Fate sealed

Bird flu back

Fear of pandemic

Counting out pestilence

The patterns that diseases furrow among large sections of a population provide clues to check epidemics

The number of new flu viruses is increasing, and could lead to a pandemic

How is it the flu has managed to stay around for so long, and why haven't we beaten it yet?

Unravelling the Bombay plague

Room 000: Narratives Of The Bombay Plague is the story of the plague that killed thousands in Mumbai in the late 1890s. Very little was known …

Slippery bacillus

Despite desperate combing operations, the plague bacillus is playing hide-and-seek with doctors

The net widens

Rise and fall of a pathogen

How did tuberculosis cease to be a deadly killer in the West?

GABON

Experts in the dark

CHINA

Roche relents

The patent holder of bird flu drug agrees to talk on generics

Stagnation as a culture

WATER is for flowing. When made to stagnate, it buzzes deafeningly of a culture of deliberate ignorance. Look at the misfortune of the people of …

If bird flu arrives, what will India do?

India is a hotbed not only of strange diseases but of stranger disease surveillance and control institutions. Every year, known and unknown …

A patent row

Can the public sector take responsibility to develop drugs for neglected diseases?

The plague took us by surprise

ASHISH KUMAR MUKHERJEE is the Director General of Health Services (DGHS), and as the country's topmost health bureaucrat, was the man …

Health monitor

The government clears a new policy to monitor epidemics and reduce disaster impacts

Monsoon deaths

Embracing disease

The Jarawas of Andaman Islands are dying from a number of diseases

MALAYSIA

A burning problem

The foot-and-mouth scare assumes alarming proportions in the UK

UNITED NATIONS

RISKY IMPORT

Spreading the word

High toll

Mystery fever hits Arunachal