Measles

In an effort to eliminate measles, nearly 100 million children in China will be vaccinated against the disease this month.

Hepatitis B

Dynavax Technologies has received funding from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious diseases to study the differences between individuals who do and do not respond to vaccinations against the hepatitis B virus.

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.

Rift Valley fever

Officials with the Midwest Research Institute have announced that they have won a $1.6 million federal contract to study a virus that could be a biological threat.

Dengue mosquito

The Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University has begun human clinical testing for a dengue fever vaccine.

Sonia Saxena

A decline in English children’s pneumonia has been linked to increased levels of vaccination.

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.

Influenza

New flu shot guidelines recently released by the American Academy of Pediatrics advise that all children six months of age and older should receive the annual trivalent influenza vaccine this flu season.

West Nile virus

The first human case of West Nile Virus to be documented in Massachusetts this year has been recorded in Boston.

HPV

GlaxoSmithKline’s European license for Cervarix was amended recently to reflect Cervarix’s success in treating additional strains of human papillomavirus.