Tag: viruses
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...
State-by-state: how Australia’s new coronavirus rules will affect you
Image: Shuttlestock
A suite of new measures aimed at slowing the spread of the coronavirus COVID-19 have been announced by federal and state governments in...
Why are older people more at risk of coronavirus?
Image: Shuttlestock
As we learn more about COVID-19, it’s increasingly clear that your risk of severe illness and death increases with age.
Children under nine years...