Scientific studies show that bats may carry “coronoviruses” causing SARS and MERS - without showing symptoms of disease. Could the bat immune system be key to human survival in future pandemics?
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South Africa’s Reserve Bank is facing a growing challenge of illicit financial flows and money laundering from gangs and errant businesses hell-bent on tricking regulators.
Opioids kill an average of eight people every day in Canada. The federal government must officially declare this a ‘public welfare emergency’ and invest the funds critical to a humane response.
Infectious diseases pose a continual threat to Canadians. Ensuring the population stays healthy requires increasing investment in our public health system.
KPMG South Africa sets a potential example of how shareholders can attack the soft underbelly of private sector state capture enablers.
The South African arm of the international accounting firm KPMG has learnt the hard lesson: Don’t break the 11th commandment - don’t get caught. That’s because South Africa’s citizens are fed up with corruption.
KPMG South Africa executives have set a new benchmark for the country assuming responsibility for wrongdoing in their organisation.
We’ve all endured infections. Here’s how it works when our bodies are attacked by viruses, bacteria or parasites, and our innate immune system becomes the first line of defence.
Despite being so small they can’t be seen with the naked eye, pathogens that cause human disease have greatly affected the way humans live for centuries.
President Trump wants to slash global health funding at a time when more investment is needed, not less. This spending can protect Americans – as well as foreigners – from deadly diseases.
It is common to reduce the politics of the ANC to a battle between personalities. A closer look suggest that this is a fight between two factions, both of them products of trends in the economy.
South Africa’s finance minister, Pravin Gordhan, had to battle poor growth and falling revenue in preparing the 2016 medium term budget. How did he do?
Closer examination of criminal charges brought against South Africa’s finance minister, Pravin Gordhan, suggest that they are weak in law and serve a political agenda.
We need better surveillance systems to detect epidemics early. But while social media has been flagged as a potential solution, we’re not quite there yet.
The battle between South Africa’s finance minister Pravin Gordhan and the country’s elite police unit is once more grabbing headlines. What are the points of law around the matter?
Academics have sent an open letter to the World Health Organisation calling for the Olympics to be postponed or moved because of the Zika threat. They’re overreacting.
Understanding how the flu virus copies itself could open a way to killing it.
The world’s scientific community is focused on how to improve detection and responses to emerging diseases such as Zika virus and Ebola. So what can we learn from the most recent large-scale outbreaks?
A professor of economics reflects on other outbreaks to get to grips with the likely impacts of Zika.
One of the biggest recent controversies in medicine involves the effectiveness of the antiviral drug Tamiflu. Governments have stockpiled the drug but many have raised doubts about its usefulness.
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Professor of Global Biosecurity, NHMRC L3 Research Fellow, Head, Biosecurity Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney
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Research Scientist and Principal Investigator at the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization, University of Saskatchewan
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Associate Professor of Biology, Penn State
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Professor of Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology, Penn State
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Professor of Medicine, University of Virginia
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Professor/Director Centre for Viral Zoonoses/ DST-NRF South African Research Chair, University of Pretoria
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Associate Professor in Public Law, University of Cape Town
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Professor of Entomology and Director of the Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, Penn State
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John Curtin Distinguished Professor of Health Science, Curtin University
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Virologist, The University of Queensland
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Lecturer in Virology, Queen's University Belfast
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Senior lecturer, UNSW Sydney
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Professor and Director of Doherty Epidemiology, The University of Melbourne
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Queensland
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Professor, University of Sydney
