For a fairly non-descript virus Zika continues to surprise us. Zika has hit the headlines yet again with the news that there’s been transmission in Brazil of two cases by blood transfusion.
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Guillain-Barré syndrome is not new. This year is the 100-year anniversary of its description.
Insecticides and mosquito nets only get you so far. Synthetic biologists are ready to take the battle against mosquito-borne disease to the level of DNA – which might spell the insects’ ultimate doom.
Models based on where the mosquitoes that transmit Zika are found and human travel patterns to and from infected areas are key to predicting where the virus will spread.
Overnight, World Health Organisation Director-General Margaret Chan declared the outbreak of Zika virus a public health emergency. So what does this mean?
As Zika fear rises, people are inevitably asking why we don’t have a vaccine to protect against the mosquito-borne virus.
Zika is quite different to Ebola – and experts would do well to wait before making recommendations this time.
The unfolding information about the Zika virus and saddening images of babies infected with microcephaly should really scare us all. The disease has spread “explosively” throughout the Americas, with 32…
Love, sex and babies are the foundation of human existence. Without them the human race ceases to exist. Zika has suddenly disrupted this normal course of events.
Zika was discovered almost 70 years ago, but wasn’t associated with outbreaks until 2007. So how did this formerly obscure virus wind up causing so much trouble in Brazil?
They’re small, spindly insects but their threat never dwindles – the bites of mosquitoes threaten death and disease in many parts of the world.
We monitor mosquitoes to help predict and control virus outbreaks. And a new technique for collecting mosquito saliva from the field has made the process both more sensitive and inexpensive.
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Clinical Associate Professor, School of Medical Science & Sydney Infectious Diseases Institute; Principal Hospital Scientist, University of Sydney
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Medical Entomologist, The University of Queensland
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Medical scientist, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Epidemiologist, Honorary Associate Professor, Australian National University
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Principal Medical Scientist and Head of Laboratory for Antimalarial Resistance Monitoring and Malaria Operational Research, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Associate Dean For Global One Health, College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences; and Director, Pandemic and Biosecurity Policy Program, Scowcroft Institute for International Affairs, Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University
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Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University
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Distinguished Professor, Public Health and Medical Anthropology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Project Manager; Centre for Advanced Training Systems, University of Newcastle
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Dean Students, College of Health, Adelaide University
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Lecturer (University of Tasmania), University of Tasmania
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Professor of Sociology, The University of Texas at Austin
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Emeritus Professor of Zoology, University of Aberdeen
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Senior lecturer, University of York
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Boswell Distinguished Professor of Global Health, DePauw University