The Paris city council has set up a special campaign. The inhabitants have to go on a rat hunt. Literally. Among other things, they are obliged to use rat poison and set rat traps. If they refuse, they can get…
Natural measles infection whips-out your immunological memory
A four-fold increase in number of measles cases was reported in Europe in 2017 and was largely due to people refusing to be vaccinated (https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.k795). Measles symptoms include runny nose, cough, high fever,…
A new year, a new edition
Knowledge as an antidote
This year around 1500 students in Suriname, Indonesia, Italy and the Netherlands will participate in and join the Viruskenner community.
November 13, 2018 was the kick off of the Dutch…
A very special, inspirational, fun occasion
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The recent Ebola outbreak asks for creative solutions
As a virus-fighter I follow the news about the recent Ebola outbreak in Congo with special interest, since I was involved in training specialized research teams to fight the previous Ebola…
Hi virus-fighters!
My name is Carolien van de Sandt, a researcher from the Viroscience department of the ErasmusMC and a Planet Virus coach for the last couple of years. This year I will start a new adventure in Melbourne (Australia)…
“Sickness comes on horseback, but departs on foot” is an old Dutch saying what is so true for neurological infectious diseases. Most of the times you are healthy one day and you have a life treathening illness the next day.…
For this blog, I would like to continue on the topic that Wesley de Jong started in his last blog on the 30th of April ‘Medical doctors become sick as well’ and would like to add that apparently even veterinarians…
Last weeks were quite turbulent. After a great start of the Viruskenner project 2015 in the Erasmus Medical Center, I first flew to Surabaya, in Indonesië, to start the project over there as well. Back from Surabaya I flew almost…
I must say, I’m a happy person: I’m able to combine one of my hobbies with some of my daily work; travel to distant countries and being coach of Viruskenner Surabaya, Indonesia. As you might have read on our website,…
