MARINE MALADY
Buffalo blight
Drug overkill
Irrational drug prescriptions are giving rise to drug-resistant bacteria
ECO COURT
Quake sickness
Quest for clean air
What is Alaskapox? A microbiologist explains the recently discovered virus that just claimed its first fatality
Alaskapox — a virus in the same family as smallpox, cowpox and mpox — claimed its first fatality in January 2024
Neglected Tropical Diseases Day: Poorest countries continue to be most affected, says WHO
UN body highlighted the tremendous effects COVID-19 had on community-based initiatives, access to healthcare facilities and healthcare goods …
100 million Nigerians are at risk of neglected tropical diseases: What the country is doing about it
Nigeria began concerted efforts to combat human and animal trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness and nagana) in 1947
Africans likely to live longer now; but will they live healthier?
The WHO said in a statement released August 4 that healthy life expectancy in its African region had increased on average by 10 years per person …
More Indians were diagnosed with hypertension than diabetes in 2017
Latest data from the National Health Profile 2017 confirms a previous study which said that hypertension is a bigger concern than diabetes in India
Feeding in asthma
Food that one finds allergic can cause problems in the respiratory tract according to a group of scientists inspecting children with breathing …
Frontier guards
Invaded and ravaged by germs and pathogens every moment of its existence, the human body has developed its own lines of defence. Among the …
Most disease maps unreliable
Disease maps help capture distribution of pathogens and their transmission intensity. An international team of researchers has reviewed 355 of …
The ill effects
Warming climate spawns disease epidemics
Still reeling
New SARS cases in China
Swine flu tamed?
H1N1 cases on the rise but doctors say the strain is behaving like seasonal flu
Rare Disease Day: 475 million across the world affected by rare diseases, says study
Rare Disease Day is observed on February 29
Humans susceptible to viral strains borne by chimpanzee
SIV strains mutate upon entering cells to overcome human-specific barriers to infection
Blueprint to tackle non-communicable diseases released
It has a list of good practices and gives structure to an otherwise unregulated field
Cops compensated
Ecological nightmare
EGYPT
CAMEROON
Choking effects
Workers suffer from respiratory ailments after cleaning World Trade Centre debris