Mysore proposes separate zone for food vendors

Close on the heels of cholera and swine flu outbreak in Mysore, the city corporation has decided to set up a separate zone for food vendors. The corporation had earlier in April, banned food vending in the city after the outbreak of the two diseases. Vendors protested this.

The microbes strike back

Malaria -- whose incidence dropped from an estimated annual 75 million cases with 0.8 million deaths before Independence to 0.1 million cases with no deaths by 1964 -- showed feverish activity in the '70s. It is stabilising now at about 2 million cases a year. Of late, however, a potentially fatal form of malaria, caused by Plasmodium falciparum, is accounting for as much as 35-40 per cent of the cases and is spreading to new areas.

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Superbug in the making

THE spectre of superbug still hangs heavily on the residents of Delhi. To make matters worse, another study conducted in the capital has found that cholera bacteria might also be becoming resistant to drugs. Similar results were found in a study conducted at Solapur district of Maharashtra.

Chhattisgarh unsure of disease outbreak

Already marred by violence, tribals from the interior villages of Dantewada are facing a new challenge. A number of people last month died of or fell a victim to a water-borne disease. Though the state government maintains it is DVD (diarrhoea-vomiting-dysentry), experts suspect it to be as severe as cholera.

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climate change Poznan talks begin Delegates from 186 nations congregated in the Polish city of Poznan on December 1 to negotiate a new climate change treaty to succeed the Kyoto Protocol in 2012.