Can bats – the carriers of many deadly diseases – help humans survive the next pandemic?

Bats are believed to be hosts for several of coronaviruses that causes diseases like SARS and MERS.

Arinjay Banerjee, Karen Mossman, The Conversation

· Dec 03, 2017 · 02:30 pm

Fighting off political and financial challenges, Mozambique’s sex workers are stopping HIV

Sex workers in Mozambique are providing health support to those at the margins of society.

Jules Montague, Mosaic

· Aug 20, 2017 · 02:30 pm

The myth of ‘Patient Zero’ deflects attention from how outbreaks really happen

A recent article in ‘Nature’ shows how HIV entered the US years before Gaëtan Dugas, thought to be Patient Zero, arrived.

Leyla Mei, Aeon

· Mar 09, 2017 · 01:30 pm

Vaccine-derived polio found in Hyderabad sewage is an outcome of India’s immunisation strategy

Public health experts expect to find vaccine-derived polio virus in the environment for at least the next year.

Menaka Rao and Nayantara Narayanan

· Jun 16, 2016 · 12:30 pm

Sierra Leone may be Ebola-free, but the war against the virus is far from over

Science should now be at the service of Ebola survivors and not the other way around, according to a public health specialist with Médecins Sans Frontières.

Scroll Staff

· Nov 16, 2015 · 12:30 pm