Canada’s Role in the Creation of the Ebola Vaccine
Vaccines are a life-saving tool that prevent infection by training your immune system to fight against viruses and bacteria. Canada played a significant role in the creation of an Ebola...
Ethics and Exploitation: Conducting Clinical Trials in Developing Countries
Clinical trials are a necessary stepping stone for the development of safe and effective therapeutic agents. Each year approximately 900 new clinical trials are approved in Canada alone, emphasizing the...
Everything You Need to Know about Zika
[caption id="attachment_2309" align="aligncenter" width="2550"] Written and designed by Kieran Manion.[/caption]
Breaking Up is Hard to Do: Post-Ebola Syndrome Offers Insight into Viral Evolution
[caption id="attachment_1708" align="alignleft" width="359"] Digitally-coloured SEM of Ebola particles budding from the cell surface. Image Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), 2014.[/caption] On October 19th, 2014, Dr....
Act in Fear, End in Folly: Unfounded Panic Undermines Ebola Aid
[caption id="attachment_1402" align="aligncenter" width="400"] Image credit: European Commision (EC/ECHO/Cyprien Fabre).[/caption] The Ebola epidemic in West Africa is the largest ever, projected to reach 170,000 cases if nothing is done. So...
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