Less species, more diseases

Researchers blame increased human population

Marauding Marburg

A viral disease that has no cure leaves a trail of death

Who are you?

Human factor in swine flu

Infection threat from clean hospitals too

Inextricably linked

A United Nations report highlights the connection between environment and health

Grim reminder

A fleeting reappearance of plague exposes India's lack of preparedness

Caught off guard

SARS unravelled

The pathogen's path

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Superbug threat is for real

But Indian government does not think it is significant

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In Short

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Dengue outbreak in Brazil prompting emergency health measures

As the world gets increasingly warmer and wetter, mosquito-related disease outbreaks are predicted to rise and spread

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

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 …

Fatal resistance

The strong and mighty bacteria are all around us. They have hardened themselves to fight back the antibiotics administered to patients. This is …

SARS - India's wrong diagnosis

The Union government's recent declaration that India does not have any cases of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) may have allayed the …

Light pollution spreads diseases

It is difficult to comprehend modern life sans nighttime light. But the amenity comes at a price. Bruno A S De Medeiros and Alessandro Barghini …

Woes of the world

It is mostly the preventable diseases which lead to fatal maladies due to negligence that hold our lives in stake, reveals the 1994 WHO report

Life positive

With infectious diseases well under control in the developed world, it is the non-infectious diseases that now threaten us

Scientists propose Controlled Human Infection Model studies

In CHIM, researchers infect healthy participants with a weakened strain of a pathogen in a controlled setting to learn more about the infection …