COVID-19 continues to ravage the world in waves and ways that are seemingly unstoppable. Even now, the unresolved debates about vaccination and herd immunity will ensure that the virus will affect us long into the future. And then there is the unspeakable discourse that centres around the possibility that the virus is a Darwinian cull […]
Month: December 2020
With the advent of antibiotics in the first half of the last century, traditional public health went into hibernation. Communicable or infectious diseases surfaced only occasionally, and usually only in small outbreaks of old foes such as TB, leprosy and polio. Most of these outbreaks were contained and in relatively inaccessible locations subject to a small […]
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