Our approach to combating pandemics must shift to one that prioritizes prevention of human infections with zoonotic viruses, rather than focusing on rapid response once human infection is widespread.
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It’s excellent this virus has been found early, but there is no evidence yet of human-to-human transmission.
People have lived with infectious disease throughout the millennia, with culture and biology influencing each other. Archaeologists decode the stories told by bones and what accompanies them.
Bickering between the states and Victoria’s initial silence on the outbreak made the 1919 Spanish flu pandemic worse.
Communication from public health and government officials during a health threat is a critical component of preventing and treating a disease. An expert who worked on the anthrax scare explains.
The 1918-1919 flu claimed millions of lives worldwide. Could it also have given birth to the viral zombie?
All too often, researchers around the world act in competition when trying to answer research questions in an emergency situation, such as outbreaks of the flu. The UK is trialling a new approach.
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Distinguished University Professor of Communication, Wayne State University
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Professor of English, University of Richmond
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Director, Vice-Chancellor's Centre of Public Ideas (CoPI) and Donald Horne Professor of History and Public Ideas, University of Canberra
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Executive Director, Global Nexus and M.G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research, McMaster University
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Professor of Archaeology, Durham University
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Professor of Archaeology and Biological Anthropology, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Population Health, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
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Professor of Anthropology, Michigan State University
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine