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Andhra Pradesh is now facing a severe health crisis with the increase and spread of several diseases like malaria, dengue, and various other viral fevers.
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To date, the R21/Matrix-M malaria vaccine has been licensed for use in Ghana, Nigeria and Burkina Faso.
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WHO also issued recommendations on the advice of SAGE for new vaccines for dengue and meningitis, along with immunisation schedules and product recommendations for COVID-19
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"Karachi division reported 1,834 malaria cases in last eight months with no deaths," a health department report shared, as per ARY News.
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DMK leader Udhayanidhi’s statement, equating Sanatan Dharma with diseases such as dengue and malaria and asking for its eradication has led to a political row.
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Each year, more than 200 million people fall sick with malaria and more than half a million of these infections lead to death.
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In order to reduce dengue and malaria cases, instructions have been given to the sanitation department to conduct a cleanliness blitz in flood-affected areas.
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While our successful peptide-based vaccines targeting malaria only contain small protein fragments of a malaria protein, mRNA vaccines encode an entire malaria protein
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Back in July, the number confirmed dengue cases in Telangana were nearly 542 and in August the number of dengue cases has gone-up to 1827.
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Karimnagar: Collector RV Karnan instructed officials to take steps to check the spread of dengue, malaria and other seasonal diseases. Collector along with Karimnagar Mayor Y Sunil Rao conducted a review meeting with officials and sanitation teams to discuss the measures to be taken to check the spread of seasonal diseases at the Collectorate auditorium […]
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Hyderabad: Prevailing inclement weather conditions have become ideal for proliferation of Covid infections and seasonal ailments, especially dengue, senior health officials here cautioned. Due to incessant rains and wet weather conditions, health officials and experts are anticipating a rise in Covid infections and dengue in the coming weeks. “Given the prolonged wet and overcast conditions, […]
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Hyderabad: The pace at which technological innovations in medicine are underway, a day is not far when humanity would be once and for all defeat vector-borne diseases like dengue, malaria and chikungunya, which for decades have burdened public health systems in India. Thanks to the cutting-edge research, at least within the next decade, a lasting […]
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Hyderabad: A drug widely used for the treatment of post-menopausal symptoms and osteoporosis among women now has the potential to treat malaria. In a ground-breaking study, researchers from Hyderabad-based Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) have demonstrated that Bazedoxifene is anti-parasitic and inhibits Plasmodium falciparum, the unicellular protozoan parasite that causes malaria in humans. […]
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Geneva: The World Health Organization (WHO) has called for continued innovation and increased investment in fighting malaria. On Monday, the WHO announced that over 1 million children have been vaccinated against the disease in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi, using the world’s first malaria vaccine, reports Xinhua news agency. If widely deployed, it estimates that the […]
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Hyderabad: Telangana State has received national recognition and appreciation for its efforts to eliminate malaria in the past six years between 2015 and 2021, as part of the National Framework for Malaria Elimination in India (NFMEI) initiative of National Vector Borne Disease Control Programme (NVBDCP), Director General of Health Services (DGHS), Ministry of Health and […]
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Hyderabad: The initiatives taken up in Telangana under Palle Pragathi have not only helped in ensuring sanitation in villages but have also helped in bringing down seasonal ailments drastically across the State. Take the case of malaria in the State in 2015. From as many as 11,880 cases of malaria in 2015, the cases declined […]
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New Delhi: Male mosquitoes beat their wings faster when swarming at sunset to better detect females and increase their chance of reproducing, finds a novel study led by UCL scientists. Published in Science Advances, the findings provide a vital new insight into how mosquitoes, driven by their internal circadian clock, combine changes in wing beats […]
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Abuja: A total of 80 deaths have been reported across Nigeria following the spread of Lassa fever in the most populous African country so far this year, the Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) has said. A total of 434 confirmed cases of Lassa fever have been reported from 17 states and and the federal […]
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Hyderabad: Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) intensified measures to fight vector-borne diseases. As part of this exercise, about 642 teams from the entomology wing inspected 23.90 lakh houses in October to check for mosquito larvae breeding and identified 47,103 houses where the breeding was taking place. The special teams apart from treating the breeding spots […]
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More than a century of waiting has ended. The World Health Organization’s approval for the first anti-malaria vaccine is a path-breaking development that is set to change the course of public health history. Nearly 130 years after scientists first identified the Plasmodium parasites behind malaria, the world now has a vaccine — RTS, S — […]