Motorcycles are popular in Asian countries including Sri Lanka and it is becoming an important part of transportation in the country. Despite its popularity, little research has been conducted to study the impact of motorcycles on road safety in Sri Lanka. The objective of this study was to investigate the risk factors of crashes involving motorcycles. Data was obtained from Police crash record...

Sri Lanka provides an ideal opportunity for the study of the effect of geology on human health. The vast majority of the people of Sri Lanka still live in rural areas within areas termed geochemical provinces. Very broadly, one could say that a geochemical province has characteristic chemical composition in soil, water stream sediments and rocks, enabling their delineation from others. The chem...

Notosacantha bertounesquei sp. nov. is described from Kerala state in southern India. This new species belongs to the group of two large species hitherto known only from Sri Lanka. Checklist and key to Notosacantha species of Sri Lanka and southern India are provided.

The number of cases and severity of disease associated with dengue infection in Sri Lanka has been increasing since 1989, when the first epidemic of dengue hemorrhagic fever was recorded. We identified a new dengue virus 1 strain circulating in Sri Lanka that coincided with the 2009 dengue epidemic.

Descriptions of 13 new Naarda species, N. cingulata (Thailand), N. imitata (Cambodia), N. hallasana (Korea), N. calligrapha (India, Burma and Indonesia: Buru Island), N. felinopsis (Vietnam), N. furcipalpa (Brunei), N. uthanti (Burma), N. capreola (Cambodia), N. leptosigna (Sri Lanka), N. nigrissima (Cambodia, Thailand and Taiwan), N. bicolora (Cambodia), N. gigaloba (Sri Lanka) and N. numismat...

Foot and mouth disease (FMD) has devastated the cattle industry in Sri Lanka many times in the past. Despite its seriousness, limited attempts have been made to understand the disease to ameliorate its effects-current recommendation for vaccines being based solely on immunological assessments rather than on molecular identification. The general belief is that the cattle population in Sri Lanka ...

Method The study was conducted in the largest children’s hospital in Sri Lanka. The children with radiological rickets were included in the study. Patients with chronic renal failure and liver failure were excluded. The study was conducted from 2012 June to 2014 June. Data obtained from the department of chemical Pathology Lady Ridgeway Hospital Sri Lanka. Vitamin D level was measured using Che...

IUCN Category: Vulnerable, A2cd CITES Listing: Appendix I Scientific Names: Melursus ursinus (occasionally Ursus ursinus); Melursus ursinus ursinus in India, Nepal, Bhutan, and Bangladesh; Melursus ursinus inornatus in Sri Lanka Common Names: sloth bear; Northern India and Nepal: bhalu; India: rinch, reech, richwa, asval, karadi, puni karadi, elugu bunti; Sri Lanka: walaha (male), waelahinna (f...

Department of Chemistry, University of Kelaniya, Kelaniya, Sri Lanka Z. Naturforsch. 43c, 790-792 (1988); received May 6/July 1, 1988 Leucinodis orbonalis, Lepidoptera, Pyralidae, Sex Pheromone, (£)-l 1-Hexadecenyl acetate (F)-ll-Hexadecenyl acetate is the major volatile component of the sex pheromone gland of female Leucinodis orbonalis collected from Sri Lanka. (-E')-ll-hexadecen-l-ol was als...

Rabies virus exists in dogs on Sri Lanka as a single, minimally divergent lineage only distantly related to other rabies virus lineages in Asia. Stable, geographically isolated virus populations are susceptible to local extinction. A fully implemented rabies-control campaign could make Sri Lanka the first Asian country in >30 years to become free of rabies virus.