Covid-19 pandemic is worsened without coordination
A lack of coordination in measures to control COVID-19 may accelerate cyclical outbreaks, according to a team of UF researchers.
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Transmission Dynamics
Air-tight test: how a UF duo learned to sample aerosols for viruses
UF researchers Chang-Yu Wu, an engineer, and John Lednicky, a virologist, teamed up a decade ago to solve long-standing challenges in how air samples are collected and tested for viruses. Few people grasped the public health value of their work until a novel respiratory virus gave rise to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Covid-19’s sneaky spread: half of the transmission is silent
A UF/EPI professor helped develop a model that estimates slightly more than half of COVID-19 transmission is due to people with no symptoms. A third or more of these cases would need to be isolated, in addition to most symptomatic cases, to quell the pandemic.
The big picture: EPI’s director speaks about the Covid-19 pandemic
In a wide-ranging discussion, UF's Emerging Pathogens Institute Director J. Glenn Morris, M.D., fields big-picture questions about the COVID-19 pandemic unfolding nationally and in Florida.
Researchers identify immune profiles that place people at risk of Dengue
For many viruses, contracting the pathogen can have a silver lining: The subsequent antibodies confer immunity against future infection.
Long-term global threat posed by Zika virus remains unknown, review finds
The Zika virus could become endemic in parts of Central and South America, but the long-term global threat posed by the virus remains unclear without more research, according to the authors of a paper published online in today’s issue of the journal Science.
New study eases fears of airborne Ebola
At the peak of the Ebola epidemic last fall came a frightening new possibility: a mutation that could allow the disease to spread through the air. Now University of Florida researchers have dispelled this concern using data from current and past Ebola outbreaks.
