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Latest News
New vaccines could help us consign tuberculosis to history: here’s how we can do it
This year’s World TB Day, “Yes! We can End TB!” sends a welcome note of optimism that the tide may finally be turning when it comes to tackling the world’s deadliest infectious disease. With new TB vaccines in the final stages of clinical trials…
Bacterial meningitis is deadly, but can also have life‑altering long‑term effects – new study
Outbreaks of bacterial meningitis at NZ and UK universities highlight a need for greater understanding and ongoing support for those who survive an infection.
In Zimbabwe, an almost-deadly collision between fake news and a real virus
Misinformation can affect and even derail polio vaccination campaigns, threatening the lives of children in underprotected communities.
On Kenya’s borders, the Ministry of Health works with truck drivers and sex workers to fight mpox
Both jobs can be socially isolating and physically exposed – an unsalutary combination amid a viral epidemic.
How much does climate change fuel dengue outbreaks?
A new study links 60% of infections during Peru’s 2023 dengue outbreak to extreme rainfall, using a method that could be applied to other climate-driven disease outbreaks.
Mothers in Abuja’s largest IDP camp do whatever it takes to get their kids protected
When the camp health centre shut down, getting children immunised became much, much harder. That hasn’t stopped these mothers.
Cancer vaccines could be transformative, but misinformation threatens their potential
False claims that COVID-19 mRNA vaccines cause cancer could, ironically, lead to worse cancer outcomes by undermining a promising tool to prevent and treat it.
New vaccine to stop deadly meningitis epidemics confirmed to be safe
Analysis of vaccination campaigns in Nigeria and Niger found very few serious adverse events among more than 4.8 million people immunised.
Attacks on hospitals are surging in war zones. What do the laws of war say about protecting them?
Afghanistan says at least 400 people were killed in a Pakistani strike on a hospital on Monday – the latest in a deadly year for medical staff and patients worldwide.
