Snuffing out lives with pollution

Premature deaths and disease caused by a polluted environment is the most pressing problem in the world today, says a WHO report prepared for the …

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Regional approach required for treatment of malaria

A close hard look

Malaria is easy to check. Just do not let mosquitoes breed. This is the essence of the bioenvironmental way to control such tiny big disease …

Non-chemical use to contain kala-azar vector

Award for ecosecurity

For his outstanding work in fighting malaria, V P Sharma gets the Green Scientist Award 2001

Dengue on the rise: global burden is three times WHO estimate

Study shows India contributed more than one-third of burden in 2010

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Kala-azar spreads to Gujarat, MP

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Needed: People's participation

Communities and state governments have to play a more important role

Hassan: Holding on

MRC's operations are still going on in this Karnataka district, but their fate is uncertain

Kolar: The dilemma continues

Although the MRC's work is still going on, the community remains has not been educated to continue with it

Kheda: Forgotten glory

This is where it all started. And now, there is no sign of past successes

Hardwar: Not without help

The malaria control operations have been successful only because of help from a large public sector corporation

Chennai: beginning of a new policy

New bye-laws might help in dealing with malaria

Pondichery: The gnats live on

Even the memory of initial success of bioenvironmental approach has been wiped off

Goa: Back to square one

For mysterious reasons, the state government is highly sceptical of the MRC's work

Malaria, diarrhoeal diseases set to rise: IPCC report

Latest report of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recommends simple measures such as provision of clean water, sanitation and …

Mumbai hit with diseases after rains

Chikungunya spreads its tentacles

Chikungunya, a viral disease borne by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, has assumed epidemic proportions in large swathes of the country, especially …

More floods, no winter

Anthony McMichael on health risks from climate change

ANTHONY MCMICHAEL heads the International Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health at the Australian National University, and is a member …

Climate change can affect diseases transmitted by insects, vectors: UN report

Humans are changing zoonotic disease systems and increasing their impact through habitat encroachment, human population pressure, the report said&…

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