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Teaching computers to read coroner’s reports
By Kae Jansen van Vuuren There is nothing more arduous than manual data entry, but it is unfortunately a key process in death classifications and recording overdose deaths. Across the world, there is a rising rate of drug-related deaths, which need swift and accurate surveillance to inform public health decisions, but overdose data is buried…
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The Rise of a Rare Killer Fungus: Emergomyces africanus
By Bailey Kelly In 2013, researchers set out to identify and characterise the cause of the systemic infections found in HIV-infected people in South Africa. They discovered that the infections were caused by a novel fungal species, later named Emergomyces africanus (E. africanus). Its DNA was found in 30% of soil samples tested in the…
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Reflection on My Honours Year (So Far)
By Tony Noveld This year has been a bit like learning to breathe underwater — familiar, yet entirely new. Coming from the relentless pace of the MBChB program into the world of honours-level research in Infectious Diseases & Immunology felt like stepping into a parallel universe where the rules weren’t always clear, the path wasn’t…