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Global novel disease surveillance: Majority of countries lack preparedness

In a recent study posted to the Preprints with The Lancet / SSRN´s First Look* preprint server, researchers explored national surveillance for new diseases in different countries. Novel pathogen-induced pandemics have...

18 April, 2023

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Chatbot systems using AI may feasibly provide access to information on infectious diseases

A recent study found that chatbot systems that used artificial intelligence (AI) could be valuable in providing access to current, accurate, and complete information about infectious diseases and vaccines against them...

22 March, 2023

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The race to an RSV vaccine could soon be over, decades after the first attempt

Roughly six decades after the first attempt to develop a vaccine for respiratory syncytial virus, the Food and Drug Administration is poised to approve several shots by next winter. No RSV vaccine has ever been approved...

27 February, 2023

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Misinformation about vaccine safety drives reluctance to vaccinate children

As of late September 2022, nearly 78% of U.S. adults but only 31% of children ages 5 to 11 had completed their primary series of vaccinations against COVID-19, according to health authorities. In an open-access article...

7 October, 2022

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Lassa virus endemic area may expand dramatically in coming decades

New analysis by scientists at Scripps Research and University of Brussels finds that climate change and other factors could soon make deadly Lassa fever a much bigger public health problem in Africa In the study, which...

29 September, 2022

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New York detects vaccine-derived polio case

Health officials in New York announced a vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 case, which involves a person in Rockland County, prompting a vaccination push for the unimmunized and those who aren’t fully protected...

22 July, 2022

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Slow vaccine roll-out prolonging pandemic

Last week saw increasing transmission of COVID-19 in the majority of countries in the WHO European Region, with 1.6 million new cases and close to 24 000 deaths. The Region remains the second most affected by SARS-CoV-2...

6 April, 2021

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Experts call for fair vaccine pricing, not ‘random acts of charity’

Drug companies should stop using donations to atone those who cannot afford expensive vaccines and instead lower prices, argue experts in The BMJ. It follows a recent decision by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to refuse...

1 December, 2016

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The hidden cost of avoiding vaccines

Vaccine-preventable diseases cost the U.S. $9 billion in 2015, mostly because unvaccinated people got sick. It’s flu season—and not getting your shot could prove costly. Last year, influenza dinged the U.S. economy for...

14 October, 2016

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Concerns over proposed rules for preventing spread of infectious diseases

Federal officials have posted proposed rule changes for how they try to prevent the spread of communicable diseases. One group sees some dangers in the proposals. To federal officials, it’s a way to provide greater...

11 October, 2016

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