Exploring Hong Kong’s history of pandemics and its impact on the city
The latest instalment of Contagious Cities explores Hong Kong’s experience of pandemics and the cultural and social impacts of disease on its community.
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Contagious Cities
Our international cultural programme explored local stories of contagion in Berlin, Geneva, Hong Kong and New York.
115 years of malaria in Africa: despite unprecedented decline since 2000, progress has stalled
115 years of malaria data collected in Africa, described today in Nature, gives the most detailed picture yet of where efforts to control malaria infection are being won and…
We hail individual geniuses, but success in science comes through collaboration
The Nobel prizes give a human face to science. But does celebrating individuals risk undermining a collaborative research culture?
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Jeremy Farrar
Wellcome launches Contagious Cities
A major international collaboration including New York, London, Hong Kong and Geneva, exploring the physical, social and cultural effects of infectious disease.
This virus isn’t going away. The only way to beat it is to work together
Six months on from the first case of COVID-19, the pandemic is accelerating and spreading into new areas. Jeremy Farrar talks about the lessons we learned and the long-term…
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- Jeremy Farrar
Why we still haven’t stopped cholera
Why have attempts to get it under control failed? Rose George reports on an outbreak that went on far longer than anyone expected.
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Rose George
Wellcome statements on Covid-19
Statements issued by Wellcome in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.