Since it was first picked up 3 years ago, MERS-Coronavirus has gone global. During my short trip to the Philippines, I don full protective gear as I’m given the chance to see suspected cases up close and personal. We still don’t know where it came from, nor do we have any medicines to treat it.
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Under two distinct guises, a foreign fiend continues to challenge clinicians in Manila. Our world is changing, and the scope of Malaria is too. Earlier this week, I saw it with my own eyes.
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During a whirlwind final week to the first term of Graduate Medical School, I find myself presenting amongst passionate early career researchers at a Royal Society conference, and reminded of the challenges we face in the complex field of Tropical Medicine.
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The cockerels were exuberantly sounding the alarm, proclaiming the ascent of the Far Eastern sun as though the new day offered potential to every desire in these spiritual lands. Cock-a-doodle-doo!!!! Cock-a-doodle-doo!!!! The other vacationers, which included my English father and Filipino mother with a collage of cousins, uncles and aunties, had voyaged from the polluted megalopolis of Manila to this
Read moreThe Annual RSTMH Conference ‘Topics in Infection’ happened yesterday in London, and I was lucky enough to join in on the action. At a later date I will write on some of the exciting ongoing work and historical perspectives discussed in yesterday’s meeting, including a surprisingly entertaining talk on Imported Cases of Malaria from Professor Chris Whitty of the London
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Settling into a recent Vietnamese breakfast ritual of mine, which I’m swiftly becoming accustomed to, of ‘Pho’ and ‘Bahn My’ accompanied by the beast of an engine starter that is “cà phê sữa đá”, I open up my e-mails to some worrying news. A colleague at the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit – Jackie – had sent me a link
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