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  • Close-up photograph of a pygmy rice rat (Oligoryzomys genus) on green foliage. Andes virus is transmitted mainly by the long-tailed pygmy rice rat (Oligoryzomys longicaudatus).

    Should I be freaked out by the hantavirus?

    Until recently, most of us had probably never even heard of the hantavirus. Now – with memories of the…

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    Danny Wright

    Vaccine Scientist

    I’m a vaccine researcher and senior immunologist at the Oxford Vaccine Group and Pandemic Sciences Institute at the University…

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  • 'The Gout', a Georgian caricature by James Gillray (1799).

    Science and the Satirists

    “As we scroll, somewhat aimlessly, through our social media feeds, it seems reasonable to think that we are in…

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  • Rebecca, a volunteer participant in the malaria 'challenge' study run by the Draper Lab at the University of Oxford.

    The Malaria Challenge: a participant’s experience through a malaria ‘challenge’ study

    Malaria impacts millions of people worldwide, with approximately 240 million cases and over 600,000 deaths each year. So what…

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