Events in eastern DRC are a reminder that Ebola outbreaks are rarely controlled by vaccines alone.
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Case numbers have steadily increased since the outbreak was confirmed on May 15.
Long known as a virus confined to rural areas, mpox has reached Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Rather than winging it when an unusual health event crops up, health officials take a systematic approach. The goal is to quickly figure out what’s going on and squash any outbreak before it spreads.
The Marburg virus, a close cousin of Ebola, currently has no approved treatments or vaccines to protect against it.
Even though SARS-CoV-2 is still around, the Australian government has stopped use of the COVIDSafe app. Was it an abject failure, and what lessons can we learn from this exercise?
Earlier detection and treatment of COVID-19 by health care providers in pharmacies could help prevent surges in infection rates and severe illness.
The CDC’s controversial recommendation changes are based on new studies showing that most omicron transmission takes place within five days of the onset of illness.
International epidemic management involves ceding to foreign experts who possess, at best, a surface-level understanding of a very complex region.
Instead of making the lives of contact tracers easier, analysis shows the expensive technology missed contacts and added to their workload.
While neoliberalism has allowed U.S. markets to grow, the resultant stunted public health system left Americans to figure out how to protect themselves from COVID-19 and its fallout on their own.
A statistically designed random sampling scheme, based on as few as 100 people, would give a very high probability of detecting if there are any COVID-19 cases and highlight at-risk hotspots.
Vaccines alone aren’t enough to protect against the highly contagious Delta variant.
Without appropriate support, it’s more likely people will break COVID restrictions, for example go to work, or gather in family groups for support.
State police have accessed QR code check-in data on at least six occasions, for investigations unrelated to the pandemic.
A lot is based on how effective our system of test, trace, isolate and quarantine is. And we’ll still have to accept some level of new cases.
Concerns about privacy protection of contact tracing data include the potential use by police for enforcement purposes or businesses for marketing.
The k number tells us whether the spread of a disease is steady or comes in big bursts, with a small proportion of people infecting many others. The latter is know as superspreading.
NSW’s successful test and trace strategy controlled the Crossroads Hotel outbreak a year ago without needing a stringent lockdown. But this has not worked as well against Delta.
COVID-19 cases in Indonesia are rising and are expected to keep doing so for another two weeks until the effects of restrictions and mask mandates are seen.
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Professor of Public Health, University of Otago
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Professor of Global Biosecurity, NHMRC L3 Research Fellow, Head, Biosecurity Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW
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Professor in Applied Mathematics, University of Canterbury
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Professor of Public Health, University of Otago
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Chair in Epidemiology, Deakin University
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Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Deakin University
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Adjunct professor, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Scientia Professor of Economics, UNSW
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Research assistant, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Associate professor, University of Canterbury
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Research Associate Professor of Public Health, University of Otago
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Associate Professor, Epidemiology and Environmental Health, University of Canterbury
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Associate Professor, Computing & Information Systems; Director, Melbourne Data Analytics Platform, The University of Melbourne
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Research scientist in mathematical modelling, Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research
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Research scientist, Manaaki Whenua - Landcare Research