No antibiotics please

Virus busters

US researchers take the first step towards preventing outbreaks of the deadly Ebola virus

Ebola-like virus in Kenya

Uganda

What a bloody mess

When the Ebola virus broke on April 10 this year, the scientific world went into a tizzy? It's uncontrollable, it's the big daddy of horror movies,…

India has fourth highest number of measles cases in the world: WHO

The country’s disease incidence rate per million is 29.68, the lowest in the top 10 countries

India should beware of 10 viral threats, including Ebola

The diseases include Ebola, MERS-CoV, yellow fever, bird flu, Usutu virus, Tilapia novel orthomyxo-like virus, Cyclovirus, Banna Reo virus and …

Significant selenium

Terror of Mato Grosso

Catching up with the killer

GABON

TANZANIA

India

MALAYSIA

Unmasking the killer

The virus that caused havoc in Malaysia may not have been JE after all

Nano-sensor

New tool to detect viruses quickly at low cost

What a bloody mess

When the Ebola virus broke on April 10 this year, the scientific world went into a tizzy? It's uncontrollable, it's the big daddy of horror movies,…

End of innocence

Two recently published American studies reveal that cytomegalovirus (CMV) can cause arterial blockages in infected individuals

No small cause for alarm

Monkeypox, a disease similar to smallpox, may be spreading among humans

Fish disease

"We are starved of funds"

KALYAN BANERJEE, director of the National Institute of Virology (NIV) in Pune, speaks to MAX MARTIN about the emergence and re-emergence of viral …

Virus mystery

It is difficult to predict the behaviour of genetically engineered crops to resist viruses

Chicken worries

A new strain of influenza virus transmitted to humans from chicken is causing panic in Southeast Asia

Sneeze on

There is no cure for a cold

A mutating monster

Some strains of the AIDS-causing virus are developing resistance to whatever drugs are available