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What is hand, foot and mouth disease?

Image: Shutterstock As a new parent, I’ve become acutely aware of every person in the vicinity of my daughter who has the slightest sniffle or...

Monkeypox: World Health Organization declares it a global health emergency – here’s what that means

Image: Nareshkumar Shaganti / Alamy Stock Photo The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared the current monkeypox epidemic a global health emergency. The committee of independent advisers who...

Monkeypox is not a global emergency for now, says WHO. 3 things we need to know next about how it’s mutating and spreading

Image: Shutterstock The World Health Organization (WHO) has decided not to declare monkeypox a public health emergency of international concern. This may change in the future. However, WHO Director-General Tedros...

How monkeypox epidemic is likely to play out – in four graphs

Smallpox vaccines are effective against monkeypox. James Gathany/CDC The first case of monkeypox in a human was reported in 1970 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo....

How will Delta evolve? Here’s what the theory tells us

  Image: Shutterstock The COVID-19 pandemic is a dramatic demonstration of evolution in action. Evolutionary theory explains much of what has already happened, predicts what...

Can ‘viral shedding’ after the COVID vaccine infect others? That’s a big ‘no’

  Image: Shuttlestock Fears of “viral shedding” and other concerns after the COVID vaccine has led some businesses to ban vaccinated customers from the premises,...

We found more than 54,000 viruses in people’s poo — and 92% were previously unknown to science

 Image: Shuttlestock Research published yesterday in Nature Microbiology has identified 54,118 species of virus living in the human gut — 92% of which were previously unknown. But...

From ‘arse-ropes’ to ‘flying venom’, a history of how we have come to talk about viruses and medicine

Wes Mountain/The Conversation, CC BY-ND Symptom, virus, epidemic, quarantine. We’ve become used to these terms in 2020. But the “COVID-19 vocabulary” might have been very different had it not...

‘Deeply worrying’: 92% of Australians don’t know the difference between viral and bacterial infections

Melanie Foster/AAP Image We are four months into a global virus outbreak, and public health awareness could well be at an all-time high. Which is...

Coronavirus is a wake-up call: our war with the environment is leading to pandemics

Picture: AAP Image/Joel Carrett The COVID-19 pandemic sweeping across the world is a crisis of our own making. That’s the message from infectious disease and environmental...
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