Each year in spring and summer, waterbirds mingle on their breeding grounds in Siberia and mix their flu viruses, creating new variants they then bring to Europe, Asia and Africa.
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Satellite imagery can help to get data in fragile, crisis-affected situations.
The past century’s vampires have often been a bit dashing, even romantic. That’s not how the myth started out.
Epidemics do not require the total eradication of the disease to end.
For decades, US schools have been common sites for vaccine clinics to respond to outbreaks and provide catch-up immunizations. So why are they suddenly controversial?
Experts assess Nigeria’s response to COVID-19 so far and express worry that the country does not appear to have learnt much; it isn’t prepared for the next pandemic.
The course offers a model for teaching about complex problems, and underlines the critical role of university learning, research and outreach in understanding and addressing them.
The lab accident theory of the origins of Covid-19 has gained traction in recent months. We need a proper investigation to find out what really happened.
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.
One of the main fears regarding new SARS-CoV-2 variants is that they might be resistant to immunity granted by vaccines, including RNA vaccines.
The dreadful statistics coming out of India are not just numbers – they relate to people and to suffering.
COVIDSafe was only able to detect a handful of cases successfully, but that doesn’t mean Bluetooth isn’t a helpful tool for addressing viral spread.
In 1959, three armed men broke into the University of Montréal and stole the whole supply of polio vaccine — 75,000 vials valued at $50,000. What have we learned from this event?
A bat virus discovered a decade ago in Cambodia indicates that pangolin trafficking remains a credible explanation for the origin of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Ever since the 2001 SARS outbreak and H5N1 avian flu in 2003, we’ve developed tools to monitor diseases that transmitted from animals to humans. But what does a large-scale roll-out entail?
A 1904 revolt against mandatory smallpox inoculation taught Brazilian health officials a deadly lesson on how to vaccinate a skeptical public. Today President Bolsonaro seems to ignore that history.
The SARS-CoV-2 virus at the origin of the Covid-19 pandemic is one ten-thousandth of a millimeter in diameter. How can such a microscopic organism have such an immense impact on global health?
In the current pandemic, finding the right balance between the protection of public health and respecting civil liberties has proven to be supremely difficult.
Power, plague and Christianity were closely intertwined in 17th-century New England.
Will the COVID-19 pandemic change the global balance of power? It wouldn’t be the first time.
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Professor of Global Biosecurity, NHMRC Principal Research Fellow, Head, Biosecurity Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW
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Lyn Gilbert is a Friend of The Conversation.
Clinical Professor in Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity, University of Sydney
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Professor of Bioethics & Medicine, Sydney Health Ethics, Haematologist/BMT Physician, Royal North Shore Hospital and Director, Praxis Australia, University of Sydney
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Lecturer, Lancaster University
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Research Fellow, Virology, Queen's University Belfast
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Professor of Clinical Microbiology, University of Lagos
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Director, Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs and Executive Professor, Texas A&M University
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Assistant Professor, Sam Houston State University
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Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Associate Professor of Biology, Penn State
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Assistant Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh
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Maître de Conférences (HDR) à Sorbonne Université, ISYEB - Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité (CNRS, MNHN, SU, EPHE, UA), Muséum national d’histoire naturelle (MNHN)
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Professor of Media Studies, Middle Tennessee State University
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Professor, Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Medicine, Monash University
