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Around 11,000 people have been diagnosed with dengue while 34 deaths due to the disease have been reported within the first four months of this year alone. The Health Ministry stated that it will take immediate steps to control the spread of dengue in the coming months. A special dengue prevention campaign will be launched in collaboration with the police, state institutions and schools, the Health Ministry revealed while adding that special circulars distributed to various institutions will be activated again. The Health Ministry reported that the highest numbers of dengue cases were reported from 50 different Medical Officer Divisions in 10 Districts. The Public Health Inspectors of the 50 divisions will be brought to Colombo today (May 7) and advised on dengue prevention.

Pictured here Dr. Deborah Persaud, a virologist at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, is among the doctors who studied the girl’s blood. Using the most sensitive tests available, they found tiny amounts of HIV “particles” but no virus capable of replicating, the research team reported. For the first time, doctors are reporting that a child born with HIV and put on an unusually aggressive treatment regimen has been functionally cured of the infection. Now 2 years old, the Mississippi girl has only trace amounts of HIV in her bloodstream and has been able to keep the virus that causes AIDS in check without the help of medication, doctors said Sunday at a medical conference in Atlanta. If researchers demonstrate that the same treatment can work in other children, it could drastically alter the lives of the estimated 1,000 babies born with HIV every day, most of them in Africa, doctors said. “If there is a trial that shows this can happen again, then this will be very impo...