The Rush to Find an Ebola Vaccine as the Outbreak and Death Toll Grows
A Red Cross volunteer is the latest victim of the Ebola virus in central Africa, with the chances of the national outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo now rated as very high. Scientists are scrambling to develop a vaccine, with confidence that they’ll have one within months. … The race for a vaccine is […]
What’s Really Happening With Mpox
The World Health Organization (WHO) acted as expected earlier this month and declared Mpox a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). So, a problem in a small number of African countries that has killed about the same number of people this year as die every four hours from tuberculosis has come to dominate international […]
Polio Outbreaks in Burundi and Other African Nations Caused by Vaccine Strain of the Virus
The government of Burundi has declared a national public health emergency due to an outbreak of live vaccine strain poliovirus infections in that country. A mutated strain of the vaccine strain poliovirus, which originally came from the type 2 monovalent oral polio vaccine (mOPV2), was identified in a four-year-old boy in western Burundi and in […]