Author: Oyewale Tomori -Fellow, Nigerian Academy of Science The first case of Lassa fever in Nigeria was recorded in 1969. A zoonotic disease endemic to West Africa, the disease was named after the...
Author Jacqueline Weyer - Senior Medical Scientist, National Institute for Communicable Diseases Vaccines are recognised as one of the most powerful tools in controlling and preventing infectious...
Shirin Ashraf, Postdoctoral Researcher in emerging diseases, University of Glasgow Arthur Wickenhagen, PhD candidate, MRC Centre for virus research, University of Glasgow The World Health...
Amy Niang, Visiting Professor at the University of Sao Paulo and Senior Lecturer in International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand Disclosure statement: Amy Niang received a grant to cover...
Tania Prinsloo, Lecturer in Informatics, University of Pretoria, University of Pretoria South Africa is in the middle of a severe outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease. Although it’s not harmful to...
Teddy Atim, Visiting Fellow, Feinstein International Center, Tufts University For over two decades between 1986 and 2006, northern Uganda experienced a prolonged conflict pitting government forces...
Dr Melanie Bateman, Lecturer in ICM Masters programme jointly-organised by CABI, University of Neuchâtel The caterpillars of the fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda), an invasive moth, can...
Charles Shey Wiysonge, Director, Cochrane South Africa, South African Medical Research Council People are now living longer in sub-Saharan Africa than they did two decades ago. This is an...
Connor Bamford, Virologist, University of Glasgow Nearly this time exactly two years ago I wrote about the latest positive results showing – for the first time – that a vaccine against one of the...
Mosoka Fallah, Deputy Director General at National Public Health Institute of Liberia and Visiting Scientist, Harvard Medical School Disclosure statement: Mosoka Fallah-consults for MERCK/MSD as an...