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Category Archives: Emerging Diseases
A killer snake fungus has been found in wild British snakes for the first time
Back in April 2016, we wrote about an emerging disease that’s been killing wild snake populations in North America. Snake fungal disease, or SFD, is an infection that leads to blisters and lesions on snakes’ skin, turning scales yellow and … Continue reading
Researchers are hunting for viruses that could cause the next pandemic
Scientists around the world are looking for the next SARS or MERS virus in wildlife from disease emergence ‘hotspots’. giulia/Flickr/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 In late 2002, a new kind of lung infection began to emerge in the Guandong province of southern … Continue reading
Posted in Animal Microbiology, Emerging Diseases, On the Horizon, Virology
Tagged coronavirus, MERS, SARS
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Investigating Lyme disease on the South Downs
The South Downs National Park is an area that stretches for 140 km along the South Coast of England, and is home to a huge diversity of plants and animals. Some of the smaller inhabitants of the park are ticks: … Continue reading
Posted in Animal Microbiology, Clinical and Medical Microbiology, Emerging Diseases
Tagged Lyme disease
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On the Horizon: What is Oropouche virus?
In this edition of our On the Horizon series, we take a look at an obscure virus that may cause an important emerging disease in 2017, or may remain in obscurity for much of the world. That is, except for … Continue reading
On the Horizon: Monkeypox
On 8 May 1980, after a global vaccination campaign, the WHO declared that smallpox had been eradicated. Wiping out this viral disease, which has claimed the lives of hundreds of millions of people throughout history, should be considered one of … Continue reading
Posted in Clinical and Medical Microbiology, Emerging Diseases, On the Horizon, Virology
Tagged Monkeypox, smallpox, vaccines
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Let’s Play – Plague Inc: Evolved (with a scientist)
Plague Inc: Evolved is a video game where players try to evolve a pathogen that can infect and kill the whole of humanity. While this is obviously not our aim here at the Society, the game does provide an interesting angle for looking … Continue reading
Posted in Emerging Diseases, Epidemiology, Video
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Microbe Talk: November 2016
When pathogenic viruses pass from their animal reservoir into humans – known as ‘spillover events’ – the consequences can be severe. For example, it is thought that the West African Ebola outbreak began with an 18-month-old child in Guinea contracting … Continue reading
Posted in Emerging Diseases, Podcast, Virology
Tagged Ebola virus, Emerging Diseases
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