Hiroshi Nishiura
theoretical epidemiologist
'More, rather than less effort' needed to fight Covid-19 - Michael Bakerwww.rnz.co.nz From Monday, people aged 14 and over will pay for Covid-related visits to the GP. Epidemiologist Michael Baker says 'we have to do better' with the ongoing response to the disease.
Heat-related mortality in Europe during the summer of 2022 - Nature Medicinewww.nature.com This ecological analysis using the Eurostat database estimated that summer 2022, the hottest summer on record, was associated with over 61,000 heat-related deaths across 35 countries in Europe, with t...
Study Confirms One Type of COVID Mask Is 'Significantly Better' Than Otherswww.sciencealert.com They're not all the same.
First encounter with SARS-CoV-2: immune portraits of COVID susceptibilitywww.nature.com Controlled infection with SARS-CoV-2 of people who hadn’t previously been exposed to the virus reveals how molecular and cellular signatures of the immune response portend effective defence against CO...
The Emergence and Evolution of SARS-CoV-2 | Annual Reviewswww.annualreviews.org The origin of SARS-CoV-2 has evoked heated debate and strong accusations, yet seemingly little resolution. I review the scientific evidence on the origin of SARS-CoV-2 and its subsequent spread throug...
Insights into avian influenza A(H5N1) events: epidemiological patterns and genetic analysiswww.tandfonline.com Published in Infectious Diseases (Ahead of Print, 2024)
Influenza A genomic diversity during human infections underscores the strength of genetic drift and the existence of tight transmission bottleneckst.co Abstract. Influenza infections result in considerable public health and economic impacts each year. One of the contributing factors to the high annual inci
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