Contents
- Eloquently Reticent
- A Health Emergency : Polio
- Taking a Holistic Approach to Dengue
ELOQUENTLY RETICENT
Why in news?
SC mandated government to review the curbs on internet in JK, following the abrogation of article 370.
What did SC tell ?
- An indefinite ban on the Internet is impermissible, but fails to direct the restoration of services. When it says Section 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure “cannot be used as a tool to prevent the legitimate expression of opinion or grievance or exercise of any democratic rights.
- It also said that, any reasonable restriction on fundamental rights, be it an Internet ban or a Section 144 order, will have to survive the test of proportionality.
A HEALTH EMERGENCY : POLIO
Why in news?
- Based on the risk of poliovirus, WHO said that polio will continue to remain a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) for three months starting 2020
- There were 156 cases of wild polio type1 cases in 2019 compared with 28 in 2018. besides causing polio in children, it was also found In environment in Pakistan.
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Prevalence of polio.
- In 2018, a total of 8,60,000 children in Afghanistan did not receive polio vaccine due to security threats.
- The situation did not improve in 2019 and, as a result, a large cohort of children in the southern region of the country remains unprotected.
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TAKING A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO DENGUE
Why in news?
- Tetravalent vaccine has been discovered to treat dengue. This offers 80% protection to children vaccinated between 4-16 years.
More about Dengue
- Dengue is essentially a tropical disease that occurs in the countries around the Equator, hot weather and intermittent rainfall favour the sustenance of Aedes aegypti the vector transmitting the dengue virus and Aedes albopictus, a minor contributor
Prevalence of Dengue
- Countries do not have adequate health professionals to treat infections of dengue
- Most of the cases of dengue are underreported to avoid panic amoung common public.
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Medication
- WHO and the Indian government, provided guidelines for complementary medicines like Nilavembu kudineer (a Siddha medicine) and papaya leaf extract are rampant among the people.