Australia and New Zealand have well and truly ‘flattened the curve’, and there is now a real chance we could eliminate coronavirus in both countries. But what does elimination actually mean?
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A Hungarian obstetrician was the first to nail down the importance of handwashing to stop the spread of infectious disease.
Canadians have a reputation for compassion; in the current COVID-19 pandemic, this means helping each other by staying away.
Best-case estimates suggest 40 million American adults may come down with COVID-19. But an epidemiologist explains why now is not the time to just give up.
Even before people understood how germs spread disease, they tried to isolate the sick to keep them from infecting others.
Nigeria has to plug the gaps at points of entry to keep infectious diseases at bay.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control says it will use lessons from the Ebola outbreak to strengthen its risk communications capacity.
Genetically modified mosquitoes were released in Brazil in an attempt to halt the spread of dengue fever by reducing the mosquito population.
Water is crucial to the spread of malaria because mosquitoes breed and lay their eggs in or near bodies of water.
Genetic analysis shows that urban rats prefer to stay near their relatives; however, some of them migrate. Knowing this could help with pest control efforts.
The polio vaccination successfully eradicated the disease in Canada. Can the same happen with other diseases?
Nigeria’s health systems are overwhelmed and incapable of sustaining high quality disease surveillance, prevention, control and response.
South Africa must adopt traceability systems to effectively control foot and mouth disease.
For several billion people mosquitoes are more than a nuisance – they transmit deadly diseases. Now genetic modification may prove the most effective defense against the mosquito, preventing disease.
As rain continues to fall in Kenya, national and county governments must put measures in place to prevent a Rift Valley fever outbreak.
Lassa outbreaks are becoming more widespread in Nigeria but have not been given national emergency status like Ebola.
Most immunisation campaigns continue to primarily focus on infants and children, but almost 4 million Australian adults are not vaccinated against preventable diseases.
Some things that develop as normal in elephant sharks and other marine life can mimic things we see in human disease. That makes these ‘mutants’ ideal for study to find out why things go wrong in humans.
A year ago, Dr Kent Brantly became the first person treated for Ebola in the US. The director of Emory University’s Serious Communicable Disease Unit looks back at we have – and haven’t – learned.
Along with better strategies to respond to outbreaks in human populations, we need a stronger focus on surveillance in animals to identify infectious diseases before they pose a risk to human health.
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Professor of Public Health, University of Sheffield
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Distinguished Research Professor, Emerita, Dalhousie University
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Fellow, Nigerian Academy of Science
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Visiting Lecturer of History, Georgia State University
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Professor, Swansea University
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Professor of Global Biosecurity, NHMRC L3 Research Fellow, Head, Biosecurity Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Geography, Cardiff University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Lecturer in Virology, Queen's University Belfast
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Senior Lecturer in Microbiology, Western Sydney University
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Director of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Health Protection Research Unit in Emerging and Zoonotic Infections, and Professor of Neurology, University of Liverpool
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Research Scientist and Principal Investigator at the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization, University of Saskatchewan
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Program Leader Effective Detection and Response, Plant Biosecurity Cooperative Research Centre
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Associate professor, UNSW Sydney
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Senior Principal Research Scientist, Ecosystem Sciences, CSIRO
