WHY THE WORLD NEEDS AN EFFECTIVE MALARIA VACCINE
Malaria is one of the deadliest diseases that has ever existed. Every year, there are over 200 million new cases of malaria infection and nearly… Read More
EPIDEMIOLOGY
When referring to the spread of diseases, we so often hear the terms outbreaks, epidemics, and pandemics, but what do these terms actually mean and what are the differences between them? And who has the authority to ‘upgrade’ the threat level of a disease from an epidemic to a pandemic? Dr Benjamin Bailly, Research Scientist at the Institute for Glycomics, answers all these questions and more, providing a very interesting overview on epidemiology – the study and spread of diseases. Read More
