Diarrhoea patients on rise at ICDDR’B: September 14, 2008

Diarrhoea patients on rise at ICDDR’B, Mahakhali, Dhaka.
Photo: Focus Bangla

Malaria kills 193 people, affects 56,789 last year in CHT

70 upazilas of 13 districts of the country are more vulnerable to malaria

Malaria, a serious infectious disease, claimed some 193 lives and infected 56,789 people last year in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) region, according to official figures.Unofficial sources, however, claimed that the death(The Bangladesh Today)

শব্দের কোলাহলে ডুবে যাচ্ছে ঢাকা

বেশ কয়েক বছর আগের কথা। আমি আর সাংবাদিক আবুল মোমেন গেছি জেনেভায়। সেখানকার বাংলাদেশ দূতাবাসে ছিলেন আবদুল মান্নান। পরবর্তীকালে নির্বাচন কমিশনে অতিরিক্

Jaundice: A slow killer disease

Jaundice, also known as icterus (attributive adjective: "icteric"), is yellowish discoloration of the skin, sclerae (whites of the eyes) and mucous membranes caused by hyperbilirubinemia (increased levels of bilirubin in the blood). This hyperbilirubinemia subsequently causes increased levels of bilirubin in the extracellular fluids.

Inhaling poisonous air every day

Although the city dwellers are breathing severely polluted air for long with many suffering from different diseases, the government has yet to make any visible intervention to control the pollution. The gaseous pollutants in city air decreased significantly in the wake of banning two-stroke engines half a decade ago. But now the quantity of floating dust and other smaller particles has reached an alarming level again.

Bird flu: Two lakh chickens culled during last two weeks

More than 200,000 chickens were culled at different poultry farms across the country during over the last two weeks, said an official of the Livestock Ministry yesterday.

Avian influenza has spread to 47 out 64 districts in the country and forced the killing of more than 1.5 million birds since March of last year. Nearly two million eggs also destroyed.