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Today is World Polio Day According to World Health Organization: ‘Thanks to two safe, effective vaccines, cases of polio have fallen by 99% since the 1980s. Find out why both vaccines have a role to play to end polio for every child, everywhere. Vaccines Work!’ https://www.facebook.com/154163327962392/posts/2052393804805992/

HIV Next Gen 2018 is a WRAP!  Looking back on a super exciting 3 day event, with great speakers, theatre and above all beautiful, inspiring participants from all corners of the world!  Thank you all! HIV Next Gen is related to the international AIDS conference AIDS 2018. www.hiv-next-gen.com www.viruskenner.nl www.aidsfonds.nl www.aids2018.org

SEE YOU THERE ?️   YEAH! Tomorrow we will kick off: HIV Next Gen! Looking forward to an exciting 3 day event in Hotel Casa Amsterdam with inspring talks of beautiful change makers, cool activities in Amsterdam and meeting everyone who signed up from all corners of the world!

This month, at April 16, the Viruskenner final day at high school SMA 16 in Surabaya was organised by the international Viruskenner team.  Around 300 Indonesian students learned how viruses spread and may lead to infection and disease, shared knowledge with each other and devised ways to disseminate that knowledge. [...]

A true virus-fighter thinks outside the box   When you start a new job you always meet new people, that is where I met Samantha Grimley, a Postdoctoral researcher at the Peter Doherty Institute in Melbourne. Samantha studies the HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. I asked her if she [...]

Olympic officials are scrambling to contain an outbreak of the norovirus that has sickened dozens of security guards days ahead of the official kickoff of the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Games. Around 1,200 security staff members have been kept in their rooms while they wait to be tested for the highly [...]

Viruskenner kicked off at primary and secondary schools in Suriname! After the kick-off of the 64 schools in The Netherlands and the start this week at SMA Negeri in Indonesia, it was time for the start of Viruskenner in Suriname. Coaches Prof. Eric, Roos and Valéry gave information about the [...]

Kick-off Viruskenner Viruskenner Indonesia kicked off this week at SMA Negeri 16 in Surabaya! 300 enthusiastic students, their teachers, doctors of RSUD Dr. Soetomo and 3 Viruskenner coaches from Erasmus Medical Centre Rotterdam, The Netherlands where there! Viruskenner in the newspapers The newspapers Bhirawa Paper and Jawa Pos publicated articles [...]

Why Viruskenner? Infectious diseases, old and new, can suddenly appear and cause an outbreak (epidemic or pandemic). Important examples are Ebola, Chikungunya, Zika and Yellow fever virus. Unfortunately, we do not yet have treatment for most new virus infections and developing a vaccine takes time. The slogan 'prevention is better [...]

Yesterday was the day all students of SMA16 and the Viruskenner-Team looked so much forward to: the day that the Kick-Off of Viruskenner 2017 finally took place in Surabaya, Indonesia with all classes from X-MIA- classes. But not only the students and Viruskenner-team were there, many of the teachers and [...]

Are you wondering what the Viruskenner team of the Viroscience department in the Erasmus Medical Center does more, except organising Viruskenner? The Erasmus Magazine had an interview with Professor van Gorp. Read his story here!