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Homeopathy, fish to take on encephalitis in UP?
Even as a worried Uttar Pradesh government is combating the outbreak of encephalitis that has claimed 117 lives in the last one month in the eastern part of the state, the Gorakhpur administration is toying with homeopathy and fish to take on the killer disease. According to highly-placed sources, a ‘hate-ke’ (different) proposal came from [...]
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Management of powdery mildew in sunflower
Avoid high plant densities Sunflower is one of the largest produced oilseed crops in the country annually. Though it is grown on a large scale for oilseed production in India the crop suffers huge losses due to many pest and disease outbreaks. Especially during the flowering and grain formation stages sudden outbreak of diseases like [...]
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Idaho infant dies from whooping cough amid regional outbreak
By Laura Zuckerman SALMON, Idaho | Sat May 5, 2020 8:08am IST SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - Whooping cough took the life of a 9-week-old girl from Idaho this week, the first death from an outbreak of the highly contagious respiratory disease that has hit Idaho, Washington state and Montana, health officials said on Friday. Few [...]
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S. Korean inspectors to look into new case of mad cow disease
Seoul, April 29 (Xinhua) — South Korea will send a group of government officials, scholars and civic activists to the United States to look into the latest outbreak of mad cow disease amid growing food safety concerns at home, the farm ministry here said Sunday. The nine-member team, led by an official at South Korea’s [...]
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Beat the heat, not at the cost your health
Watch what you pick from the roadside vendor, warn doctors The rising mercury level and the dry spell have resulted in an increase in the number of water-borne disease cases being reported in Bangalore hospitals. Doctors, who have seen an increase in gastroenteritis cases in the last few weeks, warned that if people didn’t take [...]
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Mysterious disease outbreak in Poonch village
Surankote (Poonch), Mar 22: At least six children have reportedly died due to outbreak of a mysterious disease in a remote village of this border district. Reports said that the epidemic has spread in the Phaglla village of Surankote infecting more than two dozen children in last three days. Though officials confirmed the death of [...]
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Experts to study cause of bird flu outbreak
Agartala: Worried at the frequent outbreak of bird flu and its effect on the poultry industry, the Tripura government has decided to urge the central government to send special expert-teams to study the sporadic resurfacing of the contagious disease, an official said here Saturday. “Sporadic outbreak of bird flu has been badly affecting the poultry [...]
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Mysterious disease outbreak in Kupwara village
Tumina (Kupwara), Mar 13: At least eight children in this frontier village, about 32 kms from Kupwara, have been disabled in past one month due to outbreak of a mysterious disease. Residents of snowbound Tumina village nestled in Shamsbari mountain range are finding it hard to tackle the crisis as more and more children are [...]
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Mysterious disease outbreak in Kupwara village
Tumina (Kupwara), Mar 13: At least eight children in this frontier village, about 32 kms from Kupwara, have been disabled in past one month due to outbreak of a mysterious disease. Residents of snowbound Tumina village nestled in Shamsbari mountain range are finding it hard to tackle the crisis as more and more children are [...]
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Mysterious disease outbreak in Kupwara village
Tumina (Kupwara), Mar 13: At least eight children in this frontier village, about 32 kms from Kupwara, have been disabled in past one month due to outbreak of a mysterious disease. Residents of snowbound Tumina village nestled in Shamsbari mountain range are finding it hard to tackle the crisis as more and more children are [...]
