A vaccine against pneumococcal disease, which is a major killer of children in Africa, has cut the disease rate by more than half, new research has found. The study, involving Otago researcher Professor Philip Hill...
Three new reports, including a population study in Africa and two meta-analyses, suggest that pneumococcal vaccines provide moderate protection against invasive pneumococcal pneumonia in children and adults but only...
Until recently, border security and immigration control were seen as two of the best frontline defenses against not just terrorism, but also threats to global health security such as infectious disease. But in today’s...
New research recently published in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases shows that the new MenB vaccine Bexsero (routinely offered to UK infants since September 2015) should provide additional protection against a...
A virologist at the Bernhard-Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine in Hamburg, Germany, has suggested that Zika virus infection is the only vector-borne disease that may be transmitted by sexual intercourse. The first...
Researchers are testing the potency of a vaccine to destroy “toxic tangles”, which are a hallmark of the disease. Trials involving patients with early stages of the incurable condition are already under way. If...
Vaccination against influenza was associated with a significantly reduced risk for influenza pneumonia requiring hospitalization among both children and adults, according to the results of a study published in JAMA...
New infections are on the rise among some groups of adolescents in the Asia-Pacific region and globally, reveals a report released by UNICEF. The report titled ‘Adolescents: Under the radar in the Asia-Pacific...
Two Kansas State University researchers are exploring how diseases spread across long distances in an effort to learn how to better control the next human, animal or plant epidemic. Caterina Scoglio, professor of...
The tick-borne Lyme disease, also known as Lyme borreliosis, continues to be one of the most problematic infections in the United States, ranking fifth in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC)...