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Selected Media Coverage

  • The 3 Simple Rules That Underscore the Danger of Delta
    The Atlantic - July 1, 2021

  • Covid-19 cases will likely rise again in the fall. Here’s how to keep schools open
    Washington Post - June 1, 2021

  • Has the Pandemic Transformed the Office Forever?
    The New Yorker - January 25, 2021

  • Why cold weather makes it harder for the body to fight respiratory infections
    National Geographic - December 15, 2020

  • Winter Offers Perfect Conditions for Covid-19 Spread, Studies Show
    The Wallstreet Journal - December 4, 2020

  • How to shift into COVID-19 research
    Nature Career - November 20, 2020

  • It’s Time to Talk About Covid-19 and Surfaces Again
    Wired - October 20, 2020

  • Why COVID outbreaks look set to worsen this winter
    Nature News - October 23, 2020

  • Experts reveal how to optimise heat and humidity to reduce Covid transmission inside the home
    The Telegraph - October 22, 2020

  • Covid-19 superspreader events emerge as focus of concern
    NBC - October 7, 2020

  • A negative Covid-19 test isn’t an all-clea
    Vox - October 8, 2020

  • What super-spreading events teach us about protecting ourselves from COVID-19
    Smithsonian Magazine - August 19, 2020

  • Why coronavirus superspreading events happen
    NPR, All Things Considered - Aug 21, 2020

  • Most People With Coronavirus Won’t Spread It. Why Do a Few Infect Many?
    New York Times - June 30, 2020

  • How exactly do you catch coronavirus? There is a growing consensus
    Wall Street Journal - June 16, 2020

  • Here's the best way to clean your face mask
    National Geographic - May 28, 2020

  • Case clustering emerges as key pandemic puzzle
    Science - May 22, 2020

  • Infrared Cameras Can Spot a Fever, but May Not Slow Covid-19
    Wired - May 11, 2020

  • Why the Coronavirus Is So Confusing
    The Atlantic - April 29, 2020

  • Is the coronavirus airborne? Experts can’t agree
    Nature News - April 2, 2020

  • Dogs Cautioned Away From Sea Lions Amid Deadly Bacterial Outbreak
    San Francisco Weekly - October 16, 2018

  • California Sea Lion Population Hit Hard By Bacterial Outbreak
    KQED - October 16, 2018

  • Potentially deadly infection hits California sea lions
    LA Times - October 16, 2018

  • More than half of the California sea lions rescued this year have been suffering from effects of the bacteria that can cause fatal kidney damage
    The Marine Mammal Center - October, 2018

  • The ghost of influenza past and the hunt for a universal vaccine
    Nature News feature - August 08, 2018

  • The year of your birth affects your resistance to flu
    The Economist - November 15, 2016

  • Worried about getting bird flu? Check your birth date
    USA Today- November 13, 2016

  • First flu strain partly determines lifetime immunity: U.S. scientists
    Xinhua - November 11, 2016

  • 'First flu' affects lifetime risk
    BBC News - November 11, 2016

  • Child's 1st flu could set lifelong risk, including risk of bird flu, study finds
    CBC News - November 11, 2016

  • Why Some Flus Are Deadliest in Young Adults
    The Atlantic - November 10, 2016

  • Your flu risk may be linked to the year you were born
    CNN - November 10, 2016

  • Will you get nasty flu this year? The year you were born can predict it, says study
    The Guardian - November 10, 2016

  • Your Birth Year Might Help Shield You From Bird Flu Strains
    US News and World Report - November 10, 2016

  • Warum der Geburtstag das Grippe-Risiko bestimmt [Why the birthday determines flu risk]
    Die Welt - November 16, 2016

  • How farms made dogs love carbs, the role of dumb luck in science, and what your first flu exposure did to you
    Science podcast - November 10, 2016

  • 15 threatened natural treasures and the UCLA scientists working to save them
    UCLA Newsroom - August 9, 2016

  • Year of airport screening doesn't catch Ebola
    USA Today - September 22, 2015

  • Study: Airport Screenings Catch Less Than Half of Infected Passengers
    Reason - March 17, 2015

  • Warum manche Menschen Superverbreiter sind [Why some people are superspreaders]
    Die Welt - March 10, 2015

  • Airport Screenings Miss Roughly Half of Sick Travelers: Study
    US News and World Report - February 27, 2015

  • Super-spreaders epidemic model
    Proto: Dispatches from the frontiers of medicine - January 15, 2014

  • Flu infections rising among pigs in southern China, says study
    South China Morning Post - May 8, 2013

  • As China bird flu death toll at 31, infections among pigs also rising
    International Business Times - May 8, 2013

  • SARS News Focus: Understanding the enemy
    Science - March 15, 2013

  • SARS News Focus: The Metropole, superspreaders, and other mysteries
    Science - March 15, 2013

  • Could monkeypox take over where smallpox left off?
    Scientific American - March 4, 2013

  • Defective virus leads to epidemic of dengue fever
    NSF Discovery series - March 1, 2013 (featured on the NSF homepage, www.nsf.gov)

  • Modern-day Typhoid Marys: Superspreaders can turn a minor outbreak into a pandemic
    Slate - December 27, 2012

  • Researchers test California sea lions for kidney disease
    Daily Astorian - May 3, 2012

  • Piggyback virus could curb HIV pandemic
    Wired Science - March 21, 2011

  • A way to fight the AIDS virus with a virus
    Discovery News - March 24, 2011

  • The new plague [in Danish]
    Illustreret Videnskab - Nov, 2010

  • Emerging infections: No good deed goes unpunished - Smallpox has gone, but monkeypox is now rearing its ugly head
    The Economist - September 2, 2010

  • Africa: Monkeypox Cases Surge in Rural Areas as Price of the Victory Over Smallpox
    The New York Times - August 30, 2010

  • Pox Swap: 30 Years After the End of Smallpox, Monkeypox Cases Are on the Rise
    Scientific American - August 31, 2010

  • Monkeypox emerges in Africa in the wake of smallpox
    Nature - August 30, 2010

  • Dramatic rise in monkeypox
    The Scientist - August 31, 2010

  • Monkeypox rising in wake of smallpox eradication
    Reuters - August 31, 2010

  • Stopping smallpox vaccinations has cleared the way for the emergence of monkeypox in Africa
    Los Angeles Times - August 30, 2010

  • Goodbye smallpox vaccination, hello monkeypox
    Discover Magazine - August 31, 2010

  • Circumcision makes economic sense in fight against HIV
    Nature News - August 5, 2008

  • Circumcision May Prevent HIV Spread in Africa
    ABC News - July 11, 2006

  • Report: Circumcision may prevent HIV
    CBS News - July 11, 2006

  • Circumcision 'could cut HIV risk?
    BBC News - July 10, 2006

  • Outbreaks hinge on superspreaders
    Breakthroughs Magazine - Spring, 2006

  • Study Assesses Impact of "Superspreaders" of Disease
    Scientific American - November 17, 2005

  • Could sneeze meters combat pandemics?
    Nature News - November 18, 2005

  • Superspreader machen Krankheit zur Epidemie
    Der Spiegel - November 19, 2005

  • Prevention is indeed better than cure
    The Hindu - August 1, 2003

  • Nature Podcast
    Nature - November 17, 2005

  • Study Suggests Hygiene Important in Controlling SARS [Audio Interview]
    Voice of America - August 18, 2003