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'10 hafte, 10 baje, 10 minute': Delhi CM launches dengue, chikungunya prev
Updated : 6 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sept 1 (ANI): Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday kickstarted his government's 10-week mass awareness campaign against dengue and chikungunya by inspecting his residence for stagnant water, which can spread such mosquito-borne diseases.
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Mosquito-borne diseases set to flourish as climate gets warmer
Updated : 7 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Apr 15 (ANI): A recent study has claimed that with the climate getting warmer with every passing year, the geographical range of vector-borne diseases such as chikungunya, dengue fever, leishmaniasis, and tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) is expanding rapidly.
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Spurt in dengue cases in Hyderabad
Updated : 7 years, 6 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], Nov 11 (ANI): The cases of dengue have shot up in Hyderabad city over the past few weeks, with at least 135 people being diagnosed with the vector-borne disease this year so far.
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Dengue - A continuing global threat
Updated : 7 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sep 11 (ANI): Dengue fever is a painful, debilitating mosquito-borne disease caused by dengue viruses. Each year, an estimated 400 million people globally are infected with the virus; about 100 million get progressively sick and 2.5 percent of those patients die. It is the
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Health minister Nadda hails WHO's Malaria report
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India] November 29 (ANI): India has reduced its new malaria cases by one third and even crossed the malaria mortality targets of 2020, said Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare Jagat Prakash Nadda on Wednesday.
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Andhra Govt. to distribute mosquito nets across state
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Amravati (Andhra Pradesh) [India], October 23 (ANI): Andhra Pradesh Health Minister Kamineni Srinivas on Monday announced that the state government will distribute 21,52,000 mosquito nets on October 24 in order to prevent the mosquito-borne diseases from spreading.
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Malaria remains acute public health problem in sub-Saharan Africa: WHO rep
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], Dec. 14 (ANI): Despite major progress in the fight against malaria, the mosquito-borne disease remains an acute public health problem, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, home to 90 per cent of the world's malaria cases, according to an annual flagship report by th
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India, China, Pakistan, Bangladesh vulnerable to Zika virus: Study
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [US], Sept. 2 (ANI): A new study says that parts of Africa and the Asia-Pacific region may be vulnerable to outbreaks of the Zika virus, including some of the world's most populous countries and many with limited resources to identify and respond to the mosquito-borne di
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13 Indians in Singapore test positive for Zika, confirms MEA
Updated : 8 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sept.1 (ANI): The External Affairs Ministry (MEA) has confirmed that 13 Indians have tested positive for the Zika virus in Singapore, after an outbreak of the mosquito-borne disease that at first affected three dozen workers on a construction site.
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