After spending the majority of the past few weeks driving motorbikes through untold scenery and unprecedented quantities of dust, it is time to acknowledge that my time here is soon coming to an end. Here I look to my next challenge – a career in medicine.
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During my short stay in the Golden state, I began to wonder how the Dengue Virus mosquito-vector (Aedes Aegypti) were introduced here back in 2013, and whether Philandtropical could get a sexy logo.
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Here’s a great episode from Earth’s Professor of Virology – Vincent Racaniello – on his weekly Podcast about viruses. The kind….that make you sick! In this episode we get a fantastic insight into the challenges the Ebola outbreak in west Africa has had (and continues to…) on the likes of infectious disease Physicians, field volunteer scientists and epi-nerds. You can watch the
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I catch up with former classmate Nicole Yan, who is working out in rural Kenya on a project aimed at improving health outcomes for pregnant women and their future babies. But how did she get this gig? Why is it so important? … And can we do anything to help? Nicole, you were in my cohort at the London School of
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During a long haul flight from Asia to London, I hurriedly prepare for a PhD interview on touch-down. I reason that In-flight entertainment sounds a reasonable sacrifice for these next few hours of my life. Given the 1.4 million lives lost to TB a few years earlier, it sounds more than reasonable. But Iron Man 3 surely!?!?!…. It’s early September a
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Hand, Food and Mouth Disease cases have boomed in SE Asia to phenomenally high levels. It’s a growing and emerging threat to the health of infants.
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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
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What a difference a day makes? Try two hundred and forty-five. Exactly that many days lay between the attitudes observed to the Ebola virus research updates from the annual Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Scientific Day held in May of 2014, to the ‘Topics in Infection’ conference held by the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene at the end of
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International borders are meaningless to infectious diseases such as Yellow Fever Date of Event: July 19th 2014 The tatty card with its leaden yellow shade lay submerged under various other travel documents at the bottom of my rugged rucksack, falling within eyeshot as the Impala brought us closer to the border of Kenya and the United Republic of Tanzania. Through
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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