The deadly ebola virus has struck again. It has already claimed 16 lives in Gabon and going by the widespread cases of haemmorhagic fever in the region, the World Health Organization has declared it

Fever that follows viral infection is believed to be a defence mechanism of the body. High temperature is thought to harm virus more than the host. However, researchers at the University of Oxford,

pockets of virus-carrying mosquitoes have swarmed large areas of New England in north-east us . Alert public health officials who spotted the sudden spurt in mosquito population are now

Two recently published American studies reveal that cytomegalovirus CMV can cause arterial blockages in infected individuals

Can the deadly dengue be controlled by injecting its carrier mosquito with another virus?

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What is commonly known as Spanish flu, caused one of the deadliest epidemics to be recorded in history. The 1918 pandemic

INDIANS Could be at the mercy of a host of new deadly diseases. A recent report by Kalyan Banerjee, director of the National Institute of Virology, Pune, warns that viral infections hitherto

ANOTHER addition to the growing list of new maladies is the buffalo pox disease. The recent outbreak of the disease in Beed district of Maharashtra has raised concerns among Indian scientists

Indian scientists suspect the presence of hantavirus one of the. most dreaded killers of modern times in Gujarat