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771,945 have been infected.
A new gene editing experiment explores human development. With this comes new ethical questions: How do scientists acquire embryos and how are their projects approved?
Why are some animals resistant to waterborne disease? A reader wants to know.
The strategy to eliminate human rabies is straight forward: vaccinate dogs, provide prompt post-exposure vaccines, public education and awareness on prevention.
HIV, STIs and other dangerous infections are feeding off of the opioid epidemic, creating an even more complicated threat to public health.
When jetting off on holiday, we rarely give a second thought to what microbes we might be taking with us. But humans spread trillions of bacteria around the globe, potentially harming ecosystems’ balance.
Swine brucellosis is spreading from Queensland into New South Wales. It’s carried by feral pigs and poses a real risk the people and dogs that hunt them.
What’s on your cash? Studies show our money carries everything from pet DNA and old food to E.coli and traces of cocaine.
Biologists only really started to use maths in the last few decades.
Under pressure to create new markets, big alcohol producers are scouring the African continent in what promises to yield negative socioeconomic consequences.
What does dementia feel like?
In Russia, social networks have given a new life to the conspiracy theory that HIV-AIDS is a global hoax.
Studies suggest electrosensitivity is a “communicated” disease, spread by people hearing about the alleged dangers, and sometimes worrying themselves sick.
Rare diseases may only affect a handful of people but their treatment benefits everyone.
Genomes can reveal a lot about disease risk. But people need to think carefully about what they want to know.
Lettuce leaves and purgatives might ease your aching heart.
Bacteria are single-celled organisms but you’d be fooled to think they weren’t also hugely complex.
We shouldn’t scoff at the Facebook founder’s goal of eradicating disease.
A comprehensive analysis of Tasmania’s natural disaster risks has identified bushfire as the biggest threat, alongside emerging issues such as disease epidemics and heatwaves.
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Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
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Alfred Deakin Professor and Chair in Ecology, Deakin University
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Lecturer in Virology, Queen's University Belfast
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Professor and Chair, Department of Environmental Health, Boston University
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Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Deakin University
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Senior Lecturer in Microbiology, Western Sydney University
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Adjunct Associate Professor of Population Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Associate Professor of Osteoarchaeology, Uppsala University
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Professor Emeritus of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington
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Professor of Environmental Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Professor of Mathematical Biology and Public Engagement, University of Bath
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Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Indiana University
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Lecturer in Zoology, Aberystwyth University
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Senior Lecturer in Southern Ocean Vertebrate Ecology, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania
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Senior Lecturer in Ecology, University of Wollongong