Iranian
technology to control dengue
Authorities in Haryana’s Gurgaon district will experiment
with an eco-friendly larvicide prepared by an Iranian company to control the
spread of dengue and malaria, a spokesman said in Chandigarh on Monday.
A delegation of scientists from Iran Monday met senior
officials of the Gurgaon administration and municipal corporation and gave a
presentation on how the larvicide could control the spread of these diseases.
The delegation offered to give a sample of its technology.
‘This exercise will be completely on no commitment, no costs
basis. If the results are found to be fruitful, as per the claims of the
delegation, then the larvicide would be used in whole of district Gurgaon on
experimental basis as a pilot project,’ the spokesman said.
He said that the delegation had claimed that the larvicide
is eco-friendly and only kills larva of mosquitoes.
‘It is harmless to plants, animals and even human beings.
The water with this larvicide is safe for human consumption as well,’ the
spokesman said, quoting the delegation.
The delegation claimed that since 2000, when this larvicide
was used in Iran to control malaria, number of cases of the disease reduced
from 20,000 to less than 1,000 annually. It has been used in countries like
Oman, Sudan, Turkey, Thailand, Nigeria and Malaysia, he added.
Source: http://health.india.com
29.10.2013
Is the era
of antibiotics over?
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta has
announced that the world has reached ‘the end of the antibiotics era period’.
‘Humans and livestock have been overmedicated to the point that bacteria have
grown so resistant to antibiotics that we are now in the post-antibiotic era,’
said Arjun Srinivasan, associate director at CDC.
The WHO had earlier warned that simple infections would no
longer have a cure and the blame was on the overuse and the misuse of
antibiotics for the situation. . ‘We’ve fuelled this fire of bacterial
resistance. These drugs are miracle drugs… but we haven’t taken good care of
them over the 50 years.’
Doctors according to him are running out of therapies to
tackle infections that could be easily treated earlier. ‘There are
bacteria that we encounter … that are resistant to nearly all — or, in some
cases, all — the antibiotics that we have available to us,’ he said.
Source: http://health.india.com
29.10.2013
Every man must
decide whether he will walk in the light of creative selflessness or in the
darkness of destructive selfishness
Martin
Luther King Jr
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