With regard to the current SARS-CoV-2 pandemic situation, we fully support the idea of implementing controlled clinical trials for BCG vaccination, as already started by Curtis et al. [12]. Only well-controlled clinical trials may prove a benefit of this old vaccine that was developed by the...
Objectives To describe the results of a systematic review for new-onset and relapsed liver disease following COVID-19 vaccination. Methods For this systematic review, we searched Proquest, Medline, Embase, PubMed, CINAHL, Wiley online library, Scopus and Nature through the Preferred Reporting Items ...
A multifaceted approach for human rabies eradication that involves government support, disease awareness, vaccination of at‑risk human populations and, most importantly, dog rabies control is necessary to achieve the WHO goal of reducing the number of cases of dog-mediated human rabies to zero by...
In addition to avoiding recognition by vaccine-induced immunity, variants have also become less susceptible to neutralizing monoclonal antibodies (nMAbs). The N501Y change in the B.1.1.7 variant, for example, is sufficient to almost ablate the activity of several nMAbs, and the South African tea...
Since tick-borne encephalitis, yellow fever, and Japanese encephalitis are solely vector-borne diseases, they should only be considered when athletes live or travel to the endemic areas, i.e. Eastern, Central and Northern Europe, Northern China, Mongolia, and the Russian Federation for tick-borne...
The mandatory vaccines are administered by the International Health Regulations; e.g., yellow fever vaccination is prescribed for two main reasons: first, to protect travellers in areas where there is a risk of infection and, second, to prevent the occurrence of imported infection cases from ...