Tag: Disease

A Canadian lab’s Ebola experience

| January 5, 2015 | 0 Comments
A Canadian lab’s Ebola experience

An Ebola outbreak is currently raging in West Africa at a pace never seen in all past epidemics caused by Ebola virus. It is posing a severe challenge not only to the countries directly affected, where containment of the disease has not yet happened, but to countries worldwide, as concern mounts about the spread of […]

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The scourge of malaria

| June 22, 2014 | 0 Comments
The scourge of malaria

Imagine a city the size of Vancouver, teeming with life, where 90-plus percent of the inhabitants are very young children. Now try to envision the horror of this place if everyone in it were dead. This mental exercise dramatises, in the first case, the striking success of global efforts over the last 12 years to […]

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