Hepatitis E: Current Status in India and Other Asian Countries

Current Status of Asian Elephants in India

India holds by far the largest number of wild Asian elephants, estimated at about 26,000 to 28,000 or nearly 60% of the population of the species (Bist 2002; data from Project Elephant Directorate in 2011). Elephas maximus is placed in Schedule I and Part I of Indian Wildlife Protection Act (1972) conferring it the highest level of protection. Historically, the significance of the elephant in I...

Current Status of Hepatitis E Virus Infection in Korea

Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is an emerging pathogen associated with acute viral hepatitis, and HEV is becoming increasingly recognized. Approximately 2% of acute viral hepatitis is caused by HEV, and 18 cases of hepatitis E have been reported in Korea. Of these cases, only two have involved a history of travel from India, which suggests that they were imported cases. The remaining reported cases in...

Participation of Japan and other Asian countries

Global environmental issues are one of the most urgent problems in the present day world, not only in the field of sciences but also in the international social and political juncture. CFCs were found to deplete the ozone layer in the stratosphere, which covers the whole earth and protects the biosphere. The leakage of CFCs at any place in the world, therefore, is responsible for the biosphere....

Y Choromosomal Microdeletion Screening in The Workup of Male Infertility and Its Current Status in India

Strategies of Hepatitis B vaccine export to the Middle East and Central Asian countries

Introduction: This paper proposes an appropriate strategy for exporting Hepatitis B vaccine, manufactured by Pasteur Institute of Iran, to other countries. Methods: Eeffectiveness factors and their relative variables were found out by factor analysis method in SPSS software. Results: We could identify 6 main factors which can extremely affect the export of this product. We evaluated manufacture...