As the world grapples with one of the largest recorded outbreaks of bird flu (H5N1 avian influenza) concerns have been raised in the media about the potential risks to human health and whether this is the next pandemic we should be preparing for.
Professor Graham Medley has been awarded the prestigious Gabor Medal for leading an interdisciplinary team who provided epidemiological modelling expertise during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The third day of World Immunisation Week will concentrate on Tuberculosis, focusing on vaccine development, progress, equity and clinical trials. The webinar, chaired by Toyin Togun from LSHTM, will include a presentation by Jayne Sutherland from LSHTM on TB vaccine development and Richard White from LSHTM on the contribution of TB vaccines to global TB control.
let s get more on hospital trusts in england declaring critical incidents the highest state of alert as the nhs comes under significant strain from rising covid infections. dr leon danon is associate professor in infectious disease modelling and data analytics at bristol university, and is a member of the goverment s advisory disease modelling group spi m. speaking to us in a personal capacity he said daily cases of over 200,000 yesterday are likely to be an underestimate and represent a real cause for concern . it is still growing, i don t think there is any evidence of it slowing down anywhere in the countryjust yet, so the only way the numbers are going to go is up. we need to remember that we haven t yet seen the peak of this epidemic due to the fact that people are no longer able to get covid at all, so that means