The World Health Organization said Friday it hopes the planet will be rid of the coronavirus pandemic in less than two years—faster than it took for the Spanish flu.
Aug 21, 2020
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Any approach to controlling an infectious disease has one of three broad aims: suppressing, eliminating or eradicating it. The UK's strategy so far has seemed to focus on suppressing the virus, trying to limit its spread, ...
Jul 29, 2020
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By now, most Americans have heard the cautionary tale of Philadelphia's decision to hold a huge patriotic parade with nearly 100,000 spectators in the fall of 1918, a super-spreader event blamed for the city's overwhelming ...
Jul 10, 2020
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Tensions over border closures are in the news again, now states are gradually lifting travel restrictions to all except Victorians.
Jul 2, 2020
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While the impact of the 1918 Spanish flu on the developed world has been extensively researched, a lot less is known about its health effects on the Global South.
Jun 11, 2020
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In a remarkable coincidence, the first media reports about Spanish flu and COVID-19 in Australia both occurred on January 25—exactly 101 years apart.
May 22, 2020
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Fake and bogus cure claims are a longstanding, but neglected public health problem. Throughout recorded history, plagues have inspired anxiety and desperation. Time and again, this public nervousness has proved a fertile ...
May 18, 2020
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Using antibodies from recovered patients has been life-saving for other acute infections and should be explored in response to COVID-19, researchers say in the International Journal of Risk & Safety in Medicine.
May 12, 2020
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One of the haunting images of this pandemic will be stationary cruise ships—deadly carriers of COVID-19—at anchor in harbours and unwanted. Docked in ports and feared.
May 11, 2020
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Though no proven treatment for COVID-19 currently exists, UC Riverside virologist Juliet Morrison feels there's a good chance one will emerge. Morrison, an assistant professor in the Department of Microbiology & Plant Pathology, ...
Apr 23, 2020
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