New draft standards for respirator use recognize the importance of protecting workers and patients in health-care settings, where there is a higher risk of pathogen exposure
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The diseases that spread like wildfire. And those that don’t.
Confidence in banking is hard-earned and easily shocked. This makes individual banks and the banking sector susceptible to knock-on effects from other institutions.
There are two types of systemic risk that can infect the highly interconnected global banking system.
Declaring monkeypox a national health emergency will allow the U.S. government to direct resources and funds where needed to help slow the spread of the virus.
Indigenous stories of survival in fictional post-apocalyptic landscapes draw from actual events and experiences. These stories preserve histories and the possibility of hope.
Our social connections and interactions form networks. Studying these networks reveal the ways in which both memes and viruses travel through populations
The outdoors is less risky than an enclosed room, but it isn’t a COVID-19-free zone. Here’s what you need to know.
A Hungarian obstetrician was the first to nail down the importance of handwashing to stop the spread of infectious disease.
Using distance to avoid getting sick has deep evolutionary roots for humans and many other species.
Densely populated urban areas are great drivers of economic development and innovation, but that also makes them a fertile ground for the spread of pandemics.
A new reactor may soon be able to safely disinfect the air in crowded spaces.
Despite the myth of consumption as an ethereal, wasting disease, the more prosaic truth is that the Brontës likely infected one another with tuberculosis.
Rioters were influenced by a shared anti-police identity – not just mindless violence.
Despite being so small they can’t be seen with the naked eye, pathogens that cause human disease have greatly affected the way humans live for centuries.
Your phobias might just be influencing another’s fears.
The finance sector is coming back strong after the GFC. This time, we need to make sure it is a force for good.
Economists are being called upon to estimate the costs of the Ebola epidemic to West Africa and elsewhere. However, economists should also play a part in estimating the likelihood of the disease spreading…
In the Chinese zodiac, 2011 is the year of the rabbit but for those of us working on viruses from wildlife animals, it was much more like the year of the bat. In February, the deadly Nipah virus re-emerged…
One touch and you’re infected. By the next day your muscles ache, you have a fever and the beginnings of a headache. You don’t know it yet, but you only have a one in three chance of survival and you’ve…
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Office of the Chief Executive Science Leader in Virology, CSIRO
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