infectious diseases

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Is Global Warming Making Us Sicker?

Debapriyo Chakraborty 27/07/2018

The world is currently plagued by an upsurge in...

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The Desperate Global Need for Medical Diagnostics

Julia von Oettingen and Rajesh Vedanthan 11/06/2018

The World Health Organization has made bold progress by...

A health ministry worker fumigates a house to kill mosquitoes during a campaign against dengue and chikungunya and to prevent the entry of Zika virus in Managua, Nicaragua

Emerging Infectious Diseases in India: the Scourge Could Boost Urban Development

Olivier Telle 26/04/2018

These infectious diseases do not recognise administrative frontiers, much...

A 3D print of reovirus. Rotavirus, a type of reovirus, is the major worldwide cause of severe childhood diarrhoea. Its mitigation has been the subject of the research of Gagandeep Kang. Caption & credit: niaid/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Noted Rotavirus Researcher Gagandeep Kang Wins 2016 Infosys Prize

T.V. Padma 23/11/2016

In India, rotavirus infections kill 98,000 children every year....