Isolation is crucial to stopping the spread of highly infectious diseases such as, for example, swine flu, but at the same time there is a risk of isolation having a negative impact on patient mental well-being. We need more knowledge about the consequences of isolation, says one of the organisers behind a large AU congress on infectious diseases.

Thanks to Danish researchers, in future African women will perhaps no longer have to travel for days to get to medical clinics to have their children tested and treated for malaria.

New research from Aarhus University shows that many backpackers do not know the risks and symptoms associated with dengue fever. They therefore risk spreading the potentially fatal illness to other countries.

Denmark will soon have to respond to the global increase in the number of cases of multi-resistant tuberculosis. The serious variant of the disease is widespread in Eastern Europe and in many of the countries from which we receive most immigrants.