Sewage surveillance is one technique that can alert authorities to the presence of a pathogen in the community. An environmental engineer explains the state of the science when it comes to SARS-CoV-2.
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South Korea’s mass surveillance to curb the coronavirus pandemic uses technologies and techniques that are grounded in anti-LGBTQ discrimination.
The variation captured in these genomes, when compared to genomes sampled elsewhere, provides a fingerprint that might be associated with a particular virus and a particular cluster of transmission.
Understanding the many factors that may play a role in spillover of pathogens from bats to humans requires systematic surveillance of bat populations.
Researchers are only beginning to understand the impact of pollution and increased temperatures on the biology of mosquitoes.
Nigeria’s health systems are overwhelmed and incapable of sustaining high quality disease surveillance, prevention, control and response.
No one then knew a virus caused the 1918 flu pandemic, much less that animals can be a reservoir for human illnesses. Now virus ecology research and surveillance are key for public health efforts.
Lassa outbreaks are becoming more widespread in Nigeria but have not been given national emergency status like Ebola.
Yelp and Twitter can help us spot food poisoning outbreaks quickly. But a new study shows the data favor some communities over others.
Zika had already reached 46,000 probable cases by the end of May 2016 and is transmitted by the same mosquito species as dengue and Chikungunya.
Public health experts enlist the molecular biology tools that create genetically modified organisms – as well as the GMOs themselves – in the fight against emerging infectious diseases.
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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
