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It is important that we all have the same goal: a climate-neutral and resilient future in which our children can live in security and prosperity. Photo: Brenton Geach/Gallo Images

Climate change, deforestation fuel virus outbreaks

Climate change is a risk to public health that demands immediate action

A medical health worker injects the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine to a woman as they visit door-to-door to deliver the vaccines to people who live far from health facilities in Siaya, Kenya, on May 18, 2021. (Photo by Brian ONGORO / AFP)

The climate crisis is also a health crisis

The interplay between climate change and the spread of pathogens means health systems must be ready for future crises and ensure equitable access to treatment

Wrapped in a mosquito net to protect from malaria, a trader sleeps next to items. (Photo by Badru Katumba/AFP)

Artificial lights across Africa may alter the biting behaviours of mosquitoes

‘Artificial light is doing things to the environment that we don’t even think about’

Proactive: Teachers and support staff queue for the Covid-19 vaccination at Universitas Hospital in Bloemfontein in the face of the more transmittable Delta variant. (Mlungisi Louw/Gallo Images/Volksblad)

Covid-19 crash course: Everything you need to know about viruses, variants and vaccines

Covid-19 variants are new versions of the virus that are smarter at surviving. But before we can understand what these changed forms mean for vaccines, we first need to go back…

A man in protective gear disinfects a bus. The disinfection consists of washing the exterior of a bus, dry sweeping and wet cleaning the inside and aerosol spraying. (Artur Harutyunyan Tass via Getty Images)
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Covid-19: Lessons from the zombie apocalypse

Humans are primed to lay the blame for this pandemic at nature’s door, but if we do not wish to reap disaster, we should not sow its seeds

SA Hockey captain Austin Smith.

SA Hockey players recovered from dengue fever

Two members of the SA men’s hockey team have recovered from the mosquito-borne illness after contracting it in Malaysia during the World League.

A Dominican doctor observes Aedes aegypti mosquitoes

Large dengue fever outbreak in Madeira spreads cases in Europe

Europe is experiencing its first sustained transmission of dengue fever since the 1920s, with more than 1 300 people infected in Madeira, Portugal.