By tackling local threats and controlling existing diseases, countries are able to build the capacity needed to deal with future emerging disease threats.
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A disease suspected to be Mpox is on the rampage in Nigeria. In less than one month, it has spread to seven of the country’s 36 states and infected 31 people.
Many states in Nigeria are reeling from cholera outbreaks. They need better health and sanitation infrastructure to disrupt transmission of the bacteria which cause the disease.
Bacteria are everywhere, even on your drink garnishes and ice. While most are not going to harm you, some can make you very sick. Here are some things to consider at public drink stations.
Lassa outbreaks are becoming more widespread in Nigeria but have not been given national emergency status like Ebola.
African leaders need to up their health allocations to help the new World Health Organisation Director-General meet his health care targets for the continent.
Emerging research suggests that preexisting immunity to dengue virus, which is endemic in South America, could make a subsequent Zika infection worse.
The recent severe thunderstorm in Melbourne caused hospitals across the city to be put on emergency alert as thousands of people called ambulance services, reporting severe breathing difficulties.
We found that less than 1% of published research papers around the time of both outbreaks, that related to the outbreaks, actually explored their gendered impact.
We need better surveillance systems to detect epidemics early. But while social media has been flagged as a potential solution, we’re not quite there yet.
What could we do if a real-life zombie disease started to spread?
Public health experts enlist the molecular biology tools that create genetically modified organisms – as well as the GMOs themselves – in the fight against emerging infectious diseases.
There is no vaccine to prevent or medicine to treat the chikungunya virus infection. The only available method of prevention is through shielding people from mosquito bites.
Hand, foot and mouth disease may not be a public health priority, but parents and caregivers at day-care centres should still be careful about its spread.
Angola’s yellow fever outbreak has been declared a grade 2 emergency by the World Health Organisation.
To tackle Zika and other viral outbreaks, we need to focus not only on the pathology of the disease, but also on the global political and economic architecture.
How does an institution like the World Bank come to put a price tag on a virus like Zika or any other health calamity?
Aedes aegypti is adapted to live in close proximity with humans, and this close association likely contributes to the severity of the Zika outbreak.
Illness from prepackaged salads isn’t uncommon. So how do we protect ourselves from illness when eating salads?
When the measles vaccine was introduced, it was associated with reductions in more childhood disease deaths than were actually caused by the measles. How does that work?
Top contributors
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Fellow, Nigerian Academy of Science
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Professor of Global Biosecurity, NHMRC L3 Research Fellow, Head, Biosecurity Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW
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Associate Professor of Epidemiology, Texas A&M University
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Regents' Professor & Chair, Medical Laboratory Science, Texas State University
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Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Senior Lecturer, Infectious Diseases Epidemiology and Control, UNSW
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Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Deakin University
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Professor of Neurology, Medicine (Infectious Diseases), and Epidemiology, University of Colorado Anschutz
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Lecturer in Virology, Queen's University Belfast
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Associate Professor of Biology, Penn State
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Associate Professor of History, Rutgers University - Newark
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Affiliate Professor of Veterinary Medicine, Auburn University
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Senior Lecturer in Microbiology and Fermentation Technology, Federation University Australia
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Associate Professor, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Queensland
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Lecturer, Manchester Metropolitan University