Recoded to Forum Agenda on 29/05/2024.
Lockdown is loosening a little in some parts of the world. For many, it means a chance to get out and do things once considered mundane. And for struggling businesses, it’s a welcome resp...
“If you don’t have access to clean water, how can you be expected to wash your hands every hour?”
By 2070, one-third of people could be living in conditions that are outside humanity’s comfort zone. That’s the conclusion of a group of scientists from the US, China and Europe who have ...
Switzerland is continuing to relax its lockdown measures, allowing people to go out and socialize more freely.
Investigadores del Reino Unido y Kenya han descubierto un microbio que protege a los mosquitos del paludismo, según un estudio publicado en Nature Communications. Los mosquitos Anopheles ...
1. Ending malaria, one microbe at a time
In March 1847, Ireland was in the grip of a famine caused by potatoes – the staple diet of the rural Irish – being all but destroyed by blight. It was the worst famine to occur in Europe ...
This year, numbers have taken on a more prominent role in all our lives. From the two-metre social distancing guidance to the R0 rate of infection, coronavirus statistics permeate our dai...
Office workers may be facing a heightened risk of COVID-19 infection, according to a South Korean study. The investigation by the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) i...
Redoutée pendant des millénaires, la variole figurait parmi les maladies les plus mortelles de l'humanité, mais n’existe plus aujourd'hui. C'est la seule maladie infectieuse qui a été éra...
The speed with which the COVID-19 coronavirus has spread is one of the hallmarks of this pandemic. Within five months of being identified it had – based on the most recent data from Johns...
Se le temió durante milenios, y fue una de las enfermedades más mortales a las que se ha enfrentado la humanidad, pero hoy la viruela ya no existe. Es la única enfermedad contagiosa que h...
Los británicos son los que más se aíslan voluntariamente, mientras que los italianos y los suecos dicen que se lavan las manos 14 veces al día. Estas son solo dos de las formas en que el ...
Les Britanniques sont les plus susceptibles de s'isoler volontairement, tandis que les Italiens et les Suédois disent se laver les mains 14 fois par jour. Ce ne sont là que deux des chang...
People in the UK are the most likely to voluntarily self-isolate, while Italians and Swedes say they wash their hands 14 times a day. These are just two of the ways people's behaviours ha...
