Paul Hunter

Chikungunya: what UK travellers should know about this mosquito-borne virus Chikungunya is a viral infection spread by the Aedes mosquito.

My latest article. This one on the increased number of cases of chikungunya virus infections in travellers returning to the UK theconversation.com/chikungunya-...

Did COVID-19 surveillance system sensitivity change after Omicron? a retrospective observational study in England - BMC Infectious Diseases Background During the COVID-19 pandemic in England, increases and falls in COVID-19 cases were monitored using many surveillance systems (SS). However, surveillance sensitivity may have changed as dif...

Our latest paper on sensitivity of surveillance systems for covid after the emergence of omicron. bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Birmingham bin strikes: a threat to public health Garbage continues to pile up on the streets of Birmingham. An expert in communicable disease explains the risks.

My latest article: Birmingham bin strikes: a threat to public health theconversation.com/birmingham-b...

Whist there was mostly good correlation between waste water samples and known cases, this was not always the case. There was variation in the ratio between the concentration of virus in samples and case numbers so counts were not a good predictor of case numbers.

Localised wastewater SARS-CoV-2 levels linked to COVID-19 cases: A long-term multisite study in England Wastewater-based surveillance (WBS) can monitor for the presence of human health pathogens in the population. During COVID-19, WBS was widely used to …

Our latest peer-reviewed article on the relationship between SARS-CoV-2 in waste water and infections in the community. Our analysis included data from over 94,000 samples from 259 Sewage Treatment Works and 193 Sewer Network Sites.

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My university has published an article about my latest project www.uea.ac.uk/health/resha...