The Marburg virus, a close cousin of Ebola, currently has no approved treatments or vaccines to protect against it.
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While the majority of monkeypox cases thus far have been recorded among men who have sex with men, everyone is still at risk of contracting the disease.
The monkeypox virus, which is commonly found in West and Central Africa, is now causing many infections in the U.S., Europe and Latin America.
Monkeypox has been spreading in humans since as early as 1970. While most monkeypox infections are mild, some can be fatal.
A centralized reporting system for laboratory incidents involving dangerous pathogens in biological research does not exist in the US or internationally.
We can learn about the spread of diseases through populations by studying naturally occurring instances of herd immunity. Avian cholera in the Canadian Arctic provides a useful case study.
For centuries, disease outbreaks have forced cities to transform physically and operationally in ways that ultimately benefited all residents going forward.
Aerosols are the tiny particles of liquid and material that float around in our environment. When they come from an infected person, they may be a significant source of coronavirus transmission.
Exponential growth, such as in a viral epidemic, starts deceptively slowly, then quickly balloons. A mathematician explains the importance of early action and the costs of delay.
By providing users with pertinent and reliable disaster-related information, Twitter has the potential to reduce the impact of a disaster. So why aren’t public organizations using it properly?
Scientists identified the general pattern of measles infections as a country moves toward eliminating the disease. This roadmap can help public health workers most efficiently fight and end measles.
The high stress conditions of an outbreak can spread a dysfunctional culture among those working to fight it. A survey after the 2015 Ebola epidemic quantified the issue – and suggests a better way.
Emerging research suggests that preexisting immunity to dengue virus, which is endemic in South America, could make a subsequent Zika infection worse.
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.
Hand, foot and mouth disease may not be a public health priority, but parents and caregivers at day-care centres should still be careful about its spread.
To tackle Zika and other viral outbreaks, we need to focus not only on the pathology of the disease, but also on the global political and economic architecture.
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Ph.D. Candidate in Chemical Biology, Harvard University
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Emeritus Professor, School of Public Health, University of the Western Cape
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Pathologist, Centre for Vaccines and Immunology, NICD, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard University
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Professor of Biological Sciences, Florida Gulf Coast University
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Associate Professor of Mathematics, College of the Holy Cross
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Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies & Professor of Marketing and Product Innovation, Brock University
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Associate Professor of Human Ecology, University of California, Davis
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Associate Professor of Biology, Penn State
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Assistant Professor of Broadcast and Digital Journalism, Endicott College
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins University
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Assistant Professor, Luleå University of Technology
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Assistant Professor in Public Administration, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai University
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Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Texas A&M University
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Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder
