The last gasp of polio
The World Health Organisation is currently vaccinating 116 million African children against the preventable disease, polio. This week, 190,000 vaccinators…
Professor John Oxford
John Oxford is Emeritus Professor of Virology at Queen Mary’s School of Medicine and Dentistry. He is Founder of Retroscreen Virology Ltd and Oxford Media and Medicine Ltd.
Hacked off by the adenovirus
Every year, thousands of people in the UK get a bout of cold, (which is not the same as influenza), but can…
Indian summer flu
Will our Indian summer make the flu season any worse? In my opinion, yes, but not for the reasons you…
Why we’ll never beat the flu virus (unlike Zika)
Zika, which has been linked to a huge increase in the number of babies born with small heads in Brazil, may be…