Stories
- Article
Fake news and the flu
Discover how history shows that fake news could play a deadly role – by generating potentially lethal misinformation during a future pandemic.
- Book extract
The science of why things spread
From deadly pandemics to viral tweets, Adam Kucharski explores what makes something contagious.
- Article
On contagion
Reading descriptions of the way humans become infested by parasitic flatworms, Daisy Lafarge experienced painful physical symptoms. Perhaps the very creature she was studying had invaded her body.
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Unravelling genetic origins from the potato to cinchona
Starting with the humble potato, Nataly Allasi Canales reveals how researchers unearth the genetic origins of modern plant varieties, and explains why their work is so important for biodiversity.
Catalogue
- Books
Pathogens for war : biological weapons, Canadian life scientists, and North American biodefence / Donald Avery.
Avery, Donald, 1938-Date: [2013]- Books
Virulence mechanisms of bacterial pathogens / edited by Kim A. Brogden [and others].
Date: [2000], ©2000- Books
Emerging pathogens : archaeology, ecology, and evolution of infectious disease / edited by Charles L. Greenblatt & Mark Spigelman.
Date: 2003- Books
- Online
People, pathogens, and our planet. Volume 2, The economics of One Health.
Date: 2012- Books
Pathogens and people / prepared for the course team by Basiro Davey, David Male and Michael Gillman.
Davey, Basiro.Date: 2003
