The World Health Organisation (WHO) is encouraging mothers to continue taking the tetanus vaccine which it says is safe, contrary to claims made by the Catholic Church. WHO Director of Reproductive Health and Research...
Queensland University of Technology (QUT) researchers have found the habit of Googling for an online diagnosis before visiting the doctor can be a powerful predictor of infectious diseases outbreaks. Now studies by the...
The first Ebola vaccination trial in Mali is looking bright as volunteers have responded positively to the vaccines, an infectologist in Mali said Thursday. “We know that after two weeks they’re starting to...
The (WFP) said the Ebola crisis response “needs to scale up, get better and perform faster,” as the UN health agency reported that if judged safe, larger scale trials of an experimental vaccine could be taken to hard...
In the absence of credible, strong political leadership, paranoia about disease can go viral. We’ve seen this happen around the world with a wide range of illnesses, from swine flu to SARS to Ebola. And even after...
No vaccines or drugs are available yet to protect people worldwide against Ebola virus disease, but two potential vaccines are in human safety testing, and scientists at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of...
Influenza vaccination appears to confer protection against influenza infection regardless of a patient’s vaccination history, according to recent findings. The vaccine appears to offer the greatest protection, however...
Vaccine/adjuvant combination against a leading cause of bacterial diarrhea shows great promise for saving children’s lives New results from a safety and immunogenicity study, which included a challenge phase to...
Ebola underlines the urgent need for a new way of responding to global epidemics In our hyper-connected world, we can no longer dismiss certain threats as being “over there”. Local phenomena can have global...
Researchers at Cambridge University have effectively ‘barcoded’ the bacteria so that they can see where in the body they go and how they fare against the immune system. Vaccines against Salmonella that use a live, but...