A new agreement between the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the Colombian government opens opportunities for research and bilateral exchanges for students and researchers, says Jorge Osorio, the new director of the UW–Madison Global Health Institute and professor of Pathobiological Sciences in the School of Veterinary Medicine. Opportunities to develop and produce new vaccines for Colombia. …
Tony Goldberg, a member of the GHI Advisory Committee, knows that most human diseases, like COVID-19, don’t start — or end — with our species. These diseases are really a part of our whole ecosystem, and that includes the animals we interact with.
GHi Advisory Committee member Susan Paskewitz has watched the advance of ticks in Wisconsin.
The drugs behind the new pills to treat COVID-19 remain very effective against the omicron variant of the virus in lab tests, according to a new study. However, lab tests also showed that the available antibody therapies — typically given intravenously in hospitals — are substantially less effective against omicron than against earlier variants of …
GHI Advisory Committee Member Ajay Sethi discusses research on new variant, importance of patience and more.
GHI Advisory Committee Member Tony Goldberg discusses ongoing research into deer as a reservoir for the SARS-CoV-2 virus and more.
To many of us, flying into Liberia at the height of the Ebola epidemic would spell only danger. For Dr. Hannah Kirking, a Badger twice over and an epidemic intelligence service officer with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a month among villagers in Grand Cape Mount County was a chance to embody the …
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