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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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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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
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