Disease detectives: keeping track of new and emerging infectious diseases
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By Jennifer Lloyd, PHE epidemiologist
Ebola! Marburg! Zika virus! Black Death!
These are words you may have heard quite a lot these past few years. Almost every day, somewhere in the world, there are stories in the media about diseases which can kill us or rumours of a new ‘eye-bleeding disease’. While these might be entertaining to read, they are very frustrating for us as Emerging Infections scientists, because they spread a lot of misinformation and fear.
While this is all very interesting...
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