Expert Request – Friday 28 February

If you are interested in writing an article for a request below, please email the contact listed in the request to find out more. Please note, article requests are fulfilled on a first-come, fir5jst-served basis. You can pitch an article directly to The Conversation via the detail listed here.

1. Health + Medicine: What do we know about the disease that has so far killed 50 peoplein the Congo? It apparently erupted after children ate a bat, but tests have been negative for Ebola and Marburg viruses.

Timescale: ASAP | Contact: Clint Witchalls

2. Health + Medicine: Americans born before 1968 are advised to get a measles vaccine booster as they may have been vaccinated with an inactivated virus rather than the attenuated virus. Is it the same in the UK? Were people born before 1968 also vaccinated with the inactivated measles virus? We’re looking for an immunologist to comment.

Timescale: early next week | Contact: Clint Witchalls

Online Harassment Workshop Reminder

We are running a workshop for authors on dealing with online harassment on March 19, 2.30pm-4.30pm. Led by Victoria O’Meara from the University of Leicester and Jaigris Hodson from Royal Road University in Canada, The Conversation’s online harassment workshop will teach authors strategies to deal with abuse, learn from others about building better support networks with colleagues and employers, and help authors develop more confidence in the digital space. The session is open to academics who have published or are thinking about publishing on The Conversation UK. Interested academics can sign up here.