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Separating fact from fear in the rise of Zika
Spectrum, Chaiyot Yongcharoenchai, Published on 07/02/2016
» A flat, red rash is one of the Zika virus’ first obvious symptoms. But for many people, it simply won’t show.
On the front line against Ebola
Spectrum, Published on 15/03/2015
» It was about a month after arriving at the Ebola treatment units in a remote corner of Liberia when Bangkok resident Erik Fleischman felt the early stages of fever. Thoughts of the previous weeks flashed through his mind; of patients writhing in agony as they lay dying in pools of their own vomit and excrement, of the intense heat inside the crowded, non-airconditioned tents which acted as makeshift hospital wards.