16 December 2022
A vaccine for strep A may not be very profitable for pharmaceutical companies and there are technical challenges that make such vaccines difficult to develop, but early-stage clinical trials are underway
23 November 2022
Recurrent UTIs could one day be prevented with a vaccine instead of antibiotics if promising results in mice and rabbits are replicated in clinical trials
17 March 2020
A pandemic is an infectious disease epidemic that is spreading between people in multiple countries.
18 December 2019
Once deemed a problem of the past in rich nations, the deadly infection has made a huge comeback, reports Chelsea Whyte
16 December 2019
HIV, the human immunodeficiency virus, is the microorganism responsible for AIDS – acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.
6 November 2019
A vaccine based on a weakened version of the dengue virus was 80 per cent effective at preventing infections after one year in a trial of 20,000 children
5 November 2019
The hunt is on for a vaccine for African swine fever, after a quarter of the world's domestic pigs have died this year, including half of all the pigs in China
23 August 2019
Nigeria has officially wiped out wild polio, but there have already been 15 cases of infection this year, caused by the live virus used in some vaccines
29 July 2019
A single dose of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine seems to be almost as good as two or three injections for preventing cervical precancerous lesions
24 April 2019
An estimated 169 million children worldwide have missed out on getting the first dose of a measles vaccine, including more than half a million in the UK
