In the real world, new diseases emerge from complex environments. To learn more about how, scientists set up whole artificial ecosystems in the lab, instead of focusing on just one factor at a time.
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Epidemiologists want to quickly identify any emerging disease’s potential to spread far and wide. Dependent on a number of factors, this R0 number helps them figure that out and plan accordingly.
Even before people understood how germs spread disease, they tried to isolate the sick to keep them from infecting others.
The novel coronavirus spreading outward from Wuhan, China, will get an assist from a subset of infected people who transmit it to many others.
A new coronavirus related to SARS and MERS has now traveled from China to the United States. A genetic analysis reveals that this deadly pathogen may have originated in snakes.
The rise in size of your festive bird hides a chemical concern.
Stemming high HIV rates among adolescent girls and young women in sub-Saharan Africa has become a challenge due to the cycle of transmission.
HIV diagnosis is devastating for patients and their families. But the infection is no longer a death sentence, and should not be prosecuted as such say experts.
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Professor and Chair of Epidemiology, University of Michigan
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Professor of Medicine, University of East Anglia
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Veterinarian epidemiologist, Cirad
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Susan and Isaac Wakil Professor of Healthy Ageing, University of Sydney
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Professor and Chief, Infectious Disease, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo
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Infectious Diseases Physician, Senior Lecturer, James Cook University and, The University of Queensland