This is how you've evolved to fight the bugs that make you ill
It’s the ability of our immune system to remember past infections and pass this memory on to our kids, that allows us to survive infectious diseases.
Simon Reid is an epidemiologist with an interest in research to improve the detection and control of infectious diseases with a particular emphasis on zoonotic diseases such as leptospirosis and influenza.
It’s the ability of our immune system to remember past infections and pass this memory on to our kids, that allows us to survive infectious diseases.
By changing where and how we live, new diseases evolve as human societies do.