New estimates show 14.8 million children globally are HIV-exposed but uninfected
While many children who are HIV-exposed and also HIV-uninfected are growing and developing well, some face greater risks
Coronavirus: Passengers from China to be screened at Indian airports, advisory issued
Second death in China; second case in Thailand reported
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
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Coronavirus spreads to France, Australia, Malaysia; India tightens watch at 7 airports
China plans to stop interprovincial road transport to Beijing from January 26
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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
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Coronavirus hits India: One confirmed case in Kerala, says Centre
Patient stable, under observation in isolation
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आंध्रप्रदेश के इस इलाके में राष्ट्रीय औसत से दोगुने अधिक किडनी रोगी हैं, लेकिन अब तक कारण का पता नहीं लगाया जा सका है
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
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20 से अधिक देशों में कोरोनावायरस के फैलने के बाद विश्व स्वास्थ्य स्वास्थ्य संगठन ने ग्लोबल हेल्थ इमरजेंसी घोषित कर दी
चीन में फैले कोरोनावायरस की वजह से दुनिया भर में लग सकती है इमरजेंसी?
कोरोना वायरस की वजह से चीन में इमरजेंसी जैसे हालात हैँ, हालांकि विश्व स्वास्थ्य संगठन (डब्ल्यूएचओ) ने कहा है कि दुनिया भर में हेल्थ ...
Contours of coronavirus
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World Health Organization hints at possible pandemic