The one-shot wonder

Athens's fall

Typhoid could have caused the fall of the powerful city state during the Peloponnesian wars, says a new study

Resisting arrest

Typhoid bacterium resilient to antibiotics

Drug from waste

Chitosan can provide protection against typhoid

Tainted meat

10-minute typhoid test

New technique can also detect the disease in early stages

Business in typhoid

New method developed for faster typhoid diagnosis

Developed by scientists at IIT, Delhi, the new test requires minimal blood quantity, besides being accurate and potentially cost-effective

Environmental changes, not resistant germs, reason for rise of epidemics, says study

Mutations in bacteria may eventually disappear, but this should not be seen as weakening the case of antibiotic resistance, say doctors

Simply put: Diseased India

Children under five account for 30 per cent of deaths due to food borne diseases globally: WHO

Calls food borne diseases a ‘global concern’

Scientists decode genes of the house fly

Understanding the fly genome could help us improve human health and the environment

Indian scientists decipher how Salmonella survives in human cells

Salmonella is the causative agent of typhoid and gastroentritis

Mumbai hit with diseases after rains

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