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

Espying bacteria

Bad blood

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 …

Progress against a neglected tropical disease in east Africa is under threat

Kalaazar is neglected because it is a disease of poverty

World TB Day: More men than women reported infection among India’s elderly

The prevalence percentage among men is almost double that among women.

Killer on the prowl

Plaguing the question

Bacterial transfers

Dengue outbreak in Brazil prompting emergency health measures

As the world gets increasingly warmer and wetter, mosquito-related disease outbreaks are predicted to rise and spread

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

Is HIV harmless?

A group of scientists believe that HIV does not cause the dreaded Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome

Rise and fall of a pathogen

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

Curse of infections

Troubled future

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 …

Nigeria’s missing virus hunters: University decline robs country of virologists

Nigeria should create an enabling environment for scientists to function effectively and maximally

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 …

Catching viruses

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

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