Mymensingh's SK Hospital treated 20,073 people for animal bites and scratches from January to August, 5,955 of them under 15; vaccine is in stock, but dog vaccination has stopped.
OpinionOn the international day of awareness of food loss and waste, researcher Pavel Partha writes that Bangladesh loses about 3.5 million tonnes of food a year, some 82 kg a person, and needs a national roadmap.
Dirty grounds and blocked drains at many Dhaka schools and colleges are breeding Aedes mosquitoes, and the district administration has ordered head-led 'Clean School Teams'.
At least 53 people in Rangpur, Dinajpur and Gaibandha, 37 of them in Sundarganj, have been treated for anthrax symptoms in a month after sick cattle were slaughtered and their meat shared.
Bogura farmers sell pointed gourd and cucumber at Tk 30 a kilo while the same vegetables fetch Tk 50-60 ten kilometres away, and the diesel-driven rise in freight adds well under a taka a kilo.
EnvironmentThe mouth of the Atrakhali, a branch of the Someshwari in Netrokona, was sealed by a road for sand trucks, leaving the river a sandbank, riverside fields without irrigation and native fish gone.
Twenty-nine of the 130 patients at Pirganj upazila health complex in Rangpur have dengue, while only 9 of 23 doctor posts are filled and caesarean services have stopped.
No consignment of Chandpur or Padma hilsa has reached Rangpur's City Bazar in a year, traders say, yet Chattogram and Cox's Bazar fish are sold under those names, lit to look fresh.
A photo story from Dimer Char, a quiet stretch of beach and mangrove where the Sundarbans meets the Bay of Bengal.
At a World Heart Day roundtable, specialists said about 80 per cent of heart disease is preventable but treatment in Bangladesh remains costly and concentrated in Dhaka.
AgrotechA 35.3-kilowatt agrivoltaic system in Nakla, Sherpur produced more than 39,000 kilowatt-hours in its first year while turmeric under the panels outyielded the open field.
Started with three crossbred goats, the farm now has about 25 Beetals after four years; unlike local Black Bengals, they leave surplus milk after feeding their kids.
CropsScientist Abed Chowdhury says his Panchabrihi rice gave one boro and two aus crops from a single planting, 19 tonnes a hectare in all, and that a shade-tolerant rice for growing under solar panels is on trial.
