The strong crisis management in Wuhan will probe the capacity of the Chinese government to prepare adequately for pandemic and may test Xi’s rule.
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The declaration does not mean the risk to Canadians has changed, but it does mean Canada must step up to help those countries with weaker heath-care systems.
China’s coronavirus outbreak is stoking fears that it could become the next great global pandemic. As the World Health Organization declares a global emergency, it’s also fanning a pandemic of fear.
Australian scientists have grown the Wuhan virus in a lab, and that will speed up the search for a vaccine. It also will help scientists understand how the virus is transmitted from person to person.
Asian students were bullied and excluded during the SARS outbreak. Here’s how we can get schools to help prevent that happening again.
Social media has allowed researchers around the world to collaborate and co-ordinate their efforts to fight the outbreak and contain its spread.
The novel coronavirus spreading outward from Wuhan, China, will get an assist from a subset of infected people who transmit it to many others.
Scientists do not yet know the severity of the current coronavirus. A biologist who worked on the 2009 flu pandemic offers insights on that outbreak as well as the SARS outbreak.
The novel coronavirus is not as contagious as SARS, yet public advice to schools and childcare centres is stronger. This doesn’t mean it’s medically necessary.
The preliminary evidence suggests the Wuhan coronavirus is less deadly than SARS. But with social media, panic can now spread more rapidly and further.
Airport public health officials have got better at screening at ports of entry especially for international arrivals.
How China appears to have learned from its response to the SARS crisis of 2003.
The coronavirus that has sickened hundreds in Wuhan, China, has worried health officials and other humans across the globe. Should people in the US worry?
A new coronavirus related to SARS and MERS has now traveled from China to the United States. A genetic analysis reveals that this deadly pathogen may have originated in snakes.
Chinese scientists sequence coronavirus causing pneumonia outbreak in Wuhan. And it’s never been seen before.
Moyane’s axing ends one of the last vestiges of Zuma’s continued influence in the country’s governance.
By sequencing the genomes of other species, we can better understand our place in natural history.
The obesity epidemic, the flu epidemic, the opioid epidemic… in the 21st century, everything seems to be an “epidemic”. But what does the term actually mean?
Travel allows us to see the world – and bring foreign diseases home. Here’s why spreading disease is easier than ever.
Whether or not masks can protect against invading or escaping bugs depends on the type of mask and material.
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Principal Scientist and Canada Research Chair in Zoonotic Virus and Animal Reservoirs at the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization and Co-Lead of One Health at the University of Saskatchewan, University of Saskatchewan
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Professor of Global Biosecurity, NHMRC L3 Research Fellow, Head, Biosecurity Program, Kirby Institute, UNSW
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Professor of Medicine, University of Virginia
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Associate Professor of Biology, Penn State
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Professor of Plant Pathology and Environmental Microbiology, Penn State
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Professor and Director of Doherty Epidemiology, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor in Public Law, University of Cape Town
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John Curtin Distinguished Professor of Health Science, Curtin University
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Senior Lecturer, Infectious Diseases Epidemiology and Control, UNSW
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine
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Lecturer in Virology, Queen's University Belfast
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Professor/Director Centre for Viral Zoonoses/ DST-NRF South African Research Chair, University of Pretoria
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Virologist, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Entomology and Director of the Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, Penn State
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