Keyword : Dengue

Chikungunya: Quite a bite

It was 9.50 am on a sultry Friday when a 42-year-old lean man with droopy eyes waited for his turn along with 150-odd patients outside Safdarjung hospital’s fever clinic, as his body temperat

Of being impoverished and diseased

A giant yellow inflatable schistosomiasis worm, with ‘Making Schistory’ printed on it, floated on Lake Geneva, marking the five years since the London Declaration on neglected tropical

Dengue could be history soon

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation CEO Sue Desmond-Hellmann and Melinda Gates in April volunteered to get bitten by the dengue causing Aedis mosquitoes in Indonesia. They were donating blood

Spike in dengue, TB cases in Mumbai: Report

 Dengue cases in Mumbai have increased by a whopping 265% from 2013-2017, said a report which added that almost 18 people have died every day from tuberculosis (TB) in 2016-17. Accor

Straining under a new strain

In 2012, there was a major outbreak of dengue in Tamil Nadu. Across the state, 12,826 cases were reported, but the epicentre was Tirunelveli district. There were 66 deaths. Bad as this was, it mark

Dengue death: Instead of taking action against Medanta, Nadda gets the money reimbursed

Dr Naresh Trehan’s Medanta hospital handed out a check of Rs 15.68 lakh to the family of Sourya Singh Parmar, the seven-year-old child who died of dengue after undergoing three week long trea

Visionary Talk: Amitabh Gupta, Pune Police Commissioner with Kailashnath Adhikari, MD, Governance Now


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