Downplaying the threat of superbug in city hospitals, Delhi Health Minister A.K. Walia on Friday said the prevalence of the infection is 'very low' and cannot be termed 'alarming'.

"There is a very l

As the clamour over respected international medical journal Lancet’s fresh comments on the superbug - controversially named New Delhi metallo beta lactamase detected in Delhi’s water supply - creates

The Delhi government on Wednesday rejected the Lancet report on presence of a drug-resistant superbug in city's tap waters but decided to distribute chlorine tablets to people free of cost as a precau

International health journal 'Lancet', which had first published an article naming a drug-resistant superbug after New Delhi, had refused to publish India's rebuttal in the matter last year.

The rebu

International health journal Lancet has slammed the government for 'suppressing' truth about the presence of a drug-resistant bacteria in Delhi's public water system by 'threatening' and 'abusing'

The Health Ministry today asked people not to panic over reports of presence of drug-resistant bacteria in the public water supply of the capital, stating that it is a global issue not specific to

Three people, who returned to the US from India earlier this year, have been infected with the "superbug" that are highly resistant to antibiotics, the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention ha

A new superbug from India thought to be resistant to nearly every known antibiotic poses a global threat, scientists warned today, urging health authorities to track the bacteria. "There is an urgent

Chennai, Aug 16: Pharma major Wyeth has claimed that it had no knowledge about the results of the controversial study published in the journal Lancet that “discovered” a superbug in Indian hospitals.

With a report of an antibiotic resistant superbug originating from India creating an uproar, its lead author has dismissed as hypothetical the conclusion that the bacteria was transmitted from the cou