(Mental Floss)-- When it comes to parasites, it's all about perspective. You may call a lifetime of growing and feeding off another organism lazy, but we call it opportunistic. In fact, these ...

Barabanki topped the MDA campaign for filariasis, convincing 93% of refusers to take medicine, covering 98.9 lakh people in ...

A significant achievement of the campaign was its success in convincing 93% of those who initially refused to take the ...

Lucknow: In mass drug administration (MDA) campaign against filariasis organised by state health and family welfare department, over 95 lakh persons took the preventive medication, said an official ...

Copyright: © 2025 Published by Elsevier Ltd. A nearly 5-minute-long film, Filaria se Fight (meaning fight against filaria) depicts how some people in a village in ...

And with India setting its sights on eliminating filaria by 2027, these murals aren’t just paintings—they’re milestones in a national movement. This initiative exemplifies how creative ...

The campaign covers 111 endemic districts across 13 States with door-to-door administration of filaria prevention medications. The State Health Ministers who participated in the meeting included Shri ...

Beginning Monday, the filaria prevention medications will be administered door-to-door and “free of cost to over 17.5 crore population across 111 endemic districts,” Nadda said while launching the ...

The government is committed to making India Lymphatic Filariasis-free by 2027, Union Health Minister J P Nadda said on Monday while seeking active community involvement to achieve the goal.

The campaign covers 111 endemic districts across 13 states with door-to-door administration of filaria prevention medications. Noting that Lymphatic Filariasis, popularly known as ‘Hathi Paon ...

Ranchi: Filaria cases in Ranchi district are on the rise over the past few years in spite of the mass drug administration (MDA) campaign, health department data revealed. Filaria, caused by ...

India: New Delhi has woken up to a saffron sunrise following the BJP's massive win in the capital, defeating the Aam Aadmi Party. Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed BJP workers after the party's ...