Tagged: infectious

It’s “only” a 1% death rate - BioBlog

Alison Campbell • Aug 31, 2020 •

• coronavirus,
• COVID-19,
• infectious,
• Pandemic

I’m seeing a bit of that phrase in my social media feeds at the moment, in relation to covid-19. In practice, this would mean that if everyone in New Zealand were to catch the virus eventually, that would be 50,000 people dead.  The ‘normal’ annual all-cause mortality in this country is around 33,000. It’s been argued that we just … Read More

Does running a marathon increase your risk of infections? - Guest Work

Guest Author • Apr 23, 2018 •

• common cold,
• exercise,
• Health,
• illness,
• immune system,
• immunoglobin,
• infection,
• infectious,
• lungs,
• marathon,
• water bottles

James Turner, University of Bath and John P Campbell, University of Bath This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. It is commonly believed that some forms of exercise, such as endurance events, suppress your immune system and leave you at risk of infections, like the common cold. However, our … Read More