West Nile virus arrived in North America in 1999 and spread across the continent by 2005. Here’s what you need to know about this mosquito-borne pathogen.
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Floods are often followed by waves of diseases because pathogens shed by animals can survive in flood waters for days, raising the risk of infection for humans.
Polio cases in the US, UK and Israel remind us that this could also happen in Australia. Here’s what we should watch out for.
Combining several layers of response to COVID-19 was effective. Decentralisation, innovation and building on existing systems were key.
The spread of this urban malaria vector species threatens the gains made against malaria and the achievement of malaria elimination.
Over 800 sites across the US report coronavirus data from sewage to the CDC. Here’s how this kind of surveillance system works and what it can and can’t tell you.
Insecticide resistance is a growing threat to malaria control efforts globally. It is, thus, important to keep a close eye on vector mosquito populations in affected areas.
States are using 2 main school testing strategies: testing everyone regularly, known as surveillance, having close contacts test daily for 7 days and come to school if negative, known as test to stay.
Outbreaks of polio have become a thing of the past, told to us by our grandparents, only because of vaccination.
Nigeria must increase its testing capacity and do more genomic studies to deal effectively with the Delta variant of COVID-19.
Policymakers need to make sense of the data so as to predict and manage what’s happening. To address this need, we developed a visualisation tool to track and predict country-level COVID-19 cases.
A more coordinated effort by scientists, stakeholders and community members will be required to stop the next deadly virus that’s already circulating in our midst.
The US lags in testing coronavirus samples from COVID-19 patients, which can help track the spread of the virus and the emergence of new variants. But labs are ramping up this crucial surveillance.
You can have this STI without knowing it, or have symptoms, it can affect men and women, and it can be treated with antibiotics. Left untreated, it may cause complications.
South Africa’s long-awaited TB prevalence survey results were recently released. They reveal that the country has a much higher burden of TB than previously thought.
A community’s wastewater can predict coronavirus cases that haven’t yet been diagnosed. The quicker that information is known, the better.
Shoring up surveillance and response systems and learning lessons from how the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded will help the world be ready the next time around.
Scientists are experimenting with using dogs to sniff out people infected with COVID-19. But dogs aren’t the only animals with a nose for disease.
Digital participatory surveillance allows the community to share in the responsibility of disease surveillance and contribute to the control and prevention of respiratory disease outbreaks.
The polio eradication programme in Africa directly combated a severe debilitating disease. But it also provided a platform for broader healthcare services on the continent.
Top contributors
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Medical scientist, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Fellow, Nigerian Academy of Science
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Associate Professor, Molecular Engineering, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Regional Adviser, Immunisation, WHO Regional Office for Africa, Stellenbosch University
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Associate Professor at the Wits Research Institute for Malaria in the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor, Head of Research Translation and Head of the Genital Mycoplasma and Microbiota Group, Monash University
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Professor of Microbiology, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)
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Medical Epidemiologist at the National Institute of Communicable Diseases and Lecturer at the School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand
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Adjunct Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Columbia University
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Assistant Professor, Department of Global Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston University
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Ph.D. Candidate in Chemical Biology, Harvard University
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Professor of Infectious Disease and Global Health, Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, Tufts University
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Researcher, University of the Western Cape
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Head, Centre for Vaccines and Immunology, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Associate Principal Research Fellow, Burnet Institute
