Vaccine success
A vaccine against rotavirus, which kills 500,000 children each year, could halve the number of infections, trials in Africa and Asia have shown. In Asia, vaccine recipients halved their chances of infection compared with those given a placebo, while in Africa infections were reduced by more than a third (The Lancet, .
Flu pandemic is over
The world is no longer experiencing a global influenza pandemic, says a World Health Organization committee, which assessed reports from several countries experiencing H1N1 flu. Although we are now entering a “post-pandemic period”, the H1N1 virus is…
