The Big Picture – Epidemics
September’s issue of the Wellcome Trust Big Picture series is all about epidemics, past and present:
- Weighing up the risks: How should individuals and governments respond to the possibility of new outbreaks?
- Case study: SARS: Tackling a newly emerging infectious disease requires global surveillance and a global response plan.
- Death on the doorstep: The Black Death was the most severe pandemic ever recorded.
- Outbreak! What would happen if a new infection emerged in the UK? You decide.
The Big Picture series provides teachers and post-16 students with up-to-date information on research findings in biomedicine, and the social and ethical implications of this research.
