Mystery stricken

Fever killed 277 in Uttar Pradesh. No one knows the cause

'Ebola is the result of environmental degradation'

Peter Hotez is the co-founder of the Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases that provides access to essential medicines for millions of …

World not prepared to cope with re-emerging infectious diseases: WHO Director General

Director General Margaret Chan was addressing the World Health Assembly being held in Geneva

A cattle crisis

The food-and-mouth disease spreads panic across the world and raises several questions about livestock culling

Rice remedy

Llama antibody makes rice a weapon against rotavirus

Moving target

Drug targets body’s immunity instead of virus to cut flu deaths

Avian havoc

Bird flu cases soaring in Vietnam

Saving papaya

What next?

Illegal pig import may be behind African swine fever outbreak in Manipur, say officials

Strict containment measures have been enforced in affected areas in the absence of a vaccine or treatment

Zika-the new global pandemic

After dengue and chikungunya, the Aedes mosquito is delivering a new emergency— Zika. Down To Earth looks into the reasons behind the …

Heat behind rise in mystery fever?

Yet to identify a pathogen, Bihar officials say fever cases rising because of high temperature

Fowl play

January 3, and all is not well in Hong Kong. With four people dead, and 11 confirmed and six suspected cases of A (H5N1) infection, the new …

Ineffective magic bullets: Antibiotic resistance is now the leading cause of deaths across the globe

Young children were found to be particularly affected by AMR

Encephalitis kills 22

On the prowl

Insecticides are being used to control a virus in the US

New diagnostic kit distinguishes between dengue & chikungunya virus.

Eastern UP's encephalitis menace

And the frog survived

Still reeling

New SARS cases in China

Add telaprevir

Disease that never was

AIDS: THE FAILURE OF CONTEMPORARY SCIENCE·Neville Hodgkinson·£17.99· Fourth Estate, London

Chikungunya virus assumes epidemic proportions

How the disease became an epidemic

News Snippets

Bureaucracy has no idea about health care trends

T Jacob John , professor of virology and paediatrics at Christian Medical College, Vellore, speaks to Raj Kishor Khaware on the state of health …