Welcome to ID Transmission!

Cast your minds back three years. Many countries were beginning to implement COVID-19 lockdowns and you may have found yourself confined to your home. Around the same time you were becoming an unexpected expert in video teleconferencing software and baking banana bread, a weekly newsletter called The COVID-19 Curator was born, bringing the world weekly roundups of the emerging science behind the disease.

Although Disease X – an unknown pathogen with future pandemic potential – was coined by the World Health Organization back in 2018, it was COVID-19 that threw a spotlight on infectious diseases that’s unlikely to dim anytime soon. As COVID-19 knowledge increased and rapid vaccine roll out impressed us all, we broadened the newsletter’s horizons. The Infectious Disease Curator has served as an outlet for the latest research and news across the ID space, while building a wonderful community of people from across the field. Thanks to continuous positive feedback and support (and, more selfishly, our own thirst for more ID knowledge and content), we’ve been working hard behind the scenes for the past few months to transcend our humble beginnings.

Like the Curators that went before it, ID Transmission charts and explores humanity’s ongoing battle with infectious diseases – from our efforts to stop emerging diseases in their tracks to exciting discoveries and innovations. We are committed to bringing you the latest hot topics and news, while covering hard-hitting and thorny subjects – with plenty of interviews with the great and the good of the ID community. Our ambitious  goal? To become a hub for everyone involved in tackling infectious diseases – no matter where or how you work with (or against!) them.

So whether you’re here as an original subscriber of The Infectious Disease Curator (or even The COVID-19 Curator), a reader of our sister brand The Pathologist, or an ID professional who has simply stumbled across us, welcome!

We already have a plethora of interviews, hot takes, and articles for you to sink your teeth into – and there are plenty more in the pipeline. If you just can’t get enough of us here, please follow us on Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Facebook – and, if you have an article you would like to contribute or suggest (or if you just want to chat about infectious disease), get in touch! My inbox is always open – I’d love to hear about what you’re up to in this fascinating speciality.

Liv Gaskill, Editor