by a team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the new particles consist of concentric fatty spheres that can carry synthetic versions of proteins normally produced by viruses. These synthetic particles, the researchers said, elicit a strong immune response, comparable to that produced...
07:00 PM, Mar 01, 2011
Sydney: Scientists relying on new imaging technologies have for the first time caught malaria parasites in the act of invading red blood cells (RBCs). Researchers from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute and the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), achieved the feat combining electron, light and super resolution microscopy. The detailed look at what occurs as the parasite burrows through the RBCs wall provides new insights into the molecular and...
03:49 PM, Jan 20, 2011
