Baboon aids
Woes of the world
It is mostly the preventable diseases which lead to fatal maladies due to negligence that hold our lives in stake, reveals the 1994 WHO report
Life positive
With infectious diseases well under control in the developed world, it is the non-infectious diseases that now threaten us
Scientists propose Controlled Human Infection Model studies
In CHIM, researchers infect healthy participants with a weakened strain of a pathogen in a controlled setting to learn more about the infection …
Espying bacteria
Bad blood
Change is needed
The guests who came to kill
A new study suggests that the more the number of hosts a parasite feeds on, the more virulent it becomes
Killer on the prowl
Plaguing the question
Is HIV harmless?
A group of scientists believe that HIV does not cause the dreaded Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
Bacterial transfers
Temperature increase could accelerate rise in antibiotic resistance
Temperature and population density could facilitate transmission and thus increase in antibiotic resistance, say scientists
Gorakhpur child deaths not the only case of mismanagement in government hospitals
There is no scientific consensus on the cause of encephalitis that has been claiming lives every year in the Gorakhpur region since 1978. But an …
Rise and fall of a pathogen
How did tuberculosis cease to be a deadly killer in the West?
Curse of infections
Troubled future
Catching viruses
Brand new infectious maladies such as Jacobson's disease have begun to plague the world, despite better sanitation and medication in developed …
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 …
Nipah virus returns to Kerala, Ernakulam man tested positive
The state government was awaiting National Institute of Virology’s report which confirmed the presence of the virus that killed 17 …
Nipah outbreak synonymous with India's ill-preparedness to deal with health crises
Nipah virus is part of a clutch of emerging pandemics threatening the world due to global warming and environmental pressure
IIT Hyderabad develops device to detect infectious diseases at low costs
The device can help detect infection on the first day of being infected and can be used without the help of a technician
Mother Teresa, the saint who fought against stigma of leprosy
She established a number of mobile leper clinics as early as September 1957
Fun time for fungi
Fungal infections stalk the corridors hospitals in the Capital
Rats on the rampage