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

Rise and fall of a pathogen

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

Curse of infections

Troubled future

Fun time for fungi

Fungal infections stalk the corridors hospitals in the Capital

Rats on the rampage

Trapping the killer

The toxins of war

Are chemicals used during the Gulf War causing sperm mutations among the war's soldiers?

Steer clear!

The mouth trap

Latest studies on rhesus monkeys point to the risk of contracting the AIDS virus via the mouth

Odyssey of a disease

From sheep to cattle and then to human beings, spongiform encephalopathies, a group of fatal brain maladies, have caught the attention of …

On a come-back trail

Death-watch

Cause of death: poverty

Metal shield

Why we are bugged

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Wising up after the quake

No money for labs in antibiotics research

Though increasing bacterial resistance to antibiotics is making it difficult to treat diseases such as malaria, pharmaceutical companies do not …

TB threat as acute as AIDS

Infectious diseases are still the largest cause of death in the world and tuberculosis remains the leader.

AIDS increases TB death risk

People infected with the AIDS virus are more susceptible to tuberculosis, and this further reduces their chances of survival.

A clean kill

It seems that cleanliness has been overrated

Tourism biggest casualty