Is the alarm justified?

Yes. The disease is spreading fast. Yet there is little scientific data to devise a strategy to deal with it

Deceptive bug behind Andhra disease

A seemingly harmless germ has been on a killing spree. This is what has been detected by the National Institute of Virology in respect of the …

Nigeria faces shortage of meningitis vaccine as epidemic spreads

A new strand of the disease has emerged, for which vaccine is not available commercially 

The muck stops here

Indian lakes are no longer serene waterbodies. Instead, they have become stinking cesspools, a result of continuous inflow of sewage and massive …

SARS Wars

SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) is making the world sneeze. Even as the global health community struggles to unmask a new, deadly, …

What could have turned yellow fever outbreak into a global disaster?

Fast spread of yellow fever and lack of steady supply of vaccine had put WHO and global aid agencies in a spot

Yellow fever grips DRC, Angola

More than 11 million doses of the yellow fever vaccine have been sent to Angola since February this year and more than 2 million to DRC

Draft Public Health Bill restrictive, unclear: experts

They raise concern over the sudden introduction of the bill and its covert focus on bioterrorism

'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 …

A plague on this country

The plague today holds the same threshold of dread that it did in the 14th century. So when the Black Death struck India late last month, the …

New diseases are the result of environmental degradation

After being instrumental in the eradication of smallpox, D A Henderson , director, Centre for Civilian Biodefence, Johns Hopkins University, USA,…

High-flying disease

From now onwards we have to battle with another mysterious enemy. Since February 2003, a disease similar to influenza has 'officially' killed 48 …

Why's malaria taking its toll?

Assam faces a spate of malaria deaths. As the disease assumes near epidemic proportions, it is becoming increasingly clear that the government …

Malarial vector back with a vengeance in Rajasthan

Incessant rains and the resultant stagnant water in canals and fields have spawned a malaria epidemic in the western part of the state

Ebola unleashed

The deadly virus had long confined itself to the backwoods of Africa. Increasing deforestation has led to its frequent emergence as epidemics

When flu turns fatal

In the past two months, as many as 1,198 people in India have died of swine flu, a disease which is only as threatening as seasonal flu. Jyotsna …

Chikungunya spreads its tentacles

Chikungunya, a viral disease borne by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, has assumed epidemic proportions in large swathes of the country, especially …

If bird flu arrives, what will India do?

India is a hotbed not only of strange diseases but of stranger disease surveillance and control institutions. Every year, known and unknown …

World is at risk

With scientists undertaking controversial flu virus experiments

Killer dengue

Learning from experience

India's healthcare bureaucracy

Should they be called bio-terrorists?

Unseemly end for the royals

Mystifying the plague

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