Fowl Plague

Your Pandemics Questions Answered

Vulnerable individuals should always have a flu vaccination at the appropriate time of the year–outside of the grip of a pandemic,...
Duncan Geere
Nov 10, 2017 5 min read

Outbreak

If an enterprising bookmaker decided to offer odds on which apocalyptic event is most likely to wipe out the human race,...
Simon Parkin
Oct 6, 2017 10 min read

Airborne: We’re Five Mutations From a Major Pandemic

In 2012, a team of virologists led by Ron Fouchier showed how easily H5N1 avian flu could become one of the...
Duncan Geere
Sep 29, 2017 22 sec read

Evolution

Anyone entering the virological laboratory, one of the most highly regarded in Europe, was subject to a security check. Workers were...
Simon Parkin
Sep 22, 2017 8 min read

The Machine and the Mosquito

According to the World Health Organization, there were 212 million new cases of malaria worldwide in 2015, 90 percent of which...
Greg Noone
Sep 15, 2017 10 min read

Birds on the March

The cull had squashed H5N1's short-term chances. But the government's throttling of information ensured that the disease had long-term prospects. In...
Simon Parkin
Sep 8, 2017 8 min read

Zoonosis

Nipah virus was a classic example of a "zoonosis": a disease being transmitted from animals to humans, or vice versa. Zoonotic...
Claire Asher
Aug 29, 2017 6 min read

Foreshadowing

Almost a century later, three things are certain: that the first confirmed case of Spanish flu occurred, that it originated not...
Simon Parkin
Aug 25, 2017 7 min read

Inception

Humanity and the world we inhabit may be facing a bevy of looming disasters, but for Fukuda the question of whether...
Simon Parkin
Aug 11, 2017 6 min read

Pandemics: A Reading List

"The epidemic is seldom mentioned, and most Americans have apparently forgotten it. This is not surprising. The human mind always tries...
Duncan Geere
Aug 9, 2017 2 min read
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