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AstraZeneca/GSK/University of Cambridge collaborate to support UK national effort to boost COVID-19 testing

07 Apr 2020

As part of the UK Government’s announcement of a new five pillar plan to boost testing for COVID-19, AstraZeneca, GSK and the University of Cambridge...

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Opinion: How we lost our collective memory of epidemics

31 Mar 2020

Over the past 70 years richer nations have gradually lost their sense of danger concerning epidemics and serious infections, writes Professor Gordon...

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Opinion: Climate change, pandemics, biodiversity loss – no country is sufficiently prepared

01 Nov 2019

Two Cambridge risk researchers discuss how national governments are still stuck on "old problems", and run through the things that should be keeping...

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'Significant breakthrough' in understanding the deadly nature of pandemic influenza

18 Sep 2018

Researchers at the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford have discovered a new molecule that plays a key role in the immune response...

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Geographic patterns of spread of influenza pandemic

Citizen science experiment predicts massive toll of flu pandemic on the UK

22 Mar 2018

How fast could a new flu epidemic spread? The results of the UK’s largest citizen science project of its kind ever attempted, carried out by...

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Threat of novel swine flu viruses in pigs and humans

27 Apr 2016

The wide diversity of flu in pigs across multiple continents, mostly introduced from humans, highlights the significant potential of new swine flu...

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Map of the H1N1 influenza pandemic in 2009. The size of the dots is relative to city size, and the colours relate to the number of influenza cases, with green the lowest and purple the highest.

New analysis of 'swine flu' pandemic conflicts with accepted views on how diseases spread

01 Jul 2014

New analysis of the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic in the US shows that the pandemic wave was surprisingly slow, and that its spread was likely...

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Researchers at the WHO Collaborating Centre for Modelling, Evolution and Control of Emerging Infectious Diseases

Cambridge researchers support the WHO

20 Dec 2012

A newly designated Collaborating Centre at the University of Cambridge will support the World Health Organization (WHO) in detecting and responding...

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Original sin and the risk of epidemics

10 Oct 2012

Mathematicians are helping to build a better picture of how populations develop immunity to flu and which groups are most at risk of getting – and...

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