The infection of intestinal flukes is endemic in a big area of Saharsa District and is a great public health problem. It has affected mostly the poor people and has devitalised such a population leading to a great economic loss. In order to study the life cycle and source of infection of F. buski about two thousands snails from different tanks and pools of the affected areas were studied. Out o...

The: average citizen of the larger towns in Bengal is aware that there are large numbers of begging lepers in the streets. When he thinks of leprosy, he thinks of these unfortunate people, but he seldom asks himself how and why they have reached this terrible state of deformity and wretchedness? The leper beggar of the street is the finished article; where does he come from and what are the sta...

In this paper we study boundary integral formulations of the interior and exterior Dirichlet problem for the bi{Laplacian in a plane domain with a piecewise smooth boundary having corner points. The mapping properties of single and double layer bihar-monic potentials, of the Calderon projections and the Poincar e-Steklov operators for such domains are analysed. We derive direct boundary integra...

Phytochemical quantification and analysis of antimicrobial activities of Acacia nilotica from 12 different locations in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh were performed against E. coli, P. aeruginosa, S. aureus and B. subtilis. Our data suggests that out of all eight phytochemicals tested, bark of the plant contained variety of compounds in comparison to leaves. Out of our 12 samples, alm...

The mystery disease that is provisionally referred to as Acute encephalitis syndrome is unfailingly back, casting its deadly spell over the young children of Muzaffarpur and neighbouring districts of the State of Bihar, Northern India. The mystery of etiology remains a misery for everyone from families of hundreds of victims who have already succumbed to this illness this year to the health off...

Filariasis is a major health problem in tropical countries, including India. The disease is endemic all over India, especially in Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Orissa, Bihar, Jharkhand, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and Gujarat. A heavy parasitic load may appear in the blood, urine with chyle, and at times in scrotal aspirates. It is very unusual to find microfilaria in thyroid aspirate. Here, we presen...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE Of the two reservoirs of infection of kala-azar i.e., patients of kala-azar and post kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis (PKDL), PKDL provides easy access for the sandfly to pick up the parasites. In the last epidemic of 1977 in India, the importance of PKDL as a potential cause of increase in number of kala-azar cases was ignored. During recent years, we found an increase in ...

The Central Institute of Psychiatry provides extension consultation services at two coalfield hospitals of Bihar, representing the intermediate and central level of health care delivery system. Analysis of data covering a period of one year, from September 1988 to August 1989, revealed significant differences in the utilization pattern of the two centres. The differences relate to the proportio...

A 21 year old right handed male resident of Bihar presented with 4 years history of gradual onset progressive st i f fness in both thighs and calves which improves on continued activity along with hypertrophy of muscles of all the limbs and dimpling on hitting over thigh and hands. He also has history of inability to walk fast or run and delayed opening of left eye after forceful closure of bot...

Gurmeet Singh, Rita Chauhan, Rajesh Kumar Ranjan, M. Balakrishna Prasad and AL. Ramanathan* School of Environmental Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 110 067, India Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi 110 068, India School of Earth, Biological and Environmental Sciences, Central University of Bihar, Patna 800 014, India Earth System Sciences Interdisciplinary Center...