• Question: whta is th emost infectious disease your company have found?

    Asked by anon-230774 to Haafizah, Clio, Tom, Steven, Jessica, Bruno Silvester on 12 Nov 2019. This question was also asked by anon-230938.
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      Clio Andreae answered on 12 Nov 2019:

      My company hasn’t found any bad infectious diseases. I have worked on several bad bacteria, with the most dangerous being Burkholderia pseudomallei (bioterrorism agent and top 3 killer in Thailand) and Neisseria meningitidis which causes meningitis.

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      Haafizah Hoosen answered on 13 Nov 2019: last edited 13 Nov 2019 2:57 pm

      We haven’t found any new infectious diseases – the research I do for my PhD involves investigating lots of parasites, like microsporidia, that cause infections that have stomach bug – like symptoms like vomiting, fever, diarrhoea etc.

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      Bruno Silvester Lopes answered on 21 Nov 2019:

      We have not discovered a disease yet…but we find treatment/solutions for existing diseases and how we can stop the formation of any future diseases by our current work.

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