Tag: Dengue

Puri: A devotee from Gujarat arrested by the Police yesterday for climbing the Taladhwaja chariot of Lord Balabhadra was forwarded to the court today. According to reports, Dipesh Shah, a businessman from Ahmadabad had climbed the Taladhwaja chariot of Lord Balabhadra in the wee hours July 8. After having the darshan of the Lord, he […]

The toll due to dengue mounted to three this year when a patient undergoing treatment at the SCB hospital in Cuttack died yesterday

While the spread of dengue to other districts of Odisha has triggered panic among the people, a senior doctor at the SCB Medical College and Hospital today said most of those affected with the water borne disease are people from Odisha working in Bangalore and Pune, who have come to the state with dengue virus

Bhubaneswar: Expressing serious concern over the spread of dengue across the state, the Odisha Human Rights Commission (OHRC) has served notices to the health secretary, Urban Development department secretary and collectors of eight districts, including Cuttack, Keonjhar, Bhadra and, Jajpur, asking them to submit a report on the outbreak of the disease. According to sources, […]

Barbil/Cuttack: The first dengue death in Odisha this year was reported from Keonjhar district when a patient under treatment at the Barbil Community Health Centre (CHC) succumbed to the disease this afternoon. The deceased has been identified as Sukramani Sandil of Colony No-3 of Barbil Municipality. Sources in the hospital said Sukramani was admitted to […]

Barbil/Cuttack: Within a week of its outbreak, Dengue has assumed alarming proportions in Keonjhar and Cuttack districts. Reports from Keonjhar district said the situation in the mining area of Barbil has become critical with the rise in number of patients. Dr Kabindra Prasad Sahu, Chief District Medical Officer (CDMO), informed that of the 706 blood […]

New York: Researchers, including one of an Indian-origin, have identified 20 genes that can predict an individual’s likelihood of developing a severe form of dengue fever with about 80 per cent accuracy. The team from Standford University in the US, identified a gene-expression pattern that predicts which people infected with dengue — a mosquito-borne virus […]

New Delhi: As many as 260 cases of dengue were reported in the national capital in the week ending November 24, compared to 271 in the previous week, taking the total to 811 so far this month, according to a municipal report released on Monday. As per the latest report, 2,406 people have been diagnosed […]

Colombo: The number of people suffering from dengue in Sri Lanka has increased to over 34,000 so far this year, with Colombo reporting the highest number of infected patients, official statistics revealed on Monday. The statistics from the Epidemiology Unit said that in August, 1,075 patients have been diagnosed with dengue from across the island […]

Gurugram: Parents of a seven-year-old girl, who died of dengue after undergoing treatment at a Fortis Hospital here, were allowed to take their daughter’s dead body after paying the exorbitant bill of Rs 18 lakh. Residents of West Delhi’s Dwarka, the parents of the deceased have alleged that the hospital staff kept their daughter on […]

New Delhi: Aside from inflicting devastating natural disasters, climate change can also spur outbreaks of infectious diseases like zika, malaria and dengue fever, says a new study. “Climate change presents complex and wide-reaching threats to human health,” said lead author of the study Cecilia Sorensen from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus in the […]

New York: Scientists have developed a new paper-based test that can diagnose Zika infection within 20 minutes as well as accurately distinguish Zika virus from related viruses like Dengue. One of the biggest challenges in diagnosing Zika is that many of the tests are based on antibodies that interact with a viral protein called NS1, which […]

Hyderabad: Examining what climatic factors help spread dengue in India, researchers have found that a rise in temperature from 17 to 30 degrees Celsius can increase transmission of the mosquito-borne disease fourfold. However, a further increase in temperature beyond 35 degrees Celsius is detrimental to the mosquito survival, showed the findings published in the journal […]

Amid the prevailing COVID-19 pandemic, cases of dengue have emerged as fresh concerns for the administrative authorities in the state capital city of Bhubaneswar. As many as twelve cases of the vector-borne disease have been reported from Sailashree Vihar and Kalpana areas in the last 10 days, director of Public Health Niranjan Mishra was quoted as saying to the PTI.

Bhubaneswar: The number of dengue-infected persons in Odisha is increasing day by day with the number of affected persons reaching almost 800, said the state government on Tuesday but assured steps to tackle the situation were underway. Health Minister Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak said 797 blood samples have been tested positive in the state while 130 […]