Giving parents access to a website containing information about the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine is the most cost-effective way of increasing its uptake, new University of Leeds research has found. Informing...
A new virus has been discovered that could lurk in the guts of almost three-quarters of people around the world, making it one of the most ubiquitous viruses you never knew you had. The virus, which replicates by...
Public Health England have drawn together advanced data tools to better their diagnosis and surveillance of life-threatening infectious diseases. The Department of Health’s executive agency Public Health England is...
HIV can rapidly form invulnerable strongholds in the body, dashing hopes that early treatment might cure the virus, according to new research. A baby was thought to have been cured with treatment hours after birth, but...
Sometimes, a simple technical fix – or techno-fix, as the critics like to say – is exactly what’s needed. It’s getting people, organizations and industry to accept the change that can be the biggest complication...
Scientists undertaking a “Herculean study” in malaria parasite development recently announced that they are getting closer to disrupting the lifecycle of the parasite—one of the world’s deadliest diseases. Researchers...
The most advanced vaccine for dengue only offers modest protection but could still help millions of people avoid the devastating effects of the disease known as “breakbone fever,” according to a large trial...
Giving children under 5 years old an extra dose of inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) helps to boost their immunity to the poliovirus and should be added to vaccination programmes in polio-endemic countries and those...
Recommendations to help prevent health-care-associated infections transmitted through clothing. New guidance from the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) provides recommendations to prevent...
The discovery of a schistosomiasis parasite egg in a 6,200-year-old grave in Syria may be the earliest evidence that agricultural irrigation systems in the Middle East contributed to a vast spread of disease, scientists...