Dengue fever: hope for an end to a deadly disease

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When the new year is welcomed in, we hope for good fortune in the months that lie ahead. But 25 years ago, right across the British countryside, good fortune was nowhere to be seen. Instead, 2001 was

IS IT DANGEROUS FOR HER TO TRAVEL? Q Our daughter has just found out she is pregnant. It wasn’t planned, but we’re all thrilled. I just have one concern. She is due to travel to Tanzania with work in

In a time when people are being asked to consider eating insects, we should, perhaps, learn a thing or two from the aardvark (Orycteropus afer), Africa’s ant-guzzling gourmand. On an average night, th

Vaccines prevent the spread of disease and protect people from serious illnesses. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has designated the last week of April as “world immunisation week”, during which i

M Y HAT IS USUALLY hung securely on ...