Pandemic preparedness

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The cause of ‘tomato flu’: the coxsackievirus. CDC/ Dr. Erskine Palmer

‘Tomato flu’ outbreak in India – here’s what it really is

1 Sep 2022

4 min read

Five things you need to know about Langya virus

12 Aug 2022

3 min read

Langya Explainer Pandemic preparedness

COVID-19 vaccination in Ghana. Credit: Gavi/2022/Nipah Dennis.

How can we boost COVID-19 vaccine coverage in lower-income countries?

3 Aug 2022

9 min read

Pandemic preparedness Vaccine campaigns COVID-19

How the COVID-19 pandemic has affected healthcare around the world

25 Jul 2022

5 min read

COVID-19 Routine immunisation Pandemic preparedness

A doctor interviews a patient during a cholera outbreak in Chuadanga in Bangladesh. Copyright: CDC Global (CC BY 2.0). This image has been cropped.

Scientists urge close monitoring of cholera variants

21 Jul 2022

3 min read

Cross-posts Cholera Pandemic preparedness

Wooden box containing tube of calf lymph, England, 1888. Credit: Science Museum, London. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Why smallpox vaccines weren’t produced in Britain’s African colonies

13 Jul 2022

6 min read

Research summary Pandemic preparedness Explainer

Dr Adesola Yinka-Ogunleye leading a team of field epidemiologists in September 2017

How African scientific sleuths spotted the signs that monkeypox could become a global problem

12 Jul 2022

7 min read

Disease Detectives Mpox Pandemic preparedness

What are zoonotic diseases - and how dangerous are they?

6 Jul 2022

4 min read

Cross-posts Pandemic preparedness Climate change

A lab technician in Spain picks up a reactive to test suspected monkeypox samples. Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images

What’s in a name? Why giving monkeypox a new one is a good idea

28 Jun 2022

4 min read

Cross-posts Pandemic preparedness Mpox

COVID-19 virus SARS-COV-2 OMICRON strain, 3D rendering

How bad is the fresh wave of COVID-19 infections being driven by the BA.4 and BA.5 variants likely to be?

23 Jun 2022

4 min read

COVID-19 Explainer Pandemic preparedness

The plague in Florence, 1348; illustrating Boccaccio's Decameron. Wellcome Images

Q&A: How the Black Death’s origins were cracked

23 Jun 2022

11 min read

Explainer Pandemic preparedness

Community representatives come to visit a family in the outskirts of Beni to raise public health awareness Copyright: World Bank / Vincent Tremeau, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Africa ‘must step up surveillance’ to curb monkeypox

22 Jun 2022

5 min read

Cross-posts Mpox Pandemic preparedness

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