Published Date: 2006-04-20 00:00:00
Subject: PRO/EDR> Malaria - India (Assam)
Archive Number: 20060420.1160
MALARIA - INDIA (ASSAM)
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Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006
From: Dr. Satadal Das <drsatdas@hotmail.com>
Source. The Statesman, Kolkata [edited]
<http://thestatesman.english.indiapress.info/>
Reports of more deaths indicate that the state's malaria situation is
worsening, causing more than 40 check-up camps to be set up in the
worst affected districts of Lakhimpur and Golaghat. A source in the
health department put the toll at 49 while informing The Statesman
that, so far, 3288 people had been affected.
Malaria was said to have claimed 24 lives in Lakhimpur, 14 in
Golaghat district, 5 in Jorhat, 3 in Marigaon, 2 in Sonitpur and one
in Nalbari. A 5-member team of the National Vector-borne Disease
Control Programme has arrived in the state to head for Lakhimpur.
Experts from the Kolkata-based All-India Institute of Hygiene and
Public Health are in Golaghat and Lakhimpur. An alert has been
sounded in such vulnerable districts as Karbi Anglong, North Cachar,
Kamrup and parts of Nagaon. Most tea plantation areas have been
identified as malaria-prone.
--
Dr. Satadal Das, M.D., D.C.P.
Consultant Microbiologist
Peerless Hospital & B. K. Roy Research Centre
360, Panchasayar, Kolkata- 700094, India
<drsatdas@hotmail.com>
[Lakhimpur and Galaghat districts are located in the state of Assam
in Northern India. Malaria is prevalent with frequent epidemics and
chloroquine resistance probably widespread, although precise data on
chloroquine resistance in Assam are lacking. See our posting from 7
Jan 2005 on drug resistance in malaria in India. - Mod.EP]
[For a map of India showing the location of Assam, see
<http://www.mapsofindia.com/maps/assam/assamlocation.htm>; for a map
of Lakhimpur district, see
<http://www.mapsofindia.com/maps/assam/districts/lakhimpur.htm>; and
for a map of Galaghat district, see:
<http://www.mapsofindia.com/maps/assam/districts/golaghat.htm> - Mod.MPP]
See Also
2005----
Malaria, resistant - India 20050107.0047
2004
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Malaria - India (Mumbai) 20041002.2716
Malaria - India, Myanmar: RFI 20040111.0120
2003
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Malaria - India (Haryana) (02) 20031018.2620
Malaria - India (Haryana) 20031005.2504
Malaria - India (Kerala): request for information 20030605.1378
2002
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Malaria - India (Assam) 20020613.4483
2001
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Malaria - India (Assam) 20010604.1102
2000
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Malaria - India (Uttar Pradesh) 20001017.1777
1999
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Malaria, vivax, resistant - India (Mumbai) 19990316.0389
1996
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Malaria - India, 1995 (5) 19960405.0652
Malaria - India, 1995 (4) 19960403.0625
Malaria - India, 1995 (3) 19960402.0619
Malaria - India, 1995 (2) 19960402.0617
Malaria - India, 1995: RFI 19960330.0590
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