China has not been using the kind of COVID-19 vaccine that has proven to offer the best protection against the virus. The country is working through its biggest coronavirus outbreak yet without a tool it could have...
Following a 70-year effort, China has been awarded a malaria-free certification from WHO – a notable feat for a country that reported 30 million cases of the disease annually in the 1940s. “Today we congratulate the...
With SARS and MERS, and now COVID-19, infectious diseases have been running rampant since the turn of this century. However, if we look into the past, it could be said that infectious diseases have been a constant...
China included COVID-19 statistics in a newly published national statutory infectious diseases report, listing the new coronavirus as the second-highest deadly infectious disease after HIV/AIDS among category B...
With China projected to have at least three viable COVID-19 vaccines available to the public, China’s airports are likely to see international cargo flights flood in to pick up COVID-19 vaccines in mid-2021...
China’s speedy COVID-19 vaccine development is the result of drawing inspiration from past public health challenges, rapid but meticulous mobilization of talent and resources and rigorously upholding strict...
The Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that researchers had isolated viruses and were selecting a strain, according to Xu Wenbo, a director of CDC’s virus institute. Xu told reporters at a...
A new strain of the H1N1 swine flu virus with the potential to “transmit efficiently in humans” and cause a pandemic has been discovered in China. Scientists isolated 139 H1N1 swine flu viruses in pigs in...
China takes seriously the prevention and control of emerging infectious diseases and has played an active role in global emergency response to such health threats, visiting Chinese Vice Premier Liu Yandong said here...
A vaccine licensed in China protected healthy adults against hepatitis E virus infection for up to 4.5 years, according to newly published data. “Vaccine development has been facilitated by the observation that all...