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Immediate and long-term recovery in post-earthquake Morocco
Sunday's earthquake in Morocco – the strongest to hit the center of the country in more than a century – has taken the lives of more than 2,500 ...
Disaster researchers discuss preparedness, evacuations and recovery as Hurricane Idalia bears down on Florida's Gulf Coast
It's déjà vu all over again. Less than a year after Hurricane Ian brought floods and destruction to Florida towns off the Gulf of ...
Candida auris: The deadly fungus is spreading and proving difficult to fight
Candida auris is making headlines - and for all the wrong reasons. The fungus can lead to severe infections causing long term health issues and ...
Aston University AI expertise helps estimate daily transmission rates of infections such as Covid
Model used antibody data collected at blood donation centres Data obtained allowed academics to estimate the proportion of people who were going undiagnosed Current epidemiological ...
Bivalent Boosters are Here: Our Expert Explains What You Need to Know
Updated COVID-10 booster shots are rolling out across the United States, and these new bivalent formulations target the omicron BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants that have ...
Aston University and Partnership Medical shortlisted for knowledge transfer partnership award
Aston University and Partnership Medical (PML) have been shortlisted for an award at the KTP Awards 2022. The partnership has been shortlisted in the category of ...
Expert Insight: President Biden’s COVID-19 ‘Rebound Positive’
UConn Health’s Dr. David Banach explains how a fully vaccinated and boosted person could test positive, negative, and positive again for COVID-19 within a 10...
Privacy implications of contact tracing for COVID-19
Contact tracing is the process of identification of persons who may have come into contact with an infected person and subsequent collection of further information ...
Senior lecturer at Aston University appointed as a Champion of the Microbiology Society
Dr Jonathan Cox, a senior lecturer in microbiology at Aston University, has been made a Champion of the Microbiology Society for the Midlands area, U....
Free masks are coming - here's what you need to know
As stores across America prepare to receive "the largest deployment of personal protective equipment in U.S. history," UConn epidemiologist Dr. David Banach is answering ...