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    • Professor Stuart Ralph

    Parasitologist, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne.

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    Parasites may be gross, but so is Australia’s attitude to Indigenous health

    While a roundworm in a human brain gets the headlines, the impact of preventable parasites and infectious diseases for some Indigenous and remote communities is a national shame

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    Why are there so few drugs to treat viruses?

    As coronavirus case numbers surge, University of Melbourne experts explain why we have effective drugs for bacterial diseases, but relatively few for combating viruses

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    Q&A: How could COVID-19 drugs work and what’s out there?

    Finding existing drugs that are effective against COVID-19 is our best bet toward treatments, and the US buy-up of Remdesivir supplies highlights how urgent the race is

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