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Fighting mosquito menace with repellents, vaccines
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Fighting mosquito menace with repellents, vaccines

The Hindu  

Since 2007, WHO has called April 15 World Malaria Day to highlight the need for continued investment and sustained political commitment to malaria prevention and control. In 1902, Sir Ronald Ross received the Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine for having shown how malaria was transmitted by the bite of Anopheles mosquitoes infecting a human patient in Hyderabad suffering from malaria. The …

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235 notices sent to educational institutes over mosquito breeding: MCD
5 months ago

235 notices sent to educational institutes over mosquito breeding: MCD

Hindustan Times  

The public health department of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi sent legal notices to 235 legal notices and issued over 60 prosecutions to educational institutions as part of a special drive last week said the civic body in their statement on Tuesday. Under this drive, the civic body conducted inspections at 2,370 educational institutes for detecting mosquito breeding and mosquitogenic …

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BMC launches ‘Bhag Machchar Bhag’ campaign to combat dengue
5 months, 1 week ago

BMC launches ‘Bhag Machchar Bhag’ campaign to combat dengue

Hindustan Times  

MUMBAI: The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has launched a special campaign to spread awareness about mosquito control measures, to combat the sudden spurt in mosquito-borne diseases like dengue. In the first half of July itself, the city witnessed an increase in cases of dengue, leptospirosis and H1N1 cases, compared to June 2024, as per the monsoon report released by the BMC …

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27 dengue cases in Delhi over the last week, likely to go up
1 year, 5 months ago

27 dengue cases in Delhi over the last week, likely to go up

Hindustan Times  

With parts of the city battling waterlogging and flooding over the last week, Delhi has reported 27 cases of dengue in the weekly cycle ending on July 15, the routine vector-borne disease report issued by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi said. Public health department officials of the civic body said that as the water recedes in the low-lying areas, the …

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Virus spread by mosquitoes increases risk of premature births
1 year, 5 months ago

Virus spread by mosquitoes increases risk of premature births

The Telegraph  

A virus spread by mosquito bites increases the risk of premature births, a study has found. Data show infected pregnant mothers are 77 per cent more likely to give birth before 32 weeks, while the virus more than doubles the risk of a child being born at an extremely low weight. “On average, a dengue infection during pregnancy reduces birth …

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Tiger mosquitoes found in Amsterdam for first time
2 years, 2 months ago

Tiger mosquitoes found in Amsterdam for first time

NL Times  

Tiger mosquitoes were found three times in Amsterdam in September, according to data from the Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority. It is the first time that the invasive mosquito, which can transmit various diseases like dengue fever, has been found in the Dutch capital. According to the platform Stop invasive exotics, tourists from Italy, France, and Spain should …

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Unusual winter trend: Delhi sees 7 dengue cases last week
2 years, 11 months ago

Unusual winter trend: Delhi sees 7 dengue cases last week

Hindustan Times  

Delhi reported seven more dengue cases over the past week, taking the number of the vector borne disease in the Capital to 15 this year. Delhi recorded 9,613 dengue cases and 23 fatalities in 2021, making it the second worst annual outbreak on record. A senior municipal official from public health official said that 210 legal notices have been issued …

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