Typhoid fever, a bacterial infection that causes high fever, headache and other symptoms, remains a serious health problem in the developing world. It kills almost a quarter of a million people annually, and infects about 21 million.
During World Immunization Week 2016, held 24-30 April, WHO highlights recent gains in immunization coverage, and outlines further steps countries can take to \u201cClose the Immunization Gap\u201d and meet global vaccination targets by 2020.
Measles is a highly infectious viral disease which can lead to serious complications. In high income regions of the world such as Western Europe, it causes death in at least 1 in 5000 cases, but as many as 1 in 100 will die in the poorest regions of the world.
A petition calling for the meningitis B vaccine to be given to all children, at least up to age 11 years, has gained a record number of signatoriesfollowing the high profile case of a two-year-old child who died from the infection and whose parents believed they should have received the vaccine. So what is meningitis B and why is the vaccine for it only given to babies under the age of one?
The NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) and the NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Unit in Musculoskeletal Disease (BRU) have announced the successful applicants for its first Principal Fellow Competition. A total of \u00a3675,000 has been awarded to senior Oxford researchers to support research that will have a direct benefit on NHS care.
Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg recently posted a photo on the social networking site of his two-month-old daughter in the doctor\u2019s surgery waiting to be vaccinated. It provoked a storm on social media, with millions of people commenting on the pros and cons of vaccination. So was Zuckerberg right to have his child vaccinated?
Oxford University researchers are making important progress evaluating the impact of an important new programme to save the lives of children in Nepal, which is being discussed in Geneva this week.
Shrijana Shrestha, Imran Ansari, Bibek Khadka & Sanjeev Bijukchhe talk about their experiences of the earthquakes that took place in Nepal this year. Sarah Kelly has added images to the soundtrack and originally presented it at the Oxford Vaccine Group away day. However, we wanted to share the moving stories here too for all to listen to.
Dr Sadarangani gave a talk on the body's immune response to novel vaccines at the Winter Science Meeting 2015 at the Academy of Medical Sciences this month. His efforts to make the talk accessible and engage with a lay audience won him the Communications Prize.
We are looking for healthy adults to take part in the initial trial of a potential new vaccine against a virus considered to be a crucial missing element in the childhood vaccination programme.\r\n\r\n**Please note, this study has recruited a sufficient number of participants**
Researchers from Oxford University's Department of Paediatrics have successfully completed the first human trial of a vaccine for a common virus that is particularly dangerous to infants.
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