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Category Archives: Epidemiology
Why won’t TB go away?
This September, the United Nations convened a high-level meeting aimed at addressing the global tuberculosis (TB) epidemic. Delegates heard from heads of state and political leaders, but one of the most powerful speakers was Nandita Venkatesan. Shortly after graduating from … Continue reading
What is Herd Immunity?
When you think of a herd, you probably think of cows, wildebeest or buffalo. In the animal world, there is safety in numbers – more pairs of eyes to look out for predators, for example. As humans, we don’t generally have … Continue reading
Posted in Clinical and Medical Microbiology, Epidemiology, Video
Tagged immunity, vaccine
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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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Testing the waters: Legionnaires’ disease and the Olympics
Over the next few weeks, we’ll be exploring the molecular methods that enable scientists to investigate disease outbreaks, often in real time. This week, research from the Journal of Medical Microbiology on dealing with outbreaks of Legionnaires’ disease. Water was a big topic of conversation at the Olympics … Continue reading
Posted in Environmental Microbiology, Epidemiology
Tagged bacterium, Legionella, Legionnaires' disease, olympics, swimming pool, Water
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Microbe Talk Extra: ProMED – An early warning system for emerging diseases
In the modern world, the spread of diseases like MERS, SARS, avian flu, Ebola, and Zika virus seems almost unavoidable. But to stop outbreaks spiralling out of control into global disasters, researchers, doctors and public health professionals need to know … Continue reading
Posted in Epidemiology, Podcast
Tagged early warning system, Emerging Diseases, ProMED
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What is Zika virus?
In the past few weeks, there have been a number of reports about the rise of Zika virus, another member of the family that includes yellow fever virus, dengue virus and West Nile virus. But what is Zika virus? How is … Continue reading
Posted in Clinical and Medical Microbiology, Emerging Diseases, Epidemiology, Virology
Tagged Aedes, microcephaly, mosquito, pandemic, virus, Zika
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World Leprosy Day 2015
Leprosy is among the oldest human-specific infections we currently know about. The common ancestor of the two modern bacterial species that cause leprosy, Mycobacterium leprae and M. lepromatosis, is thought to have become a parasite in early humans millions of … Continue reading
Posted in Clinical and Medical Microbiology, Epidemiology
Tagged Developing Countries, Disease, Leprosy
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Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever: A Phantom Menace
Viral haemorrhagic fevers are a poorly understood group of diseases, but they have entered the public consciousness in unprecedented fashion due to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. The viruses that cause these diseases are transmitted by a range of vectors that … Continue reading
Posted in Emerging Diseases, Epidemiology, Virology
Tagged Crimean-Congo Haemorrhagic Fever, Haemorrhagic Fever, Vaccination, vaccine
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To the batcave! Scientists hunting white-nose syndrome clues discover new bacteria
Researchers from the Czech Republic recently had a lucky break when they discovered not one but two new species of bacteria in bats that were emerging from hibernation in the Jeseníky Mountains in the north of the country. The discoveries … Continue reading
Posted in Environmental Microbiology, Epidemiology
Tagged bacteria, bats, Hibernation, White-nose syndrome
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