Malaria has long menaced the world, but gains have occurred. Those efforts could now be stymied by budget cuts, however. Here’s how a disease that knows no borders could widen its deadly reach.
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Contraception saves lives, and U.S. spending on it abroad had an unintended upside when it formed the backbone of early HIV prevention efforts.
The Zika outbreak that started in Brazil in 2015 continues on five continents, causing neurological disease and birth defects.
How is it the flu has managed to stay around for so long, and why haven’t we beaten it yet?
When governments delay releasing information about disease outbreaks, algorithms come to the rescue.
Functional early warning systems help countries respond to a disease before it spreads.
Universal flu vaccines have reached the stage where they are no longer just a ‘hopeful hypothesis’.
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.
Globalisation has ensured that pandemics are a fact of life, but are we learning from past mistakes?
New study maps the spread of ‘deformed wing virus’ – and it follows patterns of human trade.
What flu season has in store: mostly H1N1 in the north and a three-way split between H1N1, H3N2 and influenza B in the south.
Perhaps because we all need sleep, we have an enduring interest in sleep disorders such as narcolepsy, which causes a constant irrepressible need for sleep.
Mathematicians are a secret weapon when it comes to preparing for outbreaks of diseases like Ebola.
What would you do if a zombie apocalypse occurred? I recommend going to the Centers for Disease Control’s (CDC) zombie website for information. It is incredible (see it here). While the zombie website…
Australia’s in the middle of the annual flu season and once again, it’s claimed to the worst on record. But why is it that every season seems to outdo previous ones and how bad is this year, really?
The last century has given us much to draw on when it comes to dealing with pandemics.
More than 8,000 people have died from Ebola in West Africa since February 2014 and it has spread beyond the three countries initially affected. So, it’s an epidemic, right? Or is it an outbreak? What about…
The Conversation organised a public question-and-answer session on Reddit in which Anders Sandberg and Andrew Snyder-Beattie, researchers at the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University, explored…
Last October, scientists in California sequenced the DNA for the “type H” botulinum toxin. One gram of this toxin would be sufficient to kill half a billion people, making it the deadliest substance yet…
At least 320,000 new and undiscovered viruses could be circulating throughout mammals and awaiting discovery. A study conducted…
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Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Deakin University
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Professor of Medicine, University of Virginia
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Lecturer in Psychology, Swansea University
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Joel Lexchin é um amigo do The Conversation.
Professor Emeritus of Health Policy and Management, York University, Canada
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Professor of Global Biosecurity, NHMRC L3 Research Fellow, Head, Biosecurity Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney
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Professor, Biology, York University, Canada
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Associate Professor of Viral Immunology, Department of Pathobiology, University of Guelph
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Professor of Immunology and Associate Dean, Research and Graduate Studies, University of Guelph
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Professor of Epidemiology Healthcare Infection and Infectious Diseases Control, UNSW Sydney
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Dean and Professor of Public Health, The Ohio State University
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Professor and Chair, Department of Journalism, Stellenbosch University
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Bernard T. Ferrari Professor of Business, Johns Hopkins University
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Research associate, Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Brown University
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Professor of Medicine, Epidemiologist, Physician, McMaster University
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Professor of Medicine, University of East Anglia
