The health department seems to be unaware, though filaria has witnessed a rising trend in the district in past few years. KANPUR: The health department seems to be unaware, though filaria has ...

UP Government launched this campaign because the central government has announced to eradicate Filaria from the country by the year 2021. The Uttar Pradesh government has decided to launch a ...

It’s a common belief that when a woman contracts an infection during her pregnancy, she can shield her child against it, at least temporarily. How is this possible? Well, it is believed that the ...

Filaria is a long, thread-like roundworm called Wuchereria Bancrofti that lives as a parasite in the bodies of human beings and animals. The male worm is shorter than the female and it has a curved ...

"I am betrayed and abandoned by my near and dear ones," claim Dheerendra Kumar Gautam, a patient of filaria at Ursula Horsman Hospital. KANPUR: "I am betrayed and abandoned by my near and dear ones," ...

CHENNAI: Though state health department claims to have eradicated filaria to a great extent, the recent report by National Vector-borne diseases control programme listed 20 districts of Tamil Nadu as ...

The Ministry of Public Health’s Vector Control Services is collaborating with the Pan American Health Organisation/World Health Organisation (PAHO/WHO) office in Guyana to launch a revised Mass Drug ...

Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh is set to launch a Mass Drug Administration (MDA) program on August 10, 2025, to eliminate filaria, a mosquito-borne disease. The campaign, which will target approximately 44.3 ...

Even as some 1,401 persons from households in Cove and John to Nooten Zuil, along the East Coast of Demerara have so far taken filaria pills, the Ministry of Health, in a Department of Public ...

Having won over polio, the biggest public health challenge that India faces is a much neglected disease called lymphatic filariasis. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MOHFW) recently launched ...

Midnight blood tests for filaria diagnosis could soon be a thing of the past as bioscientists have developed a kit to detect the infection, a first such method in the world. HT Image The kit, ...