A new multinational study suggests that the dengue virus will find its way into cities that have no prior history of infection thanks to the unplanned way urban areas have come up in India. The global mapping study which was done …
A new study suggests that the dengue virus may be more widespread than previously estimated by WHO, particularly in the tropical region. Of this India alone accounted for 33 million infections in 2012. Samir Bhatt, DPhil, from …
Diseases in 2012 followed a similar trend to previous years. India plays host to several seasonal ones like dengue, fever, malaria, tuberculosis and swine flu which show up during particular seasons in some particular states but …
Four-year old Tasneem Jafri, whose father Tariq died of dengue is still fighting for her life at the BYL Nair Hospital in Mumbai Central. Her mother is also admitted at the same hospital. Her father was the fourth dengue casualty …
Dengue has already afflicted 1,150 people in Bihar this year, and it threatens to become an epidemic. Even so, the level of preparedness of the authorities is dismal -- only one of the four fogging machines in the state capital …
