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ViVa 30– Outbreak News (29th July 2026)

Europe West Nile virus in Europe: ECDC’s seasonal surveillance shows West Nile transmission is underway, with 81 locally acquired human cases across six countries and 35 affected areas reported as of 22 July 2026; Italy...

29 July, 2026

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Microbiology and infectious diseases in numbers

We share this planet with more microorganisms than we can meaningfully picture—and understanding just how small a fraction of them threatens us reframes how we think about vaccines, exposure, and immunity. A planet...

29 July, 2026

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Literature update ViVa week 30-2026

1. Two months earlier beats twice as fast: modeling shows South Korea’s vaccine timing, not speed, saved the most lives Summary: This scenario-based modeling study used an age-structured compartmental model...

29 July, 2026

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Reassessment: Qdenga and the seronegative risk signal

My colleague pointed me to a modeling study by Cracknell et al. that I had not seen before my ViVa 29 publication on dengue vaccines and the discontinuation of the Butantan-DV program in Brazil. Summary Imperial College...

29 July, 2026

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vaccines don’t trigger flares in patient with autoimmune disease — German claims study delivers reassurance

Summary This retrospective, population-based cohort study emulated six target trials using German statutory health insurance (BARMER) claims data (2013–2019) to assess whether pneumococcal (PV) or influenza (IV)...

27 July, 2026

2 min read

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Literature update ViVa week 29-2026

1. Old epilepsy drug repurposed as a low-cost metabolic vaccine booster increases T-cell responses 10-fold in a human trial Summary: A multiomic screen matched T-cell memory transcriptional signatures against more than...

23 July, 2026

13 min read

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The PPP of dengue vaccines: past, present, and pipeline

Background: recent event Brazil’s Ministry of Health has temporarily suspended the Butantan dengue vaccine (Butantan‑DV) as a precaution after a small number of serious suspected adverse events, including two deaths...

23 July, 2026

12 min read

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Human pertussis challenge study identifies plausible correlates of protection—but only in a whole-cell-primed generation

Summary Two Lancet Microbe papers together present and contextualize a controlled human infection model for Bordetella pertussis in healthy adults. The primary study showed that outpatient intranasal challenge with CFU...

22 July, 2026

2 min read

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