Sine Flu Outbreak, Infectious And The Science Gallery
Posted on April 29th, 2009 in Irish Science
In light of the recent outbreak in Mexico, the Science Gallery are hosting a special event where members of the public can ask experts about the outbreak and question whether Ireland is ready if it spreads to our shores. Full event details are below:
Thursday 30:04:09 at 12 in Science Gallery Café
RAPID RESPONSE: the science behind the Swine Flu outbreak – Ask the experts
Professor Luke O’Neill, Professor Kingston Mills and other experts will be available for a briefing on the current Swine Flu epidemic outbreak. Some of the questions that will be considered include: What is the state of readiness in Ireland? Why is this flu-strain affecting young, healthy people? What precautions can be taken to limit the outbreaks of pandemics?
There will be ongoing live updates regarding the spread of the pandemic (including a projection of a Google mash-up map tracking the news about the outbreak), digital simulations and information sheets will be available at the Science Gallery as part of the INFECTIOUS exhibition which explores mechanisms of transmission of infectious diseases.
If you haven’t made it down to the INFECTIOUS exhibition already, be sure to check out some of the videos on YouTube, which we’ve also posted below.
CYBERNETIC BACTERIA 2. 0 by Anna Dumitriu, Dr. Simon Park, Dr. Blay Whitby, Tom Keene & Lorenzo Grespan, at the INFECTIOUS exhibition at Science Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin
STIGMATISED by Karl Grimes, at the INFECTIOUS exhibition at Science Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin
SOCIOPATTERNS by Ciro Cattuto & Wouter Van den Broeck, in collaboration with Alain Barrat, Jean-Francois Pinton, Vittoria Colizzaat & Alessandro Vespignani, at the INFECTIOUS exhibition at the Science Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin
HORDE by David Bickley, Tom Green & Dr. John Mac Sharry, at the INFECTIOUS exhibition at Science Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin
FUGUE by Gordana Novakovic, at the INFECTIOUS exhibition at Science Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin
EPIDEMIC PLANET by Vittoria Colizza, Wouter Van den Broeck, D. Balcan, B. Goncalves, H. Hu, J.J. Ramasco and A. Vespignani, at the INFECTIOUS exhibition at Science Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin
April 29th, 2009 at 3:58 pm
“The Science Gallery have benefited from the timing of the Swine Flu outbreak as their INFECTIOUS exhibition is more relevant than ever”
Yes, the infections exibition is certainly relevant at this time. However you should warrant caution in describing it as a benefitt. A ‘benefit’ which has been aquired from the deaths of nearly 200 people, which includes a two year old child.
Yes it’s a science blog, but does it need to be so clinical? Its writing like this that gives science a bad name.
May 1st, 2009 at 11:14 am
Fair point Frank, we’ll amend the post