'Deeply worrying': 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...