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2017.04.27
Guinea remains marked by the Ebola virus outbreak, which highlighted the overall weakness of its health systems. It coud still be the scene of emerging...
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2017.04.04
Viruses transmitted by arthopods such as mosquitoes and ticks are a growing global public health concern. The Mediterranean and Black Sea regions are not...
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2017.03.30
Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases are a threat to public health, as we saw with SARS in 2003, the influenza (H1N1pdm09) pandemic in 2009, MERS-CoV...
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2017.03.28
“What is it about the 21st century that makes us so particularly vulnerable to epidemics?” This is the question asked by the documentary "Unseen Enemy",...
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2017.03.29
Medical and veterinary entomology is a holistic science. Very early on in the history of human society, people became aware that there was a link between...
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2017.03.27
Population growth and economic activity are factors that largely influence ecosystem changes. These changes can in turn have consequences for human populations...
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2017.03.08
For the first time, a three-dimensional metagenomics experiment has been carried out on a mouse intestinal microbiota sample. This method quantifies and...
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2017.03.02
Zika virus infection is usually asymptomatic or mild. However, it can sometimes lead to an autoimmune disease called Guillain-Barré syndrome. In rare patients...
Report
2017.01.26
The Ebola epidemic that struck West Africa from 2013-2016 served as a reminder that the world is still very much at risk from exposure to infection. The...
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2017.01.12
In December 2015 a yellow fever epidemic broke out in Angola, subsequently giving rise to 7,300 suspected cases and nearly 400 deaths. A group of scientists...