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May 18, 2012 |
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Despite Measures, Malaria Deaths Continue In Keonjhar, Odisha |
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The district has witnessed implementation of many malaria control programmes for more than a decade. But social activists feel that the disease is far from being controlled. The health department had claimed that only two deaths were reported in the district in the last financial year. But activists feel that many cases go unreported from remote areas and are thus unaccounted for. |
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May 18, 2012 |
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Students Find Ants In Nachos At Lunch |
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An elementary school in Erie County served students quite a surprise in their lunches last week: ants in the nachos. The ant-infested chips were served to ten students before anyone noticed the problem. The superintendent of the school district says thankfully no students had to be sent home early with upset stomachs. |
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May 18, 2012 |
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Malaria Claims 1 More, BMC Gets Cracking |
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Despite a string of measures enforced by the BMC to curtail the scourge of malaria in the city, a 15-year-old girl from Wadala is suspected to have succumbed to the disease at a BMC-run hospital on Wednesday, said sources. The death takes the malaria death count this year to two. |
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May 18, 2012 |
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Health Official Transferred Over Dengue Deaths |
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State minister for health, Dr V S Vijay, on Thursday ordered the transfer of Dr Meeran Maideen, deputy director of health services, Tirunelveli, with immediate effect, due to serious drawbacks in the three government hospital under the limits of which dengue had claimed 16 lives. |
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May 17, 2012 |
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Don't Let Rats Ruin Jamaica 50 celebrations - McKenzie |
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Opposition Spokesperson on Urban Renewal, Rural Development and Local Government Desmond McKenzie has urged the Government to up the allocation for public cleansing and garbage collection, warning that the country could not stand the embarrassment of rat infestation during its 50th Independence anniversary celebrations. |
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May 17, 2012 |
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Haryana’s 650 ‘Pied Pipers’ On Month-Long Duty To Poison Rats |
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It may not sound exactly like the poem most of us have read as children, but a recent Haryana government order seems to have made ‘pied pipers’ of at least 650 people who have been assigned the task to spread across the state, find and kill rats. |
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May 17, 2012 |
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Termite Trouble In Posh New Dubai Areas |
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Pest-control agencies say there's been a significant jump in termite infestation at New Dubai areas, including new buildings. "We're talking about relatively new buildings with termite problems. It's happening big time," said Dinesh Ramachandran, Technical Director of National Pest Control (NPC), the biggest pest-control firm based in Dubai. |
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May 17, 2012 |
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Central Team Inspects Malaria-Prone Wards |
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A National Institute of Malaria Research (NIMR) team has failed to spot a single breeding site for the anopheles mosquito, mainly responsible for malaria, in the city. NIMR experts visited malaria-prone wards in the city during the last two days. |
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May 16, 2012 |
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Malaria Cases On The Rise In Dakshina Kannada |
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The malaria cases in Dakshina Kannada district have been on the rise in a significant manner as a total of 1,816 cases have been reported this year till April. Out of the 1,816 cases, 1,571 cases were reported in Mangalore city limits alone. Last year, in the same period, a total of 1,361 cases were reported. |
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May 16, 2012 |
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BMC To Put Up Posters To Fight Malaria |
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The BMC will put up posters across residential complexes in the city to explain methods of malaria control. The civic body's pre-monsoon awareness campaign is aimed at people in housing societies who seem to assume that mosquitoes breed only in slums. |
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