The existence of a new virus with many of the epidemiological and clinical characteristics of the hepatitis A virus was first suggested following a waterborne outbreak in the Kashmir valley in India in 1978 (3). A few years later, the Soviet doctor Mikhail S. Balayan demonstrated a faecal-oral infection route by drinking a faecal extract from infected soldiers in a military camp in Afghanistan....

The Spotted Small Flat Sarangesa purendra (Moore, 1882) is a new addition to the butterfly checklist of Jammu and Kashmir Union Territory, India. This species sighted on 02 June 2019, in Dewal area Billawar while observing different pollinators by first author. Now this has now total 309 butterflies

The aim of this study was to develop a single comprehensive index of child mortality for longitudinal assessment of health status of children. The need for such a comprehensive index arose from conflicting trends in different child mortality indicators. The data for the study was taken from the Sample Registration System (SRS) reports of the Registrar General of India. SRS is known to provide r...

BACKGROUND Mortality studies can show the relative contribution of diabetes to mortality in the total population, and they can provide important descriptions of the changes in causes and frequency of diabetes mortality over time. OBJECTIVE To find the mortality pattern in people with diabetes admitted to a tertiary care hospital in a developing country, using underlying/contributory causes of...

Cystic echinococcosis (CE) is a dreadful zoonotic neglected disease that affects public health globally. The infection highly endemic in northern India (Kashmir valley). present survey based study was done to know the seroprevalence of cystic among residents north and central Kashmir valley identify risk variables linked this infection. In addition collecting 462 serum samples (244 males 218 fe...

Oral Presentations 881 Sponsored Sessions 900 Poster Presentations 902 Index 912 8th World Congress on Itch (WCI) 2015 September 27–29, 2015 at the Nara Kasugano International Forum IRAKA, Nara, Japan N A RA JA PA N 2 015 8th World Co ng re ss o n I t c h