Mumbai measles outbreak due to low vaccination coverage
Evidence from elsewhere suggests that unvaccinated children have nearly 70% higher mortality risk compared with vaccinated children
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Year: 2025
Climate change enables dengue to spread to more countries
Increased temperature due to climate change will allow the vector and virus to spread to countries that are currently free of dengue
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‘Substantial’ pre-symptomatic monkeypox spread found
Case-contact patient pairs study has estimated 53% of monkeypox virus transmission occurred during the pre-symptomatic phase
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Vaccine trial soon amid fear of Ebola virus spread to other countries
Currently there are no vaccines available for the Sudan strain of the Ebola virus
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Corbevax booster should be a vaccine of choice
Due to faulty clinical trial design, the superiority of Corbevax heterologous booster over homologous boosters is not known On January
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Walking a tightrope in messaging monkeypox virus transmission routes
Public health communication about different routes of transmission of monkeypox virus is critical, especially as demographics can change
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Two monkeypox cases in India not linked to Europe
The genetic sequences of monkeypox virus strongly suggested that there were two distinct monkeypox outbreaks
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Time for vigilance as India detects monkeypox cases
Increased testing and building awareness, not stigmatising the infected, can stop the spread of monkeypox
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COVID-19 saw more retractions in science journals than preprints
A small study has found that 143 peer-reviewed journal papers were retracted compared with just 40 retracted preprints
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What is causing a surge in COVID-19 cases in India?
In addition to BA.4 and BA.5, India and about half-a-dozen other countries have reported BA.2.75, which is a new sub-lineage of Omicron
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Study finds three asymptomatic monkeypox cases
The monkeypox viral loads were similar immaterial of whether people showed symptoms or not
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Every reinfection increases the risk to health
Reinfection contributes to additional risk of deaths and adverse health outcomes in the pulmonary and several extrapulmonary organ systems
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What drives sustained growth of monkeypox cases
Sustained transmission of monkeypox in heterosexual population is unlikely in all scenarios studied by researchers
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