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Krishan B Kumar's Articles in Other Disease-Illness

  • Prevention Of The Plague Epidemic
    A long-term and active anti-plague drive is required at the national level, covering the entire country/population of both rats and man. Preventive steps are required even in normal times, but more vigorously when a plague epidemic is predicted. Specific measures must be undertaken when such a situation arises.

    1. Prediction of the plague epidemic

    Surveillance units can playa great role. Incidence of plague in wild/urban rats, and/or a fall in the wild/urban rat populat...
  • What Are The Warning Signals Of The Plague Epidemic?
    The disease is transmitted from rats to man by small insects, (about 2-4 mm) i.e. rat-fleas which act as vector, i.e. they only transmit the disease, but do not suffer from it. Rather, they derive their blood meals from the plague-infected rats till the rats die. While sucking blood from the infected rats, a large number of plague bacilli enter the stomach of rat-fleas where they multiply further. When such fleas bite a rat or man for getting their nourishment, they inject th...
  • Various Preventive Measures For Tetanus?
    1. Vaccination is the key for the prevention of this disease. Therefore, a strict vaccination schedule must be followed. Tetanus usually occurs among those persons who are either not vaccinated at all, or to whom proper dosages have not been given.

    Therefore, all children should be immunized and this immunization should be maintained throughout life by administering booster dosages of tetanus vaccine at regular intervals. Also, all pregnant mothers should get a cover of va...
  • Diseases Of The Abdomen And Ultrasonography
    Some diseases of the abdomen may also remain undetected for a long time. This is particularly true of gallbladder diseases - gallstones (cholelithiasis), inflammation of the gallbladder (cholecystitis), or even cancer of the gallbladder. Either gallstones or an inflamed gallbladder may lead to cancer of the gallbladder. Therefore, it is necessary to detect early cases of gallstones and inflamed gallbladder, so that once diagnosed, it can be removed surgically, and cancer of t...

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