Plagued by rats

In the months of August and September 1994, panic gripped the country as news of the plague epidemic in Surat spread. Few had cared to ponder …

Africa’s meningitis belt: why there’s a case for a booster vaccination drive

Vaccines that help prevent meningococcal disease don't give lifetime protection

Diphtheria doom

भारत में भी कोरोनावायरस की आहट, 10 में से 4 सैंपल नेगेटिव पाए गए

केंद्रीय स्वास्थ्य एवं परिवार कल्याण मंत्रालय के मुताबिक 23 जनवरी, 2020 को 60 विमानों के 12,828 यात्रियों की स्क्रीनिंग की गई है। जिन पर ...

Obesity, climate change and under-nutrition form a synergy of epidemics: Report

A Lancet Commission report says these three co-occur, interact with each other to produce complex sequelae and share common underlying societal …

Braindeath

‘World at highest risk of losing control of AIDS epidemic'

Mark Dybul, an American AIDS researcher and diplomat warned of a situation where the AIDs epidemic could spiral out of control, at the ongoing …

Pale and yellow

Shortage of vaccines has pushed many African countries to the brink of a yellow fever epidemic

Disease outbreak feared due to Chennai floods

A survey done in the city has found that 90 per cent population is unable to access safe water or food

Calcutta's sorrow

TANZANIA

Coronavirus: Expert fears global epidemic

Human-to-human transfer can lead to local epidemics, independent of Wuhan: Hong Kong expert

All you need to know about dengue

What is it, how does it spread, what are the symptoms and how is it treated?

Zambia

Misery compounded

Plagued by rats

In the months of August and September 1994, panic gripped the country as news of the plague epidemic in Surat spread. Few had cared to ponder …

Novel coronavirus outbreak not a pandemic: WHO

It is only an epidemic with multiple foresides as most cases are concentrated in China, says UN body

Antibodies will prevent recurrence of Zika for at least a decade, says study

48 countries have reported incidences of Zika fever since the first outbreak in 2015  

Protest against dengue at Delhi Secretariat

Protesters demanded that the Delhi government should declare dengue an epidemic and ensure that no hospital refuses to admit a dengue patient  

EGYPT

The flu is back

Swine flu cases in Gujarat have crossed 7,000 with 492 deaths. Worse, health experts fear a major outbreak in the state this winter

WHO gears up amid new coronavirus cases in Japan, Thailand after China

About 41 people in Wuhan were infected with the virus that was traced to a seafood market

Lassa fever kills 41 in Nigeria

The first case of the viral disease in the country was reported in November 2015

Roman tragedy

A mosquito brought down an empire that worlds' militaries couldn't

कोरोनावायरस के वैश्विक महामारी बनने का संदेह, भारत में एक भी मामला नहीं

शहरो को बंद किए जाने से इस समस्या पर लगाम बेहद मुश्किल है, ऐसा करने से भी प्रमुख शहरो में महामारी को फैलने से ...