As a mum of three, I know just how dirty a family car can get. My children are grown up now but I remember long car journeys from where we lived in St Albans all the way to Cornwall on holiday. It was the usual happy chaos, with the kids fighting for legroom, the dog […]
Will our Indian summer make the flu season any worse? In my opinion, yes, but not for the reasons you might think. The flu virus is not more likely to thrive as balmy September makes way for mild, if wet, October. Unlike bacteria, which do proliferate in warmer temperatures, viruses are less affected by the […]
Zika, which has been linked to a huge increase in the number of babies born with small heads in Brazil, may be the scariest virus around just now, but it’s actually going to be much easier to tackle and eradicate than flu, which has managed to evade our best attempts to wipe it out for decades. Every […]
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