Measles

Officials in Barisal, Banlgadesh, reported that three children recently died after being injected with a measles vaccine at Kalikapur Community Health Clinic in Hijla upazila of Barisal.

Swine flu

Officials with the European Medicines Agency are looking into the safety of the swine flu vaccine Pandemrix after reports surfaced that the treatment may be linked to a rare sleep disorder.

The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America has called for mandatory flu vaccinations for all healthcare personnel in a recently released position paper jointly released with the Infectious Diseases Society of America.

Anne W. Rimoin

With cases of monkeypox are now raging in parts of Africa, University of California researchers say the world’s victory over smallpox may have had consequences.

A new pneumococcal vaccine will replace the existing one used in Hong Kong government’s Childhood Immunization Program, officials have announced.

Eastern equine encephalitis

Two cases of eastern equine encephalitis have been reported in Michigan, coming on the heels of four EEE-related deaths in Florida earlier this season.

Whooping cough

Health officials in Peoria, Illinois, have reported that seven cases of whooping cough, or pertussis, have been reported in the tri-county area.

Whooping cough

The number of whooping cough cases in San Diego County has risen to 384 cases, surpassing the previous record set in 2005 at 371 cases.

Joint Commission Resources has announced the successful results of its second annual Flu Vaccination Challenge.

Paula Thaqi

Florida health officials this week confirmed the first case of dengue fever has been reported in Broward County.

E. coli

Health officials warn that a new superbug that is resistant to even the strongest antibiotics has entered into United Kingdom hospitals.

Margaret Chan

Margaret Chan, director general for the World Health Organization, announced August 10 that the swine flu pandemic was officially at an end.

Approximately 16 million remaining doses of monovalent 2009 H1N1 vaccine made by Sanofi Pasteur and packaged in multidose vials will expire sooner than expected.

Salmonella

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has begun investigating two salmonella outbreaks that have been ongoing since April.

Rotavirus

Researchers in Asia and Africa said this week that trials have shown rotavirus vaccines can save the lives of young children and that vaccination programs should begin immediately.

Officials with Seattle’s Virginia Mason Medical Center, the first U.S. hospital to successfully institute mandatory flu vaccinations for its healthcare workers, said the payoffs have been well worth some of the challenges.

While health officials in California have reported the seventh infant death in the state this year, other states across the country are beginning to report an increase in pertussis whooping cough cases.

The third recorded fatality in southern Florida this year attributed to Eastern Equine Encephalitis has many area residents wondering what they can do to protect themselves and their loved ones.

A lawsuit filed by the Nigerian victims of the 1996 Trovan meningitis vaccine test hit a snag after officials with Federal High Court in Abuja, Nigeria, set aside the service of the court’s processes on Pfizer Specialties.

Pertussis

Officials with the L.A. Dept. of Public Health have reported the third death attributed to whooping cough, or pertussis, in the county this year, bringing the death toll in California's whooping cough outbreak to six.

HIV

Officials with the Finnish pharmaceutical company Fit Biotech announced recently that results of an HIV vaccination they have been developing are promising.

Giardiasis

A new study has revealed that three waterborne illnesses cost the U.S. healthcare system up to $539 million a year.

H1N1

Despite warnings that it would aid in the spread of H1N1, approximately one out of every four people failed to cover their mouths when they cough, research presented at the International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases revealed.

Human papillomavirus

Researchers with QIAGEN said a recent study has shown that Latin American women who used its human papillomavirus test showed improved cervical cancer control when compared to regular cytology testing.

Whooping cough

Health officials in Orange County, California, have reported that whooping cough cases continue to climb, although no new local deaths have been reported.

Human papillomavirus

Officials with Dynavax Technologies Corporation announced on July 6 that they were awarded a $600,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop a universal vaccine for human papilloma virus .

Human papillomavirus

Medical experts from across the world are meeting this week in Montreal, Canada, for the 26th annual International Papillomavirus Conference.

Pertussis

The whooping cough epidemic in California - the worst in 50 years - has given credence to a proposed bill for mandatory whooping cough booster shots.

H1N1

Officials with SciClone Pharmaceuticals and its partner. Sigma-Tau S.p.A., recently announced the final results from the clinical trial of ZADAXIN, an H1N1 vaccine enhancer.

H1N1

Molecular diagnostic tests used during the peak of the H1N1 outbreak in 2009 have officially had their emergency use statuses terminated last week.

The discovery of the existence of West Nile virus in mosquitoes has been announced in Benton County, Wash.

Officials with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a rough draft Wednesday of proposed guidelines for preventing H1N1 and seasonal influenza in a healthcare setting.

H1N1

Officials with the World Health Organization have announced that swine flu containment measures failed to work as planned and will likely need to be revised before future pandemics occur.

West Nile Virus

Several cases of West Nile Virus have been reported in Georgia so far this year, leading experts to worry that the virus has appeared earlier than usual.

Swiss researchers recently announced that they have created a “one size fits all” shot that could be used to combat multiple ailments, including asthma and hay fever.

Malaria

Officials with Mymetics Corporation announced have announced that the company's malaria vaccine has successfully completed Phase Ib clinical trials in Tanzania.

The results of safety evaluations for recently approved drugs and vaccines are now being posted online by the Food and Drug Administration.

DNA

Officials with Inovio Pharmaceuticals have announced the publication of an article exploring the “rebirth” of DNA vaccines in the July issue of Scientific American magazine.

Kenneth Shea

Researchers in California have reported a first – that a plastic antibody works in the body of a living animal.

A recent workshop at the University of Florida looked at the possibility of an insect-based form of terrorism that could be launched in the state.

Bill Gates

Officials with the Argentine government announced recently that a local scientist’s vaccine development program will soon receive funding from Bill Gates’ foundation, according to a news report in the Latin American Herald Tribune.

H1N1

Health officials in Hong Kong announced on Thursday that they intend to throw away 2.8 million doses of unwanted swine flu vaccines valued at approximately $28.2 million.

Measles

Approximately 142 Walmart shareholders in Fayettville, Arkansas, were given measles vaccines as a precautionary measure after an attendee took ill with measles-like symptoms, according to officials with the Arkansas Department of Health.

Hepatitis A

Officials with the Pueblo City-County Health Department in Pueblo, Colorado, alerted the public to a possible hepatitis A exposure that may have occurred on May 31 at Desert Hawk at Pueblo West golf course.

Malaria

Researchers at Rockefeller University may have found a way to fend off malaria by using a yellow fever vaccine, according to a newswire.rockefeller.edu report.

Bill Gates

Although Nigeria has seen a 99 percent drop in reported cases of polio between 2009 and 2010, Microsoft founder Bill Gates recently told 234next.com that more contributions are needed from the richer nations and global donors.

H1N1

Many provinces in Canada are beginning to report that their swine flu vaccination programs are failing.

Brain cancer

Officials with ImmunoCellular Therapeutics Ltd. announced las week that the early clinical trial of its brain cancer vaccine is showing progress, Reuters reports.

Flu vaccine

The recently-published results of a new Harvard study concluded that a significant portion of the American public may not be willing to get immunized with another new flu vaccine, according to a Homeland Security Today news report.

Researchers in the U.K. say that a trial of swine flu vaccines has shown to provide “good protection” against the virus, according to the results of a Health Production Agency study released by the BBC.

Andrew Wakefield

A “vaccine choice” rally was recently held in Chicago's Grant Park that featured the doctor at the center of the vaccine-autism debate, chicagobreakingnews.com reports.

Two University of Louisville School of Medicine doctors have concluded that delaying childhood vaccinations does not improve children’s health, according to a study in the medical journal Pediatrics.

Hendra virus

A girl that attended a dying horse may have been exposed to the lethal Hendra virus on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, according to a news report in the Solomon Star.

H1N1

While the reasons varied, the overall consensus was the same – most people who did not receive the H1N1 vaccine last year did not think the flu was a serious risk according to a review that was recently published in the online version of the New England J

Smallpox vaccine

The discontinuation of the smallpox vaccine may have been a factor in the spread of AIDS , according to the results of a study recently published in BMC Immunology.

MRSA

Drug resistant child staph infection cases are on the rise according to a study involving 25 children’s hospitals across the nation, the Associated Press reports.

Measles

Five confirmed cases of measles in Alberta, Canada, have led to officials with Alberta Health Services requesting residents to get measles vaccines, according to iNews880.com.

Mumps virus

China-based vaccine manufacturer Biotech Ltd. has submitted an application to the China State Food and Drug Administration to begin human clinical trials for a mumps vaccine, Medical News Today reports.

H1N1

Zydus Cadilla, an Ahmedabad, India-based drug company, announced that it has become the first Indian firm to market the country’s first H1N1 flu vaccine, officials told LiveMint.com.

The Food and Drug Administration, with the help of a panel of experts, has determined that recent findings regarding rotovirus vaccines Rotateq, made by Merck and Co. Pharmaceuticals, and Rotateq, made by GlaxoSmithCline, should not lead to the continued

The National Vaccine Information Center formally called on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration this week to increase its labeling practices and legal vaccine safety testing.

Chickenpox

Florida's Lee County has issued an outbreak warning for chickenpox after 41 confirmed cases of the disease have hit children since February.

World Health Organization

World Health Officials announced last week that outbreaks of dengue fever have risen in the Asia Pacific region in the past year, killing three times more victims in 2008 than in recent years.

Pertussis

Several confirmed cases of pertussis, also known as whooping cough, have resulted in a California county issuing a public alert warning of the disease.

E.coli vaccine

Novartis scientists say they are getting closer to creating a universal E.coli vaccine.

Gardasil

The Associated Press reports that, on behalf of her teenage daughter, an Albuquerque, N.M., woman has sued the producer of a vaccine that is supposed to protect women from cervical cancer.

Testing of an experimental prostate cancer drug begun almost two years after the research was stopped will soon restart, BioSante Pharmaceuticals, Inc. said on Monday.

CDC

A record 40 percent of adults and children, fearing swine flu, received the ordinary seasonal flu last year, federal health officials said this week.

Wayne Pisano

The 2010 World Vaccines Congress met last week just outside Washington D.C., with attendees discussing the latest news in the vaccine world.

Kim Hames

The West Australian Health Minister has announced that more than 60 West Australian children may have had adverse reactions to a flu vaccine.

streptococcus pneumonia

The Boston University School of Medicine's Richard Goldstein, a professor of pediatrics, has been awarded a three-year, $300,000 grant to aid in his research to create a more effective pneumonia vaccine.

Dr. Glenn Bauman

The human papilloma vaccine, which is intended to prevent cervical cancer, is now believed by cancer doctors to prevent other cancers in both men and women.

HPV virus

Following the deaths of six children who had been administered the controversial Human Papilloma Virus vaccines in India, a phase-3 trial of the vaccines has been canceled by the nation's government.

Dr. Pere Santamaria

A new study, published online April 8 by Cell Press in the journal Immunity, describes a therapeutic "nanovaccine" that successfully reverses diabetes in a mouse model of the disease.

NEW YORK — The flu shot is safe for most kids with egg allergies, according to a new report in Pediatrics released April 5.

HIV

Peregrine Pharmaceuticals Inc. announced April 5 the publication of data showing phosphatidylserine (PS)-targeting antibodies can block one of the key ways the AIDS virus gains entry into certain blood cells.

OTTAWA — Canada has pulled the plug on funding to one of the largest AIDS vaccine development agencies in the world, the Winnipeg Free Press reported March 31.

World Health Organization

Cuba will begin vaccinating nearly 10 percent of its citizens against swine flu this week, reversing its previous skepticism about the high cost and effectiveness of immunization to combat the virus, The Associated Press reported March 26.

H1N1

Two people with compromised immune systems who became ill with 2009 H1N1 influenza developed drug-resistant strains of virus after less than two weeks on therapy, doctors from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases reported March 26.

H1N1

ROCKVILLE, Md. — Novavax Inc. confirmed March 24 that its potential H1N1 flu vaccine prompted an immune response in patients during a midstage study.

This year's World TB Day theme, "On the move against tuberculosis: Innovate to accelerate action," addresses a critical aspect of the core business and values of the European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership.

Tuberculosis

In remarks March 24, World Tuberculosis Day, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton urged everyone to "reaffirm our commitment to tackle this deadly disease together."

Officials from the Food and Drug Administration are advising that doctors should temporarily stop using the vaccine against a diarrhea-causing virus because the vaccine is contaminated with an apparently harmless pig virus.

Health care personnel influenza immunization rates have remained low, despite recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

IOWA CITY, Iowa — Increasing vaccination rates of health care personnel substantially improves patient safety, lowering flu deaths by 40 percent, researchers suggest.

Chickenpox

HANOI, Vietnam — An outbreak of chickenpox is hitting Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi as the number of infected children admitted to hospitals in big cities has increased significantly, the Voice of Vietnam reported March 15.

TAMPA, Fla. and MINNEAPOLIS — Biovest International Inc. announced March 17 that it will present information about its personalized cancer vaccine, BiovaxID, at the following upcoming conferences:

LINCOLNSHIRE, Ill. — BioSante Pharmaceuticals received orphan drug status for its potential pancreatic cancer treatment, the company announced March 15.

WASHINGTON — The United States’ "vaccine court" has once again concluded that vaccines don't cause autism.

Fuad El-Hibri

ROCKVILLE, Md. — The World Trade Center Institute announced March 11 that Emergent BioSolutions Inc.’s chairman and CEO has been named as one of Maryland’s outstanding international business leade

DEERFIELD, Ill. — Baxter International Inc., in conjunction with DynPort Vaccine Co., announced Phase III study data measuring the clinical efficacy for its trivalent seasonal influenza candidate vaccine on March 11 in Miami.

Decades of vaccination and prevention efforts may have the hepatitis viruses on the run, according to a new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released March 10.

With spring break coming up and large numbers of students expected to travel both domestically and internationally, getting vaccinated against 2009 H1N1 influenza is especially important.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court announced March 8 that it would decide whether a federal law protects vaccine manufacturers from lawsuits in state court seeking damages for alleged design defects.

HIV

A seven-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine can protect adults with HIV against recurrent pneumococcal infection, according to research published in the March 4 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has awarded Abt Associates two new contracts to evaluate the effectiveness of the H1N1 vaccine among health care workers and children younger than 18, the company announced March 5.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has received reports of several cases of malaria in Haiti since a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck the country Jan. 12.

Kanji Takada, a professor of pharmacokinetics, has developed a round vaccine "chip" measuring 1.5 centimeters in diameter that contains as many as 300 micro needles.

The U.S. Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices last week heard a report about the high-dose influenza vaccine that was recently approved for people 65 and older but voiced no preference for its use in that age group.

As an international crowd of athletes and supporters gathered en masse in Vancouver, some scientists used the Olympics as their virtual test tube to find out how to prevent the outbreak of diseases spread by air travel.

CHICAGO — One in four U.S. parents believes some vaccines cause autism in healthy children, but even many of those worried about vaccine risks think their children should be vaccinated, The Associated Press reported March 1.

World Health Organization

GENEVA — The current H1N1 swine flu pandemic is relatively less severe than some other influenza outbreaks, the World Health Organization said Feb. 24

AMSTERDAM — The Dutch health authority RIVM said Feb. 23 the deaths of three infants last year were not related to a vaccine produced by U.S. pharmaceutical company Wyeth, now part of Pfizer.

The Texas A&M University System and a Texas company have been awarded a $40 million grant from the U.S. Department of Defense to develop vaccines made from tobacco rather than the antiquated egg-based technology.

Pneumococcal

Children younger than 5 who already got four doses of Pfizer Inc.'s Prevnar 13 vaccine should get a fifth booster dose of the new version that covers more strains of pneumonia-causing bacteria.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — South Africa faces a possible health crisis if an H1N1 flu outbreak strikes during the soccer World Cup this year, the country’s health minister told parliament Feb. 15, Reuters reported.

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

WASHINGTON — An AIDS vaccine that appears to have worked at least partly in Thailand may only temporarily protect patients, with the effects starting to wane after a year or so, researchers reported Feb. 18.

Politecnico di Milano

LONDON — Italian scientists said Feb. 19 that they had found evidence of how viruses helped change the course of human evolution and said their discovery could help in the design of better drugs and vaccines.

World Health Organization

The cause of a measles outbreak sweeping South Africa has not as yet been determined, but initial suspicions point to religious objections and unfounded fears that immunizations against the disease increase the risk of autism in children.

World Health Organization

GENEVA — The World Health Organization will convene its emergency committee later this month to examine whether the H1N1 flu pandemic has peaked, its top influenza expert said Feb. 11.

Social interaction between neighbors, work colleagues and other communities and social groups makes voluntary vaccination programs for epidemics such as H1N1 flu, SARS or avian flu a surprisingly effective method of disease control.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently addressed questions about the vaccine for the 2010-11 flu season on its Web site.

Mumps

NEW YORK — New York City health officials are encouraging young adults, especially males, in the Jewish communities in Brooklyn to get vaccinated for mumps, UPI reported Feb. 9.

H1N1

BOSTON – The latest poll from researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health shows that 44 percent of Americans believe the H1N1 flu outbreak is over, and levels of concern about getting sick with the virus continue to decline.

Novavax's viruslike particle vaccines

TEL AVIV, Israel — Novavax Inc. announced Feb. 8 that it ended talks aimed at a collaboration with Rovi Pharmaceuticals of Madrid to develop Novavax's viruslike particle vaccines against influenza in Spain.

Malaria

Research done at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University's School of Biological Sciences could lead to the development of more potent drugs or a vaccine for malaria, ScienceDaily reported Feb. 5.

World Health Organization

There is now so much unused H1N1 pandemic flu vaccine in the world that rich nations, including the United States, are trying to get rid of their surpluses.

When it comes to vaccines, everyone now wants to get in on the action.

SV40

SV40 viruses use an amazing means of communication, in order to be able to penetrate into a cell: fats, whose structure must fit like a key in a lock, ScienceDaily reported Jan. 29.

Malaria

Médecins Sans Frontières teams in Burundi's Kayanza province assessing and treating patients in the midst of a rise in the incidence of malaria, the organization also known as Doctors Without Borders reported Jan. 29.

Pneumococcal

PATH, an international nonprofit global health organization, recently signed an agreement with the University of Kansas Center for Research to support the advancement of vaccine candidates across its vaccine development portfolio.

Traditional vaccines can be ineffective and expensive. Now, an interdisciplinary team of Cornell researchers has devised a new way to make vaccines that promises to prevent diseases much more cheaply, the university announced Jan. 25.

Salmonella

Research from Malawi, Birmingham and Liverpool has renewed hope that an effective vaccine could be developed against nontyphoidal strains of salmonella.

More than 30 health providers and organizations released an open letter advising people to get vaccinated. Below is the text of that letter.

Prostate Cancer Cells

In a newly published clinical trial, patients with metastatic prostate cancer who received a vaccine of harmless poxviruses lived substantially longer than patients who received a placebo vaccine.

Rotavirus

WASHINGTON — A vaccination campaign to combat rotavirus in the world's poorest countries could save the lives of hundreds of thousands of children, according to a pair of studies published this week.

The World Health Organization released a statement Jan. 22 addressing allegations of a conflict of interest and a fake pandemic meant to aid the pharmaceutical industry.

Helicobacter Pylori

Despite a strong response from our immune defense, the body is unable to rid itself of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has called on Washington to send medication to the quake-stricken Haiti rather than troops.

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

WASHINGTON — A vaccine additive made by Novartis and used in its European influenza shots can boost the body's immune response to a wide range of viruses, U.S. researchers reported Jan. 20 according to Reuters.

Archie Griffin

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Ohio Department of Health partnered with Archie Griffin, a two-time Heisman Trophy winner and Ohio State University alumnus, to encourage Ohioans to tackle H1N1 by getting a flu vaccine.

Malaria

The parasite that causes malignant malaria in humans has been detected in gorillas, according to a study co-authored by biologist Francisco Ayala of the University of California, Irvine.

HPV

The number of women under 30 diagnosed with cervical cancer will fall nearly two thirds by 2025 thanks to the vaccine against human papillomavirus, researchers say.

ATLANTA — About one in five Americans has been vaccinated against H1N1 flu, according to the government's first detailed estimates of vaccination rates against the pandemic, the Washington Post reported Jan. 16.

World Health Organization

WARSAW, Poland — The government here refused to import H1N1 flu vaccines amid worldwide warnings of a spreading epidemic.

Jason Derülo

“Whatcha Say” singer Jason Derülo had a stellar 2009 — a No. 1 Billboard Hot 100 single, an opening spot on Lady Gaga's Monster Ball Tour — and he knows that if he wants to step it up in 2010, he's going to have to stay healthy.

HiN1

VIENNA — AVIR Green Hills Biotechnology, based in Austria, announced Jan. 13 that it is embarking on the first clinical phase II study for the seasonal vaccine deltaFLU

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Charleston Area Medical Center plans to terminate two employees for refusing to take a seasonal flu vaccine, the Charleston Daily Mail reported Jan. 13.

LONDON — GlaxoSmithKline Plc agreed to reduce Germany’s order of Pandemrix H1N1 flu vaccine by $193 million on Jan. 12 after health officials decided they need fewer doses, the country’s Health Ministry said.

President Barack Obama, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and its Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced a nationwide effort to encourage H1N1 flu vaccination during National Influenza Vaccination Week from Jan. 10–16.

Malaria

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Cambodia has seen a rise in reported cases of dengue fever and malaria in 2009, local media reported Jan. 5, citing health officials here.

Flu Vaccine

Flu shots do not protect arthritis patients who are being treated with the intravenous drug rituximab, according to a new study by Dutch researchers, The New York Times and Los Angeles Times reported Jan. 7.

H1N1

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention posted this “fact sheet” about thimerosal in H1N1 vaccines on its Web site Jan. 4.

NEW YORK — A new study provides further evidence that the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine is not associated with an increased risk of autism, Reuters Health reported Jan. 4.

The Center for Disease Control has reported only four cases of flu-related pediatric mortality across seven states during the week ending January 2.

Squalene

Vaccines being made to protect people from H1N1 flu may not be so healthy for threatened species of sharks, National Geographic News reported Dec. 29.

Stomach Cancer

GOTHENBURG, Sweden — New research at Sahlgrenska Academy might be an important step toward creating a vaccine against ulcers and stomach cancer, The Local reported Dec. 30.

World Health Organization

GENEVA — World Health Organization chief Margaret Chan revealed that she has yet to be vaccinated against the H1N1 flu virus, which has killed more than 11,500 people worldwide.

TB

National Health Service efforts to tackle tuberculosis in England are improving, but worryingly nearly 18 percent TB hot spot areas, and 60 percent of all areas, still don't have a strategy in place to tackle the disease.

SILVER SPRING, Md. — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Fluzone High-Dose, an inactivated influenza virus vaccine for people ages 65 years and older to prevent disease caused by influenza virus subtypes A and B.

WASHINGTON -- Drugmaker MedImmune is recalling nearly 5 million doses of H1N1 flu vaccine because the nasal spray appears to lose strength over time, federal health officials announced Dec. 22.

H5N1

QUEBEC CITY — Medicago Inc., a biotechnology company focused on developing vaccines based on proprietary manufacturing technologies and virus-like particles.

Can young children get by with just one dose of the H1N1 swine flu vaccine?

ZURICH — Europe's drugs watchdog has recommended approving a meningitis vaccine made by Switzerland's Novartis, according to Reuters.

H1N1

PARIS — French drugmaker Sanofi-Aventis SA aims to double sales at its Sanofi Pasteur vaccines business by 2013, compared to the 2008 level, and reiterated it could make acquisitions in this fast-growing area.

Pneumococcal vaccine

While a nationwide push for vaccination against H1N1 and seasonal flu has led to long lines for shots, another vaccine against a common and deadly flu complication — pneumonia — hasn't gotten nearly as much attention.

World Health Organization

DAKAR, Senegal — Health experts in Africa are calling on governments to vaccinate children against rotavirus, to end an “unacceptable” yet preventable situation in which the virus kills some 1,400 children in developing countries daily

The Centers for Disease Control has reported 16 flu-related deaths among children across nine states during the week ending December 5.

H1N1

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's vaccination campaign against the H1N1 flu strain is not proceeding as fast as it should be partly because people are needlessly worried about the vaccine’s safety, officials said Dec. 11.

Centers for Disease Control

The Centers for Disease Control has reported only nine cases of flu-related pediatric mortality across seven states during the week ending December 12. This the lowest number reported by the CDC so far this quarter.

Tuberculosis

CANCUN, Mexico — Health experts called for more research funding to develop better diagnostic tests, vaccines and drugs for tuberculosis, which killed 1.8 million people around the world last year.

The H1N1 swine flu has sickened at least 22 million and killed almost 4,000 in the United States since April, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Flu Vaccine

WASHINGTON — Congress, the Obama administration and taxpayers need to accept that drugmakers are not going to pursue discovery and development of emergency medical countermeasures out of the kindness of their hearts.

Measles

LONDON -- Global deaths from measles fell by 78 percent between 2000 and 2008 thanks largely to mass childhood vaccination campaigns, but experts say death rates may rise again if complacency allows immunization efforts to lag.

H1N1

The number of states with widespread pandemic flu activity dropped for the third week in a row, but the virus continued to take a heavy toll on children, with at least 27 more pediatric deaths reported the week of Nov 15 to 21.

Anders Hedegaard

KVISTGARD, Denmark — Bavarian Nordic A/S announced Nov. 30 that it expects to file a new drug submission for its third-generation smallpox vaccine, Imvamune with Health Canada in the second half of 2010.

GlaxoSmithKline announced Nov. 30 that it has filed its vaccine for the prevention of rotavirus gastroenteritis (approved as Rotarix in several countries outside of Japan).

Avian flu

The Ministry of Health of Egypt has reported a new confirmed human case of avian influenza A (H5N1), the World Health Organization said Nov. 27.

H1N1

GENEVA — Tamiflu resistance in some H1N1 patients with badly weakened immune systems does not seem to reflect a major change in the virus' susceptibility to the frontline drug, the World Health Organization said Nov. 26.

HIV

World AIDS Day on Dec. 1 is intended to draw together people from around the world to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS and demonstrate international solidarity in the face of the pandemic, according to the World Health Organization.

DURHAM, N.C. -- Tests have confirmed that samples from four patients with H1N1 influenza were found to be resistant to oseltamivir, known by the brand name Tamiflu.

HANOI, Vietnam — Through its commitment to immunization and other child health interventions, Vietnam has drastically reduced its child deaths, the GAVI Alliance announced Nov. 20 during its partner forum.

Dr. Anthony Fauci

Dr. Anthony Fauci wrote this commentary, posted Nov. 17, for msnbc.com. He is director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in Bethesda, Md.

H1N1

LYON, France — Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of the sanofi-aventis Group announced that the French drug agency Afssaps has granted marketing authorization in France for Panenza, its non-adjuvanted Influenza H1N1 2009 monovalent vaccine.

Mumps Virus

ATLANTA — U.S. health officials say the largest U.S. outbreak of mumps in three years is occurring in New York and New Jersey, The Associated Press reports.

Ebola

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — U.S. military officials sent a medical team to a remote outpost in southern Afghanistan this week to take blood samples from members of an Army unit after a soldier in the unit died from an Ebola-like virus.

The Center for Disease Control has reported 35 flu-related pediatric deaths that occurred in 17 states during the week ending November 9. The previous week only reported 18 deaths in nine states.

Anthrax

Emergent BioSolutions Inc. announced that two medical countermeasures included in its anthrax franchise have been included as covered countermeasures under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act.

Anthrax

ROCKVILLE, Md. — Emergent BioSolutions Inc. announced July 31, 2008, that it has submitted a proposal in response to a request by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for a recombinant protective antigen anthrax vaccine (rPA).

Anthrax

ROCKVILLE, Md. —Emergent BioSolutions Inc. announced that on March 6, 2008, it completed the acquisition of a group of anthrax monoclonal antibodies from AVANIR Pharmaceuticals, including Avanir’s lead product candidate, AVP-21D9.

Fuad El-Hibri

GAITHERSBURG, Md. — Emergent BioSolutions Inc. announced that it would celebrate its recently completed initial public offering with the ringing of the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange by chairman and CEO Fuad El-Hibri on Nov. 22, 2006.

Anthrax

Emergent BioSolutions announced that it has been awarded two grants from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases totaling $3.8 million to support the development of the anthrax immune globulin (AIG) therapeutic product.

GAITHERSBURG, Md. — Emergent BioSolutions Inc. announced June 21, 2006, that a former secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has been named to its board of directors.