Antibiotic resistance: AMR a health threat in Uganda

Worries: Self-medication, antibiotic sales without prescription

Antibiotic resistance: How Zambia is trying to reign in AMR

Antibiotic abuse dog the country like many of its counterparts in Africa

Are you in danger of catching the coronavirus? 5 questions answered

What you should know about the novel Coronavirus

Coronavirus spreads to France, Australia, Malaysia; India tightens watch at 7 airports

China plans to stop interprovincial road transport to Beijing from January 26

How contagious is the Wuhan coronavirus and can you spread it before symptoms start?

How bad is it? Why does it spread so fast? A biosecurity expert answers common queries on coronavirus

Antibiotic resistance: Spread across the world

Asia and Africa will account for 88.8 per cent of deaths from antimicrobial resistance

Antibiotic resistance: A new dose

How the world is gearing up to fight antibiotic resistance

Coronavirus hits India: One confirmed case in Kerala, says Centre

Patient stable, under observation in isolation

Re-creating live-animal markets in the lab lets researchers see how pathogens like coronavirus jump species

Within markets like the one in Wuhan, there are abundant opportunities for the type of interactions that promote pathogen transmission among species

False information fuels fear during disease outbreaks: There is an antidote

Editors and journalists no longer control the flow of news and opinion. Anyone can generate and distribute text, images, sound clips and video on …

Arsenic: Lurking in the shadows across Ganga, Brahmaputra basins

As the geography of arsenic contamination spreads, there is an urgent need for governments to reorient mitigation measures. That’s because …

Why do bats keep cropping up during virus outbreaks

The more bats are under stress, the greater is the risk from viruses

Coronavirus outbreak: A new mapping tool that lets you scroll through timeline

To provide a clearer picture of an evolving story, the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine has developed a new outbreak-…

Lassa fever: Why there’s a call to declare a health emergency in Nigeria

The Nigerian Academy of Science has called for the current outbreak of Lassa fever in Africa’s most populous nation to be declared a …

Outbreaks like coronavirus start in and spread from the edges of cities

The new coronavirus crossed the animal-human divide at a market in Wuhan, one of the largest Chinese cities and a major transportation node

Union budget 2020-21 - explained in 15 charts

Nirmala Sitharaman's budget has little to offer rural India. Allocation to several schemes were slashed below 2019-20 revised estimates&…

Simply Put: Guidelines to counter epidemic

Revealed: Protein ‘spike’ that lets novel coronavirus pierce, invade human cells

Knowing the structure of the virus’s spike protein gives us crucial information about exactly how the virus infects host cells

Contours of coronavirus

Given near-certain shocks awaiting our world, it's time to rethink globalisation

COVID-19: Is South Korea new epicentre outside China

World Health Organization hints at possible pandemic

COVID-19: Are we prepared for a pandemic?

No. The world has not even made a start

Vaccines without needles: New shelf-stable film could revolutionise how medicines are distributed worldwide

A research group claims to have developed a method to stabilise live viruses and other biological medicines in a rapidly dissolving film that …

Coronavirus mutated, new strain more aggressive: Research

Though older, less aggressive ‘S type’ strain seems to be more frequent now than ‘L type’

Simply Put: Coronavirus in India

Coronavirus: How hand sanitisers protect against infections

This factsheet tells you what hand sanitisers comprise and how they work