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92% of Australians don't know the difference between viral and bacterial infections

  • Written by Paul De Barro, Senior Principal Research Scientist, Ecosystem Sciences, CSIRO

We are four months into a global virus outbreak, and public health awareness could well be at an all-time high. Which is why it is astonishing to discover that 92% of Australians don’t know the difference between a viral infection and a bacterial one.

The statistic comes from a survey carried out by CSIRO in March to inform our work on the OUT...

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