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Virology studies viruses and how they spread. You will learn virus structure and replication, immunity and vaccines, epidemiology of outbreaks and the history of pandemics.

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🎓Courses(3)

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Physics of COVID-19 Transmission (MIT RES.10-S95)

Lightboard lectures on the physics of indoor airborne disease spread: how occupancy, exposure time, room geometry, ventilation, filtration, humidity, masks and respiratory activity interact. 49 short videos let learners estimate transmission risk and apply a quantitative indoor safety guideline.

intermediate🇬🇧
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Epidemics - the Dynamics of Infectious Diseases

Introductory Penn State course on how infectious diseases spread through populations and how outbreaks are controlled. Modules cover pathogens and R0, immunity, disease ecology, superspreading and surveillance, vaccination and herd immunity, eradication, drug resistance and emerging diseases.

beginner🇬🇧
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Virology Lectures 2025 (Columbia University, Vincent Racaniello)

A free, full university-level virology course from the field's best-known educator: twenty-five recorded lectures from Columbia's undergraduate virology course. They cover virus structure, genomes, replication, assembly, pathogenesis, immune responses, vaccines, antivirals, viral evolution and emergence, ending with lectures comparing historical and modern pandemics.

intermediate🇬🇧

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Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

Reported account of zoonotic disease: how viruses such as Hendra, Ebola, SARS, Nipah and HIV jump from animal reservoirs into humans. It follows field researchers and lab scientists and explains the ecology and evolution that drive new outbreaks. It covers how pandemics start (zoonotic emergence), which the other picks touch only briefly. It is narrative journalism rather than a primary source, worth keeping in mind.

beginner🇬🇧
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The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History

History of the 1918 influenza pandemic. It traces the rise of American scientific medicine, the virus's spread through wartime military camps and cities, the public health and political failures that worsened it, and the researchers who tried to identify its cause. It is the standard account of the most important pandemic in modern history, written long before COVID, so it carries no pandemic-era bias.

beginner🇬🇧
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Principles of Virology (5th Edition, 2-volume set)

Standard university virology textbook in two volumes. Volume I covers molecular biology: virus structure, genome replication, gene expression and assembly. Volume II covers pathogenesis and control: immune responses, vaccines, antivirals, viral evolution, emergence and public health.

advanced🇬🇧
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