AIM On the basis of identified source of major bacterial infections at four agro-climatic zones in West Bengal the cost-effective biosecurity strategy was formulated for backyard poultry farmers. The aim of the present study was to assess the adoption. So, the study was aimed to detect the adoption level of the formulated biosecurity strategy to mitigate the Salmonella and Escherichia coliweek ...

While many studies attempted to evaluate performance of immunization programmes in developing countries by full coverage, there is a growing awareness about the limitations of such evaluation, irrespective of the overall quality of performance. Availability of human resources, equipment, supporting drugs, and training of personnel are considered to be crucial indicators of the quality of immuni...

1. department of pathology, burdwan medical college, burdwan, west bengal, india 2. department of pathology, bankura sammilani medical college, bankura, west bengal, india                   corresponding author: nirmalya chakrabarti, md; tel: (+91) 9477882332 email: [email protected] received: 06 july 2014 accepted: 03 feb. 2015 iran j cancer prev. 2015; 2:129-33.     abstract among...

There is well documented relationship between dermatoglyphics and specific syndromes of genetic origins. Since beta-thalassemia is a major genetic disorder in West Bengal, India, therefore, rapid diagnosis of major beta thalassemia along with certain preventive measures is of utmost significance. The aim of the present study was to understand the association of the finger prints patterns among ...

While many studies attempted to evaluate performance of immunization programmes in developing countries by full coverage, there is a growing awareness about the limitations of such evaluation, irrespective of the overall quality of performance. Availability of human resources, equipment, supporting drugs, and training of personnel are considered to be crucial indicators of the quality of immuni...

Article Type: Full Length Research Article Dengue epidemics are becoming a regular scary event every few years leading to significant mortality and morbidity; involving the whole of West Bengal, India. A hospital record based cross-sectional study with complete enumeration was conducted to analyse the overall seropositivity among the clinically suspected dengue cases referred to the rural terti...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Japanese encephalitis (JE) is the most important cause of acute and epidemic viral encephalitis. Every year sporadic JE cases are reported from the various districts of West Bengal, indicating its endemicity in this state. JE vaccination programme has been undertaken by the State Health Department of West Bengal. This study was aimed at seeing the present scenario of J...

Government services in electronic format are improving service delivery more effective, transparent and faster. Adopting of e-Governance is helping to reach out all the government services at door step anywhere and anytime to all the stake holders. In this journey, Government of West Bengal (GoWB) doesn’t much more behind from other states in India, trying to roll out all government services th...

An epidemic of Koro which occured in West Bengal has been described. Theories for the genesis of Koro as epidemic have been discussed. It has been shown that the present epidemic was related to social tensions.