Veterinarians Needed More Than Ever Given Pandemic Risk
The risk of future pandemics is very real, and this article will argue that, given the nature of the risk, ...
Tag: infectious diseases
Climate Change Poses Dire Health and Human Rights Risks
Climate change has not traditionally been seen as a health and human rights concern — but that may be changing ...
The Pandemic Agreement Draft: Will It Fully Embrace One Health?
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, in 2021 a global process was launched to develop an accord on pandemic ...
Dengue Fever: Not Getting Many Headlines, But It Should
For many of the last few years, our infectious disease attention has been on COVID-19 and its huge human, social, ...
How Do You Eliminate or Eradicate an Infectious Disease?
The COVID-19 pandemic gave the world a crash course in epidemiology and showed in real time how an infectious disease can spread ...
The Climate Is Changing: What This Means for Our Fight Against Infectious Diseases
In September 2020, the investigative podcast “Radiolab” published an episode exploring the story of a mysterious fungal infection appearing simultaneously ...
Our Genetic Legacy: How It Protects Us and How It Doesn’t
Could evolutionary genetics - the study of our genes over time - come to our aid in fighting future pandemics? ...
Cholera and Climate Change: What’s the Link?
As climate change’s effects intensify, cholera cases are spiking. The number of people annually affected by the disease is estimated ...
Our Emissions Are Aggravating Over Half of All Infectious Diseases
Climate change and our emissions can and do make us more vulnerable to infectious diseases. This has been proven in ...
Dealing With Infectious Disease Outbreaks: Up to the Job?
Numerous infectious disease outbreaks and emergencies are reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) on almost a daily basis, with ...
What’s Outer Space Got to Do with COVID-19?
As we know, the novel virus COVID-19-SARS-CoV-2 was not made public for a time by the People’s Republic of China ...
Global Warming Puts Us on the Verge of Virus Spillover
The COVID-19 virus, which has caused over 6.1 million deaths from over 500 million cases in almost every part of ...
