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December 1, 2025: Current infectious disease outbreaks

Marburg virus disease – Ethiopia (first recorded national outbreak) Marburg is a filovirus causing severe hemorrhagic fever with high case fatality; Ethiopia’s first outbreak in South Ethiopia Region has led to multiple...

3 December, 2025

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Longitudinal trends in the endemic symptomatic burden of COVID-19: Insights from community-based participatory virological surveillance in the Netherlands, November 2020 – April 2025

This article presents a large-scale, longitudinal analysis of symptom patterns and the perceived disease burden of COVID-19 in the Netherlands, covering a 4.5-year period from November 2020 to April 2025. Using data...

3 December, 2025

4 min read

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On the way back: New US vaccines and vaccination policy

Health Secretary Kennedy’s new policy direction on vaccines centers on undermining CDC assurances about vaccine safety (especially regarding autism and aluminum adjuvants) and on opening the door to schedule changes...

3 December, 2025

4 min read

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Vaccine types

Download Infographic Overview Vaccines are biological preparations, often made from attenuated or killed forms of microorganisms or fractions thereof. They work by stimulating the immune system to produce antibodies and...

27 November, 2025

1 min read

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The art of ending – how to best eradicate polio

As one of the most prominent expert on polio, Jacob John and his colleagues write, vaccine safety is usually defined as the absence of serious adverse events in the vaccine recipient, yet the continued use of oral...

26 November, 2025

2 min read

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Update on Lyme diseases vaccine

The first modern Lyme vaccine, LYMErix, was an OspA-based recombinant subunit vaccine that showed good efficacy and acceptable safety in phase III trials but ultimately failed due to a confluence of scientific...

26 November, 2025

9 min read

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The American CDC on vaccines and autism

For many years, the CDC’s vaccine-safety pages stated clearly that vaccines do not cause autism and used that phrase as a concise summary of a large evidence base. The earlier material explained that multiple large...

26 November, 2025

6 min read

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Kyasanur Forest Disease review and vaccine prevention

Kyasanur Forest Disease (KFD) is a neglected, tick‑borne viral haemorrhagic fever of the Western Ghats (India) that has expanded geographically since its first recognition in 1957 in Shimoga district, Karnataka. The KFD...

26 November, 2025

6 min read

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Ethical aspects of vaccination

Download Infographic Overview Vaccinations are among the most effective and cost-effective means to reduce the burden of serious infectious diseases. As vaccination rates remain too low to realize the full potential to...

20 November, 2025

1 min read

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The erosion of harm reduction

Summary This perspective explores the unprecedented political and administrative attack on harm reduction in the United States during 2025. Defined not by bureaucracy but by a set of evidence-based practices and...

19 November, 2025

3 min read