Chikungunya virus causes an emerging mosquito-borne viral infection that is endemic to much of Latin America, Africa, and south and southeast Asia. Chikungunya is prone to 8–15 year cycles of temporary epidemic expansion, with the last global outbreak ...
Casirivimab and imdevimab administration before or at the time of COVID-19 vaccination reduced the elicitation of SARS-CoV-2 neutralising antibodies, but minimal effect was observed when vaccination occurred before mAb administration. Although the clin...
Casirivimab and imdevimab administration before or at the time of COVID-19 vaccination reduced the elicitation of SARS-CoV-2 neutralising antibodies, but minimal effect was observed when vaccination occurred before mAb administration. Although the clin...
Monkeypox virus (MPXV) is a zoonotic virus and the causative agent of mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) disease1 previously limited to countries, such as Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, except for occasional importations globally. Ho...
Monkeypox virus (MPXV) is a zoonotic virus and the causative agent of mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) disease1 previously limited to countries, such as Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, except for occasional importations globally. Ho...
People most at risk of severe COVID-19 have been prioritised for both monoclonal antibody (mAb) therapy and vaccination. Although mAbs can provide levels of protection approaching that of vaccination,1 they require repeated administration, and ongoing ...
People most at risk of severe COVID-19 have been prioritised for both monoclonal antibody (mAb) therapy and vaccination. Although mAbs can provide levels of protection approaching that of vaccination,1 they require repeated administration, and ongoing ...
At the onset of the pandemic, Glenda Gray, Lead Co-Investigator at Sisonke and President of the South African Medical Research Council, did something that she had not done in years: she stopped wearing her watch. March, 2020, marked the beginning of a ...
At the onset of the pandemic, Glenda Gray, Lead Co-Investigator at Sisonke and President of the South African Medical Research Council, did something that she had not done in years: she stopped wearing her watch. March, 2020, marked the beginning of a ...
In the past few months, many authors have reported on an outbreak of a so-called dangerous clade I of mpox circulating mainly in DR Congo, which causes more severe symptoms than clade II that has been prevalent in west Africa, and during the global out...
McMahon R, Toepfer S, Sattler N, et al. Antibody persistence and safety of a live-attenuated chikungunya virus vaccine up to 2 years after single-dose administration in adults in the USA: a single-arm, multicentre, phase 3b study. Lancet Infect Dis 202...
HIV, gender and the politics of medicine by Elizabeth Mills, Senior Lecturer in International Development at the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK, discusses the ways in which political policy affects HIV treatment. Although Mills has been researching...
Historically, the control of infectious diseases in Sierra Leone has been tied with the transatlantic slave trade, the British resettlement of freed slaves in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the subsequent colonisation by the British. In A...
Oropouche virus (OROV) is an orthobunyavirus mainly transmitted by the bites of Culicoides paraensis. OROV is endemic to the north region of Brazil and is also found in other countries, including Peru, Panama, and Trinidad and Tobago.1 OROV is the caus...
Brazil has seen an alarming increase in cases of Oropouche fever, an emerging arboviral disease caused by the Oropouche virus, which has sparked public health concerns due to the first confirmed reports of deaths and vertical transmission. This situati...
As COVID-19 restrictions have eased, the resumption of international travel and sexual interactions at large gatherings have fueled the continued spread of human mpox beyond its endemic regions.1–3 The current global circulation of the clade II variant...