Panic in London

Breakthrough!

A cure for the world's most deadly disease, Ebola, is on the anvil

Diabetes and summer-borns

Stop blaming the rain

Drought helps mosquitoes to grow abundantly

Group defence

Diverse blood types evolved to provide immunity against infections

Taming the variant

Biotech wine

Buffalo blight

Hepatitis C hits Calcutta

Replicating virus

Researchers create a near replica of the Hepatitis C virus

Cheaper H1N1 kits to hit market

Indian companies develop detection kits for swine flu

Virus alert

A strain of the virus that causes bird influenza has been implicated in the death of a three-year-old boy in Hong Kong. The case, though …

Humans susceptible to viral strains borne by chimpanzee

SIV strains mutate upon entering cells to overcome human-specific barriers to infection

Disease claims over 2,000 pigs in Mizoram's Champhai district

Besides Champhai, another region called Lunglei has also shown cases of infection, but the casualties are far less

Epidemic resurfaces

Airbone threat

IN FOCUS

New viruses on the prowl

Humans have exposed themselves to a host of new viral diseases by playing around too much with the environment

HONG KONG

Flu panic hits London

On a killing spree

Malaysia orders immediate killing of a million pigs; virus claims more than 85 lives

Cool cancer treatment

The cold virus could help patients undergoing chemotherapy

Hand-foot-mouth virus strikes

Thane doctors say disease that affects children is spreading to other cities

Coronavirus continues its march across Asia and the world

New cases reported in Singapore and Hong Kong; suspected cases in Scotland; three Chinese cities shut to prevent infection 

The slippery killer

It is going to require something more than just drugs to deal with HIV, say scientists