A Physician, A Scientist, and an Epi-nerd walk into Ebola…

Here’s a great episode from Earth’s Professor of Virology – Vincent Racaniello – on his weekly Podcast about viruses. The kind….that make you sick! In this episode we get a fantastic insight into the challenges the Ebola outbreak in west Africa has had (and continues to…) on the likes of infectious disease Physicians, field volunteer scientists and epi-nerds. You can watch the

Viral Attitudes: A Conference Apart

What a difference a day makes? Try two hundred and forty-five. Exactly that many days lay between the attitudes observed to the Ebola virus research updates from the annual Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Scientific Day held in May of 2014, to the ‘Topics in Infection’ conference held by the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene at the end of

Topics in Infection 2015

The Annual RSTMH Conference ‘Topics in Infection’ happened yesterday in London, and I was lucky enough to join in on the action. At a later date I will write on some of the exciting ongoing work and historical perspectives discussed in yesterday’s meeting, including a surprisingly entertaining talk on Imported Cases of Malaria from Professor Chris Whitty of the London

Ebola: The Hidden Thread

The family, filoviridae, of which the virus in question belongs, allows us to conjure up an image of the perpetrator; after all, the Latin filum alludes to its’ filamentous structure. A hidden threadlike set of molecules indeed. All filoviruses that have caused disease in humans have been endemic to sub-Saharan Africa only and it is here, in West Africa to be more