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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This article is authored by Dr Bhupendra Tripathi, deputy director, Infectious Diseases and Vaccine Delivery, Gates ...

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 ...

Nagpur: Lymphatic filariasis (LF) is an irreversible disease and generally the patient meet a tragic end due to several complications from immobilization. Against this backdrop, a whopping 412 ...

Battling Lymphatic Filariasis for most of her life, it has become a struggle for 63-year-old Edna (not her real name) to move around as the disease has progressively degenerated her body, but she ...

The initiative is part of the National Filaria Elimination Programme and will be implemented under the supervision of the Department of Medical Health, with support from organizations like the WHO, ...

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, ...