• AVIAN INFLUENZA:
    DO WE NEED TO WORRY ABOUT THE LATEST BIRD FLU OUTBREAKS?

    By: Yan Mardian An 11-year-old girl has died of bird flu in Cambodia, south-east Asia, and multiple others who live in her area have been sickened, including her father, according to media reports, marking the first known H5N1 human infections in the country since 2014—and potentially setting the stage for sustained human-to-human transmission. The cases

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  • JUNIOR INVESTIGATOR WORKSHOP REPORT

    By: Adhella Menur and Retna Mustika Indah On February 5-10, 2023, Adhella Menur, a member of the INA-RESPOND Scientific Team, participated in a two-and-a-half-day grantsmanship workshop and the 12th RePORT India annual meeting in India. The workshop was hosted by CRDF Global in collaboration with the Division of AIDS, NIAID, NIH, to train young investigators

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  • “THE POWER OF NATURE:
    THE SURPRISING BENEFITS OF LIVING IN A GREEN ENVIRONMENT”

    Disclaimer: I am not an AI fanatic. I am just having fun while the free version of ChatGPT is still accessible; so I can make an “evidence-based decision” once the free access is no longer available. The following article was written by the “AI”; without any revisions. I will provide a brief explanation of the

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  • PREDATORY JOURNALS:
    HOW TO DEFINE AND HOW TO AVOID THEM

    By: Yan Mardian Recently, scientists and academia in Indonesia were made concerned by the release of snippets of presentation slides issued by several internal researchers from the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN). Although no official letter has been released yet to date, the widely spread snippets slides informed that “in 2023, starting in January,

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