ABSTRACT
Weekly markets of Manderdisha, Hatikhali, Lungting, Maibong have been surveyed at different seasons for one year. The Non-Timber Forest Plant Products were documented through interview with vendors and buyers, personal observation and these are documented with scientific names/families, local(Dimasa) names, plant parts used , purpose of use and selling price. Forty (40) plant species belonging to nineteen(19) different families and thirty nine (39) genera were collected and documented. Among these fifteen (15) were recorded as medicines,twenty (20) as food and five (5) for other utility. 95% of the vendors are ladies suggesting their valuable contribution to family for sustenance and they are good informants also. Conservation practices are not scientific and suggestions have been included in this paper.
ABSTRACT
Human thelaziasis is a zoonotic eye disease caused by a nematode parasite called Thelazia. In India, seven human cases of Thelazia have been reported earlier. This is the fi rst case report of an infant infected with Thelazia. During the month of July, 2012, the infant was presented with an eye problem to the eye clinic from a village of Dibrugarh. Five worms (three female and two male) were recovered from the left eye of the infant. Thelazia infection is rare in infant, and report of this case is suggestive of prevalence of infection in the area and warrants further investigation.