Category: Health alert
Israeli Scientists Track Pollution for 189 Megacities
Using data collected by three of NASA’s high-tech aerosol monitoring satellites, Israeli scientists have tracked pollution trends for 189 megacities, including New York City, Tokyo and Mumbai. Called MODIS-Terra, MODIS-Aqua, and MISR, the satellites were launched by NASA from 2000 […]
One more dead, three sick with mystery virus—WHO
Another person has died of a mysterious respiratory virus and three more cases have been discovered in Saudi Arabia and Qatar, the World Health Organisation said Friday. “This brings the total of laboratory-confirmed cases to six,” the Geneva-based UN agency […]
Poor sanitation kills 2.7 mn people a year: UN
Improving sanitation and building more toilets could save millions of lives around the world and would remove an important source of inequality, the UN said Friday ahead of World Toilet Day. “Eliminating inequalities can start in the most unlikely of […]
Diabetes Deaths on the Increase
There are now 70 million people with diabetes in South East Asia and this number is expected to increase by 2030 to 121 million, according to new estimates from the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) today to mark World Diabetes Day. […]
16 patients diagnosed with H1N1 in Riyadh
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia- As many as 16 patients had recently been diagnosed with H1N1 virus in a medical center in Riyadh of Saudi Arabia, Al Hayat newspaper revealed on Sunday. The first case was found 18 days ago, which was […]
Ebola virus found in Borneo, Indonesia
JAKARTA- Indonesian researchers have found evidence of presence of Ebola virus in several Orangutan in Kalimantan island known as Borneo, paper said here on Saturday. The researchers were from Airlangga University’s Avian Influenza-zoonosis Research Center in Surabaya, East Java, in […]
Drug-resistant Malaria Spreading in Asia
Next to Africa, Asia is the second region to have been mutilated by drug-resistant malaria, warn experts. Resistance to the drug used everywhere to cure the life-threatening disease has emerged in Cambodia, Thailand and Myanmar, said Richard Feachem, director of […]
Odisha Dengue Cases on the Rise
Dengue cases in Odisha have climbed to 1,520, the dengue toll this year is six, say sources. A man tested positive Tuesday in Khordha district. With this, the number of people who have tested positive for dengue in the state […]
Iraq says cholera outbreak under control after four deaths
BAGHDAD- The Iraqi Kurdish authorities said Sunday that a recent outbreak of cholera in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region is under control despite the death of four people. “The (regional) ministry of health has been able to control the spread of […]
38 Nepalese patients suffer from swine flu within week of outbreak
KATHAMANDU- Within a week of the outbreak of Swine Flu virus with influenza A and B called (H1N1) in Nepal, more than 38 patients have been affected by the virus, doctors said. “We have been able to confirm as many […]
