Predicting epidemics isn’t easy. We’ve created a global dataset to help

A better understanding of how different infectious diseases spread across countries can help establish early warning mechanisms and response protocols

Rare Disease Day: 475 million across the world affected by rare diseases, says study

Rare Disease Day is observed on February 29

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Madness again

BSE spreads to sheep

Bloody disclosure

Lethal and tiny air pollutants can reach deep into human bloodstream

As thick smog rolling in

Cowed down

Tactical pressure

How unhealthy is red meat? How beneficial are vegetables? A new rating system could help you cut through health guidelines

The star-based rating system can offer decision-makers and consumers alike much-needed context before headline-grabbing health guidance is …

Can life exist sans DNA?

Stanley Prusiner, winner of the 1997 Nobel prize for medicine, devoted two decades of research to answer this question

Unfinished research

4 flu mutants

Seven eminent virologists discuss the implications with Down To Earth

A 19-year-old is the youngest person to be diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease — the cause is a mystery

Nearly all cases of Alzheimer’s disease in people younger than 30 are due to inherited faulty genes

Equatorial Guinea confirms first-ever Marburg virus outbreak, Cameroon on alert

Urgent meeting on Marburg virus by WHO today

Modulating pathogen functions control sheath blight disease: study

Millions of tonnes of rice are lost due to this disease every year

Beware of BSE

Penicillin can prevent latent rheumatic heart disease from progressing in children: Study

Further research needed to assess real-world implementation, population-based screening and initiation of prophylaxis

Infamy and after

Minamata in Japan and Bhopal in India. Two of the worst cases of chemical disaster to have hit the world this century. Years later, the …

Congo reports biggest mpox outbreak with first sexually transmitted cases in the world: WHO

As many as 22 of country's 26 provinces reported cases, total suspected cases almost three times the previous highest recorded in 2020

All that is bad

ends up in Africa? A suspect consignment reaches the shores of Kenya riling the natives

Mortality by degrees

Baboon aids

Life positive

With infectious diseases well under control in the developed world, it is the non-infectious diseases that now threaten us

Exploding the myth

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