Via The Daily Bell Imagine men in bleach white bio suits with medical masks show up at your door. You are suspected of carrying a communicable disease. You will now be arrested and held without due process, indefinitely. The government could do this any day. They have the “authority”. They have

Image source   Scottish nurse who became infected with the Ebola virus was cleared this week and left Heathrow despite the problems with her health. She has been cleared to travel, because she did not have significantly elevated temperature. It really raises the question of whether we should be

A new class of antibody found in the blood of patients with dengue fever has boosted hopes for a vaccine against the virus, which debilitates millions and kills tens of thousands each year. Cases of dengue fever have soared in the past 50 years to nearly 100 million a year as improved transport

Strains of tuberculosis that are resistant to most of the drugs used to treat them are spreading rapidly across the former Soviet Union and pose a serious global threat, warn doctors. Drug-resistant TB has been found everywhere in the world. According to the World Health Organisation’s 2014 global

Australian researchers have made a major breakthrough in the race to find new medicines to eliminate malaria, as resistance increases to the only drug left to treat the disease. Scientists from the Burnet Institute, Deakin University and Monash University were able to starve the malaria parasite