Skip to content Menu
Science Chronicle

Science Chronicle

A Science and Technology Blog

Sidebar
  • Home
  • PODCASTS
  • About
  • ARCHIVES
  • Award for R. Prasad

Category: Litchi

Posted on June 26, 2019June 27, 2019

It is safe to eat litchi fruit: Jacob John

Following the death of over 100 children in Muzaffarpur and a few more districts in Bihar due to hypoglycaemic encephalopathy, litchi sales has witnessed a 15-20% drop. According to a…

Continue Reading
Posted on June 19, 2019June 19, 2019

Explained: How litchi toxin is causing deaths in undernourished children in Muzaffarpur

Explained: How hypoglycaemic encephalopathy, which has caused most of the deaths in children in Muzaffarpur, is very different from encephalitis. And how the toxin in litchi is causing low blood…

Continue Reading
Posted on June 18, 2019June 18, 2019

Litchi toxin kills over 100 children in Muzaffarpur

The death of over 100 children in about a month in Muzaffarpur district of north Bihar due to low blood sugar level is caused by a toxin present in litchi…

Continue Reading
Posted on February 11, 2017February 11, 2017

Waking up to MCPG toxin’s role in causing litchi mystery disease

There is evidence that as late as March 2014, Delhi’s National Centre for Disease Control, India (NCDC) and Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta (CDC) researchers were in the…

Continue Reading
Posted on February 5, 2017February 11, 2017

Lancet gets in touch with Current Science authors on litchi disease ethics issue

In response to an article I wrote on February 3 about Dr. Jacob John raising ethics issues about the way the authors of the Lancet Global Health paper had failed to properly acknowledge…

Continue Reading
Posted on February 3, 2017June 27, 2017

Litchi: Controversy erupts over Muzaffarpur mystery disease study

The scientist who investigated the mystery disease that proved fatal for many 15-year old children in Muzaffarpur, Bihar at the instance of the State government has raised ethics issues about…

Continue Reading
Posted on February 1, 2017June 17, 2019

Toxins in litchi kill children in Bihar

Unexplained illness in children aged 15 years and younger in Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India, which claims many lives during an outbreak that occurs in May-June, has been solved. Scientists from the…

Continue Reading
Follow Science Chronicle on WordPress.com

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 10,782 other followers

Archives

Social

  • View Prasad.Ravindranath’s profile on Facebook
  • View @RPrasad12’s profile on Twitter
  • View Prasad.Ravindranath@gmail.com’s profile on Google+

Recent Posts

  • In a major shift, India fast-tracks restricted use approval for vaccines developed in other countries April 13, 2021
  • COVID-19: Protection against reinfection may last only for months April 11, 2021
  • India will add four million more cases by May 1, says Giridhara Babu April 10, 2021
  • 180 deaths following COVID-19 vaccination reported in India April 9, 2021
  • Health Ministry reveals the names of SEC members for vaccine approval April 5, 2021

Most Read Posts

  • IGIB: In vaccinated people, Covishield first dose is highly immunogenic if already infected
  • COVID-19: Protection against reinfection may last only for months
  • No correlation between Ct values of PCR test and COVID-19 severity
  • In a major shift, India fast-tracks restricted use approval for vaccines developed in other countries
  • India will add four million more cases by May 1, says Giridhara Babu
  • Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev, stop spreading vaccine misinformation
  • 'Serum’s pneumococcal vaccine will be available by June 2020'
  • Home
  • PODCASTS
  • About
  • ARCHIVES
  • Award for R. Prasad
  • Home
  • PODCASTS
  • About
  • ARCHIVES
  • Award for R. Prasad
Create a website or blog at WordPress.com
Top
Follow Science Chronicle on WordPress.com

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 10,782 other followers

Archives

Cancel

 
Loading Comments...
Comment
    ×