A day after Norovirus cases were confirmed in Wayanad district, the Kerala government on Friday said people need to be vigilant about the very contagious virus that causes vomiting and diarrhea. The ...

Presence of lead and nickel in drinking water and milk has been primarily established as the root cause of the mysterious sickness among people in Eluru city of Andhra Pradesh, which has till now clai...

Chinese authorities have encouraged people in the city of Wuhan, the epicentre of the epidemic, to wear surgical masks in public to help curb the spread of the new coronavirus. The question is: do the...

A progress report does not always bring cheer. A Lancet study showed that death of children under five in India went down from 2.5 million in the year 2000 to 1.2 million in 2015. Unfortunately, this ...

Indian medical microbiologists have asked medical education regulators to modify the postgraduate MD microbiology course to build a cadre of infectious disease specialists and expand microbiologistsâ€...

The world could well be returning to the dark ages before penicillin when even ordinary soil bacteria could slay the weak at will. The latest report of the United Nations Interagency Coordination Grou...

Pathogens, particularly viruses which were never known to affect humans before, are rapidly jumping from other species to attack humans fatally. More alarmingly, we are helplessly witnessing their kil...