Prof David Heymann News Today

The Democratic Republic of Congo is struggling to control a far deadlier form of mpox, known as clade one, which is spreading unchecked

Measles, the great scourge of infants during Victorian England, is back with a vengeance. It doesn’t seem so long ago that the World Health Organisation was declaring that the viral infection – which can spread to the brain and cause neurological complications as well as pneumonia – had been eliminated in England, thanks to the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine.

Experts say the DRC’s outbreak, where ‘hundreds have probably been killed’, demonstrates the global threat posed by the illness

As monkeypox spreads across Europe, experts argue the rise of the virus is linked to declining protection against its far deadlier cousin

Outbreak is ‘significant’ but risk to population remains low, say officials

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It’s not the first time the virus has been found in Britain but now there are chains of transmission

SHARE At a time when tensions have erupted over vaccines supplies, Europes Centre for Disease Control took an important step on Monday with the launch of tracker for inocolation around the continent. The move to improve transparency showed patchy distribution so far, something that tallied with the anger over constraints on the programme which resulted in about eight million doses being administered so far among a population of almost 400 million. Britain with a population of almost 70 million...