Ticks are annoying bloodsuckers that, like mosquitoes, can transmit diseases to humans. As part of our series of glossaries on infectious diseases, we have compiled a German-English glossary of tick-borne diseases.
There is currently an outbreak of dengue in Singapore, where Imke, one of our writers, recently spotted this poster. In this latest article in our series on infectious diseases, we have put together a German-English glossary of terms relating to dengue.
The annual flu season usually reaches its peak in Europe in late winter. As part of our series on infectious diseases, we have put together a German-English glossary of influenza terms.
Zika virus is expected to infect between three and four million people in 2016. Here is a German-English glossary of terms relating to Zika, a global public health emergency described as “a pandemic in progress”.
