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Global Health Threats
In a hyper-connected world, the risk from deadly pandemics spreading with airplane speed is distressingly real. What makes this scenario even more threatening is the fact that we seem to be losing the race to control mutated pathogens by means of new antibiotics. In this channel you will find everything you need to know about the subject.
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Stocking the Shelves for the Next Pandemic
Despite previous warnings, drug makers failed to prepare a stockpile of compounds to fight viral pandemics. Can they finally do the right thing?
Nature, 2021
First Genetically Modified Mosquitoes Released in the United States
Biotech firm Oxitec launches controversial field test of its insects in Florida after years of opposition from residents and regulatory complications.
Nature, 2021
‘Loneliness on the Job Is a Public Health Crisis’
Former Surgeon General Reveals What This Means for You
Forbes, 2020
Experts Knew a Pandemic Was Coming. Here’s What They’re Worried About Next.
Nine disasters we still aren’t ready for.
Politico Magazine, 2020
The Reemergence of Yellow Fever
Since 2016, yellow fever outbreaks have become a major public health concern
Science, 2018
Plagues and the Paradox of Progress
Why the World Is Getting Healthier in Worrisome Ways
MIT Press, 2018
