The Uttar Pradesh government has decided to launch a three-week intensive campaign in 47 districts to eradicate Filaria from Uttar Pradesh. Filaria campaign in Uttar Pradesh will start from 25 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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," ...

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 ...

Sabin Vaccine Institute and Global Network have rolled out a two minute film that has been conceptualised by Ogilvy & Mather Mumbai. The film falls in line with the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare ...

For those who don’t know, Filaria or Lymphatic Filariasis or Elephantiasis is a tropical disease that isn’t known to many. This disease causes lymphatic system impairment which leads to abnormal ...

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 ...

BHUBANESWAR: Odisha government will start one more round of mass drug administration (MDA) in two phases for eradication of filaria in the State. The drive will be conducted from February 10 to 19 in ...