Disease Detectives

VaccinesWork profiles the scientific sleuths hunting down the next pandemic.

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Geneticist Chris Mason (right), Evan Afshin (center), and Sofia Ahsanuddin (left) sample turnstiles in New York City’s subway system in June 2016. Their swabs pick up cells that humans, animals, and microorganisms naturally shed, leaving behind genetic fingerprints. Visual: Thos Robinson/Getty Images for Weill Cornell Medicine

The uncharted world of emerging pathogens

20 Feb 2024

15 min read

Cross-posts Disease Detectives

How anthropology can bring the human element to emergency outbreak response

9 Nov 2022

9 min read

Disease Detectives Ebola COVID-19

Recycling of water on sewage treatment plant. Photo by Pok Rie from Pexels

Hunting for Pi – the next variant after Omicron – in the toilet

30 Sep 2022

3 min read

Disease Detectives COVID-19

Researchers have fitted geolocation collars to fruit bats to learn more about their migration patterns. Credit: World Organisation for Animal Health

Ebola Games: Empowering communities to spot signs of impending outbreaks

27 Sep 2022

8 min read

Disease Detectives Ebola Outbreaks

Epidemiology team. Photo by Hussein Khalil

Political animals: tracking rats and mapping human health in Brazilian favelas

24 Aug 2022

11 min read

Disease Detectives

Dr Adesola Yinka-Ogunleye leading a team of field epidemiologists in September 2017

How African scientific sleuths spotted the signs that monkeypox could become a global problem

12 Jul 2022

7 min read

Disease Detectives Mpox Pandemic preparedness

How mapping snakebite hotspots could help tackle this poisonous problem

24 Jun 2022

6 min read

Disease Detectives Climate change

Trendspotting: why pandemic preparedness needs to include big data

31 May 2022

7 min read

Disease Detectives Pandemic preparedness Mpox COVID-19

Sharper eyes, and more of them: Dr Fabian Leendertz’s ‘One Health’ institute fixes its gaze on prevention

30 May 2022

11 min read

Disease Detectives

CoughWatch: Meet the South African researchers tracking COVID-19

23 May 2022

6 min read

Disease Detectives RSV COVID-19

Professor Jason McLellan. Credit: Vivian Abagiu

Taming the spike: How Jason McLellan helped turn the tide of the pandemic

16 May 2022

9 min read

Disease Detectives COVID-19 Pandemic preparedness

Cloudy with a chance of meningitis: Using the weather to predict outbreaks in Africa

10 May 2022

6 min read

Disease Detectives Meningitis Outbreaks

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