Yellow fever, malaria and Ebola all spilled over from animals to humans at the edges of tropical forests. The new coronavirus is the latest zoonosis.
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Washing hands and coughing into your elbow can help limit the spread of infectious diseases on planes and around the globe. So why don’t passengers read about this in their inflight magazines?
Tick-borne diseases are becoming more common in the United States. A public health entomologist outlines some of the lesser-known threats ticks pose to human health.
South Africa is piloting a new technique as it drives to eliminate malaria.
Several countries within southern Africa are on the brink of eliminating malaria. But there are several challenges ahead.
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Research Chair, Integrated Vector Management in the Vector Control Cluster, Centre for Sustainable Malaria Control, University of Pretoria
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Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Florida
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Clinical Chair and Professor of Infection Prevention and Disease Control at the University of Sydney, University of Sydney
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Senior Medical Scientist, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Extension Professor of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Entomology and Plant Pathology, Mississippi State University
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Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Sydney
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Professor of Epidemiology, Universidade de São Paulo
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Professor of biology and infectious diseases, Faculdade de Medicina do ABC
