On a come-back trail

Death-watch

Cause of death: poverty

Nipah outbreak synonymous with India's ill-preparedness to deal with health crises

Nipah virus is part of a clutch of emerging pandemics threatening the world due to global warming and environmental pressure

IIT Hyderabad develops device to detect infectious diseases at low costs

The device can help detect infection on the first day of being infected and can be used without the help of a technician 

Odyssey of a disease

From sheep to cattle and then to human beings, spongiform encephalopathies, a group of fatal brain maladies, have caught the attention of …

Malawi first country in southern Africa to eliminate trachoma: WHO

The Global Trachoma Mapping Project in the country helped in targeted action

Metal shield

A clean kill

It seems that cleanliness has been overrated

Tourism biggest casualty

Database of potential bioweapons

Peeling touch

Government policy stops prevention of lifestyle diseases

Sterilized but infectious

Drug-resistant bacteria spreads between hospitals  

WHO: More investments needed in Africa to control, eliminate neglected tropical diseases

Around 400 million people in the region are still affected; 99 million in 26 countries at risk of not receiving treatment

Resistance-causing mcr-1 gene isolated in India

The gene is responsible for resistance against colistin, a last resort antibiotic used to treat human diseases

Why we are bugged

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No money for labs in antibiotics research

Though increasing bacterial resistance to antibiotics is making it difficult to treat diseases such as malaria, pharmaceutical companies do not …

TB threat as acute as AIDS

Infectious diseases are still the largest cause of death in the world and tuberculosis remains the leader.

AIDS increases TB death risk

People infected with the AIDS virus are more susceptible to tuberculosis, and this further reduces their chances of survival.

Dealing with hunger

Hormone therapy may be the difference between the life and death/or the starving

Staking a claim

Look out

Two viruses from the infamous retrovirus family found

Bad for wildlife, bad for people

What is Alaskapox? A microbiologist explains the recently discovered virus that just claimed its first fatality

Alaskapox — a virus in the same family as smallpox, cowpox and mpox — claimed its first fatality in January 2024

Designing infectious disease warnings that work

Most infectious disease warning systems have been set up to fail as they focus on science, not people.