The immediate risk is very low. The discovery shows how warmer weather may change Britain’s defences against mosquito-borne disease.
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Flooding alters the environment in ways that favour malaria transmission.
In 1843, William Rowan Hamilton had a four-dimensional flash of insight that still shapes our three-dimensional world.
Heat, floods and droughts create conditions for pathogens and their vectors.
The bacterium that causes Lyme disease is a master of disguise, changing its appearance to evade the immune system as it moves from the ticks that carry it to humans or animals.
Swedish mathematician Per Enflo famously received a live goose for settling a difficult unsolved problem. Has he done it again?
Invasive species cause billions of dollars in damage across the US every year. Hikers and backpackers can take simple steps to avoid spreading seeds and making the problem worse.
Yellow fever, malaria and Ebola all spilled over from animals to humans at the edges of tropical forests. The new coronavirus is the latest zoonosis.
Washing hands and coughing into your elbow can help limit the spread of infectious diseases on planes and around the globe. So why don’t passengers read about this in their inflight magazines?
Tick-borne diseases are becoming more common in the United States. A public health entomologist outlines some of the lesser-known threats ticks pose to human health.
South Africa is piloting a new technique as it drives to eliminate malaria.
Several countries within southern Africa are on the brink of eliminating malaria. But there are several challenges ahead.
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Senior Medical Scientist, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Research Chair, Integrated Vector Management in the Vector Control Cluster, Centre for Sustainable Malaria Control, University of Pretoria
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Professor of biology and infectious diseases, Centro Universitário Faculdade de Medicina do ABC
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Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Florida
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Clinical Chair and Professor of Infection Prevention and Disease Control at the University of Sydney, University of Sydney
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Head: Division of Medical Virology, Stellenbosch University
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Senior Data Analyst, Head of Data Science at Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation (CERI), Stellenbosch University
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Senior Lecturer in the School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney
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Research scientist/Adjunct professor, University of Saskatchewan
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Postdoctoral Researcher of Pathogen Genomics, Stellenbosch University
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Professor of Epidemiology, Universidade de São Paulo (USP)
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Extension Professor of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Entomology and Plant Pathology, Mississippi State University
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Head Scientific Research Support, Stellenbosch University
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PhD candidate in Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, Boise State University
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Director of the Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation (CERI) at Stellenbosch University and the KwaZulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Plaform (KRISP)., Stellenbosch University