By Suzanne Elvidge Whooping cough is not a pleasant experience–it’s painful for the sufferer, can be life-threatening, particularly in young babies, and is distressing for families and careers. It’s been well-controlled by vaccines since the 1950s, but some data coming out of Australia are cause for concern: It seems that the prolonged whooping cough epidemic that’s […]
Mutant strain of Hepatitis-B in Nicobarese
By Kounteya Sinha, TNN PORT BLAIR: A mutant strain of Hepatitis B — a viral infection that causes chronic liver failure, and is 50 to 100 times more infectious than HIV — has been isolated from the ancient and dwindling Nicobarese tribe of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Scientists from ICMR’s Regional Medical Research Centre […]
