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Conspiracy theories don’t just explain events – they identify villains, and Fauci is among the most popular.
Chaos at the CDC and the sharp move away from mRNA vaccines has public health experts alarmed.
The COVID pandemic likely began when the virus jumped from animals to humans, and didn’t start in a lab. But false narratives continue to circulate.
The WHO has classified XFG or ‘Stratus’ as a variant under monitoring. It may well become the dominant variant globally very soon.
A 25-year-old local scientist captured rare footage showing how one of the world’s deadliest viruses could jump from bats to humans.
Catching the flu or COVID can trigger a heart attack or stroke in vulnerable people. Here’s what we can all do to lower our risk.
The concentration of CO2 in the air directly affects how long a virus remains infectious.
Overfishing, disease and environmental crimes cause social and political instability, economic strife and strained international relations.
We have learned some lessons, but five years on, our healthcare and information services are still vulnerable.
More than a century ago, the US learned what happens when there is no national response to a major health crisis.
For some, the current peak of the wave has passed. For others, it’s more a slow rise in cases. Here’s what we can expect as the festive season approaches.
Yet another new COVID booster has recently been approved by the TGA. Here’s what to know about the JN.1 shot.
XEC is a recombinant variant, meaning it’s a hybrid of two previously existing variants. Genomic data suggests it’s making up around 5% of cases in Australia – but it may grow.
A new study of genetic testing of samples collected from the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan does not provide definitive clues about COVID origins.
The new COVID variant XEC may be spreading faster than other variants, but it is not a radically different variant.
A new study finds the risks of developing long COVID declined over the first two years of the pandemic. But unvaccinated adults were more than twice as likely to get long COVID compared with those who were vaccinated.
‘FLuQE’ is a direct descendant of the earlier ‘FLiRT’ variants. But an additional mutation could make it more of a worry.
In a human ‘challenge trial’ we deliberately infected volunteers with COVID to get the answer.
Although millions are navigating long COVID, four years into the pandemic both patients and their caregivers continue to face challenges accessing the information and care they need.
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Professor of Medicine, University of Virginia
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Associate Professor, Epidemiology, Deakin University
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Research associate, Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Brown University
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Associate Professor and Research Leader in Virology and Infectious Disease, Griffith University
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Vice-Chancellor's Research Fellow, School of Health and Biomedical Sciences, RMIT University
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Professor of Global Biosecurity, NHMRC L3 Research Fellow, Head, Biosecurity Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW
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Dean Faculty of Health Sciences and Professor of Vaccinology at University of the Witwatersrand; and Director of the SAMRC Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand
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Instructor of Human Immunology, Emory University
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Professor Emerita, Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Griffith University
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Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, University of South Carolina
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Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, University of South Carolina
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Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado Boulder
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