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 ...

Filaria taxideae n. sp. is described from the subcutaneous tissue of the ventral side of badgers, Taxidea taxus taxus (Schreber, 1778), from Albany County, Wyoming, and is also identified from Taxidea ...

THE subject-matter of the work referred to below may be considered under three headings: (1) The transmission of filaria by mosquitoes. In Fiji the carrier is mainly Stegomyia pseudoscutellaris. The ...

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 ...

After Gumla was identified as filaria-prone district, a mass drive to eradicate it was launched here on Monday. Filaria is caused by culex mosquito having a parasite of w-bancrofti and it is ...

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 ...

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 ...

Though the Regional Filaria Training and Research Centre came into existence in 1965 to eliminate filariasis, the disease is still prevalent in the region. VARANASI: Though the Regional Filaria ...

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 ...

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 ...

The monthly pension scheme for filaria patients announced by Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao has rekindled the hopes of around 2,886 patients in the district. Patients had been protesting for the ...

Bolpur, June 5: At least 50 persons, including a number of children, fell ill after consuming the anti-filaria medication distributed by a district health department team in Bolpur, around 170 km from ...