Have we learnt anything from our past experience of infectious disease?

For well over a century, pandemics and epidemics produced fear and havoc in Australia – becoming recognised as one of the most severe of all threats facing the country. Today, Covid is still in Australia, so too is Influenza, Dengue, Ross River Fever, Barmah Forest Virus, Q Fever, and Leptospirosis, as well as a host of childhood infectious disease agents such as Chickenpox, Measles, Rubella, and Bronchitis.