Science & Technology - Briefs

Light pollution spreads diseases

It is difficult to comprehend modern life sans nighttime light. But the amenity comes at a price. Bruno A S De Medeiros and Alessandro Barghini …

Unknowing vectors

Humans may be transmitting new and dangerous viruses to Antarctica

Less species, more diseases

Researchers blame increased human population

Drugs on EMI

People in an extremely backward Haryana town, where almost every fifth person has hepatitis C, are forced to seek treatment on EMIs

Marauding Marburg

A viral disease that has no cure leaves a trail of death

Human factor in swine flu

Infection threat from clean hospitals too

Dengue shadow over FIFA 2014

Three of the 12 games venues in Brazil—Natal, Fortaleza, and Recife—carry high-alert warning

Curative resolve

A dose of political will, backed by communication skills, can help combat infectious diseases

Inextricably linked

A United Nations report highlights the connection between environment and health

Grim reminder

A fleeting reappearance of plague exposes India's lack of preparedness

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MERS virus may spread to India post Haj

Researchers predict spread of acute respiratory syndrome that originated in the Middle East by studying population movements; Mumbai, Kozhikode …

Totally drug resistant TB: government in denial mode

Health ministry deputes team to Mumbai; says neither WHO nor tuberculosis control programme recognise TDR-TB

Catching viruses

Brand new infectious maladies such as Jacobson's disease have begun to plague the world, despite better sanitation and medication in developed …

Who are you?

Suffering SARS

Is the crisis spawned by this new viral infection a failure of global health governance?

Caught off guard

SARS unravelled

The pathogen's path