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Why is the 100-year-old BCG vaccine so broadly protective in newborns?
The century-old Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine against tuberculosis is one of the world’s oldest and most widely used vaccines, used to immunize 100 million newborns every year. Given in countries with endemic...
Climate change will force new animal encounters — and boost viral outbreaks
Over the next 50 years, climate change could drive over 15,000 new cases of mammals transmitting viruses to other mammals, according to a study published in Nature. It’s one of the first to predict how global warming...
Vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks on the rise in Africa
Brazzaville – Africa is witnessing a surge in outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases over the past year. Almost 17,500 cases of measles were recorded in the African region between January and March 2022, marking a...
Omicron less severe than Delta but more easily evades boosters
Three new observational studies from Scotland, Denmark, and the United States detail reduced hospitalizations and emergency department (ED) visits for Omicron COVID-19 infections relative to those caused by the Delta...
Multi-Country – Acute, severe hepatitis of unknown origin in children
Outbreak at a glance: Since the WHO Disease Outbreak News on Acute hepatitis of unknown etiology – the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland was published on 15 April 2022, there have been continuing...
Population-wide study of COVID-19 vaccination shows that mix-and-match approach to booster vaccination offers the best protection
A new study on Chile’s national COVID-19 vaccination program, to be presented at this year’s European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID 2022, Lisbon 23-26), and published in The Lancet...