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Drug-resistant disease-causing microbes can infect any one of us. Bhakti Chavan, a promising biotechnologist, who never had TB before, got infected...

The recent tragic death of a teenager in Kerala, India, due to a rare but deadly infection caused by Naegleria fowleri, commonly known as the...