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Nigel French
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Professor of Infectious Disease Epi and Public Health, School of Vet Science, Massey University, Aotearoa NZ
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Watchdog warns of ‘grave danger’ if science reform botched
The Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment thought the Government could hamstring NZ's research capability by ignoring the advice it commissioned.
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May 9, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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New paper highlighting ethnic (in)equity Aotearoa New Zealand’s Covid-19 response apc01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
ScienceDirect.com | Science, health and medical journals, full text articles and books.
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May 9, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Rookie mistake - there was no link in the thread to preorder the book! www.bwb.co.nz/books/the-co...
April 10, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Second farm being probed over bird flu outbreak
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Second farm being probed over bird flu outbreak
A small free-range poultry farm is being tested for the flu after a number of hens died, officials say.
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December 4, 2024 at 12:37 AM
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The report from the NZ Covid inquiry was (somewhat surprisingly!) released today:
www.covid19lessons.royalcommission.nz/reports-less...

Here's some initial reaction from me (which should appear at www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz in due course):
Royal Commission of Inquiry into COVID-19 Lessons Learned | Covid-19 Lessons Learned
www.covid19lessons.royalcommission.nz
November 28, 2024 at 3:25 AM
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Our latest preprint, this time on a kākāpō disease known as crusty butt www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Evidence for a role of extraintestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli, Enterococcus faecalis and Streptococcus gallolyticus in the aetiology of exudative cloacitis in the critically endangered kākāpō (St...
The kakapo is a critically endangered flightless parrot which suffers from exudative cloacitis, a debilitating disease resulting in inflammation of the vent margin or cloaca. Despite this disease emer...
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November 8, 2024 at 7:05 AM
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RSV was eliminated in New Zealand in 2020 but made quite the come back. Our latest paper out today www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Spatial and temporal transmission dynamics of respiratory syncytial virus in New Zealand before and after the COVID-19 pandemic - Nature Communications
Non-pharmaceutical interventions for COVID-19 control impacted transmission of other pathogens including respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). Here, the authors perform phylodynamic analyses of RSV genom...
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November 11, 2024 at 7:07 PM