Viruses

Viruses! You can’t see them when they spread, they can travel via a sneeze or a cough and they can linger on surfaces. So how do we fight them?

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With the current outbreak in Auckland experts say testing is key to keeping the spread of COVID-19 contained. It's also been emphasised that genome testing will help understand how long the virus has… Audio

Widely blamed for being a disease vector in the spread of the novel coronavirus, bats have a bit of a PR problem at the moment. It's resulted in overzealous individuals burning their colonies, and… Audio

In the wake of the coronavirus out of Wuhan, China, Edinburgh-based GP and writer Dr. Gavin Francis insists we are getting better and better at controlling these things, but he is adamant there will… Audio

11:45 Octopus farm, bacteria-busting viruses and old bedbugs

Science commentator Siouxsie Wiles looks at why researchers believe we shouldn't farm octopuses, how a 15-year-old cystic fibrosis patient… Audio

It's one hundred years since the Spanish flu pandemic killed between 50 - 100 million people, but are we any more prepared for the next inevitable outbreak of influenza? Dr Jeremy Brown looks the… Audio

The arms race between the immune systems of bacteria and the viruses - bacteriophages - that attack them, was a feature of this year's Queenstown Research Week. Audio

Tom Moore of Aura information security explains what the future of viruses is likely to look like and how our lives could be impacted. Audio

A new study by the University of Cambridge has found that viruses could be 10 times more successful, when they infect people in the morning. And the authors say the findings could lead to new ways of… Audio