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The Butantan Institute has already produced more than one million doses of the Butantan-DV vaccine. Copyright: André Rico/Butantan Institute for SciDev.Net

Single-dose dengue vaccine ‘will help Amazon communities’

4 Dec 2025

5 min read

A bowl of yoghurt. Photo by micheile henderson on Unsplash

How vaccines – and yoghurt – could reduce colonisation with antibiotic-resistant bugs

1 Dec 2025

5 min read

Antimicrobial resistance Routine immunisation Pneumococcal

A COVID-19 patient in South Africa, 2020. Rodger Bosch/AFP via Getty Images

Long COVID’s hidden toll: the South Africans still battling fatigue, anxiety and memory loss

28 Nov 2025

6 min read

Cross-posts COVID-19

Woman getting vaccine shot by male medic. Credit: Freepik

Could mRNA vaccines end brutal flu seasons?

26 Nov 2025

3 min read

Influenza

Man coughing with arm outstretched. Credit: Towfiqu barbhuiya/ Unsplash

That urge to hide yourself away when you’re sick? Scientists might have found the cause

25 Nov 2025

3 min read

Research summary

High angle pills beside virus bacteria. Credit: Freepik

Common bacterial infections becoming increasingly untreatable, WHO warns

21 Nov 2025

5 min read

Antimicrobial resistance

A female health worker prepares the HPV vaccine during its introduction in Kosovo in 2024. Credit: Gavi/2024/Armend Nimani

The HPV vaccine is erasing cancer – here's the proof

17 Nov 2025

8 min read

HPV Spotlight on HPV

Sick woman sitting at home in blanket with hot tea. Credit: DC Studio/Freepik

Everything you need to know about ‘subclade K’ flu - and vaccine protection against it

14 Nov 2025

5 min read

Influenza

Colorised transmission electron micrograph of a mature extracellular Nipah Virus particle (purple) near the periphery of an infected VERO cell (brown). Image captured and color-enhanced at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility in Fort Detrick, Maryland. Credit: NIAID (CC by 2.0)

Are we getting closer to the world’s first Nipah vaccine?

12 Nov 2025

7 min read

Nipah

A child in hospital due to respiratory syncytial virus (RSV).

Study reveals the heavy emotional toll of having a baby hospitalised with RSV

7 Nov 2025

5 min read

RSV

A child with a bandaid on the upper arm. Credit: Freepik

COVID-19 infection poses higher, longer heart risks to children than vaccination

5 Nov 2025

5 min read

COVID-19

A woman receiving a vaccine from a health worker. Credit: Freepik

This discovery could make vaccines more effective for older adults

3 Nov 2025

3 min read

Research summary

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