JAIPUR: One more scrub typhus patient died in the state taking death toll due to the disease to 14. The medical health and family welfare department confirmed a scrub typhus death in Bundi district after which teams of the department inspected Nainwa area of the district. Read article
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GORAKHPUR: When Mahendra Kumar had a little money saved, over 10 years ago, he installed a handpump outside his small house in Badhariya village. The first he heard of the handpump being too shallow was when his nine-yearold daughter Saloni died of encephalitis this year and the grieving father was told it was because of […]
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The death of two neighbourhood women, in a span of 12 hours, has spread panic in Vellaraiamman Koil village near Wallajahbad, Kancheepuram district. Pottiammal (45) died around 5 p.m. on Friday evening and around 5 a.m. on Saturday morning, her neighbour Gowri (50) died. The women were down with fever the past week, a villager […]
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Dubai: Emirati teen Khalid Esmail Al Hosani has been found safe and well in India, the family tells Gulf News. The 19 year old is reunited with his father. Read article
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PANJIM: Goa has witnessed a sudden rise of malaria cases this year, breaking a four-year declining trend, even as Directorate of Health Services stated that there was no reason to panic. When asked to explain the reason for the sudden spurt in malaria cases, Dr Sachin Govekar cited “intermittent rainfall” and the number of migrants […]
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Despite attempts by the state health department to downplay the incidence of swine flu in Madhya Pradesh, the high mortality rate among those afflicted by it is actually alarming. Bhopal tops the death toll with seven out of 28 patients testing positive for H1N1 virus succumbing during treatment. Indore is not far behind, where five […]
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Despite attempts by the state health department to downplay the incidence of swine flu in Madhya Pradesh, the high mortality rate among those afflicted by it is actually alarming. Bhopal tops the death toll with seven out of 28 patients testing positive for H1N1 virus succumbing during treatment. Indore is not far behind, where five […]
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NEW DELHI: The strike by engineers of Kingfisher Airlines led to zero operations at Delhi’s IGI Airport on Monday. All of the airline’s 15 flights from Delhi stood cancelled and the airline stopped taking bookings for Tuesday. No clarity was offered for when bookings would start again. “The strike was quite sudden and there was […]
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A rare disease suspected to be of ‘scrub typhus’ has claimed 30 lives, in Alwar district of Rajasthan this season. Another six have died due to a disease with similar symptoms in Dausa. Read article
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PANAJI: A 48-year-old man from Karnataka working in Goa was diagnosed with rabies 25 years after the dog bite he received, Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology has reported in its latest issue. The unusual case has been recorded at the Goa Medical College (GMC) and hospital, Bambolim. The patient was admitted to GMC in […]
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