Catching personal stories of infectious diseases Mixing personal stories with medical information main driver of project
Thu, May 27, 2021, 06:01
When folklore researcher Cliona O’Carroll and immunologist Beth Brint from University College Cork came up with the idea to develop an online resource which mixed personal accounts of illness and death from infectious diseases with medical information about these diseases, they never thought their project would coincide with a global pandemic.
“Everyone’s an immunologist now,” jokes Brint, who says that public awareness of how infections spread and the role of vaccines to prevent severe disease and death has never been better.