I have flown straight into back-to-back Philippine Typhoons, hearing frequent reports of floods and landslides. Looking forward to 2016, there is cautious optimism amongst scientists and clinicians for combating an altogether different geographical hazard across this region of tropics, with the potential rollout of a vaccine for Dengue Virus!
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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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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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