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Chikungunya
Vaccination against chikungunya - a systematic review on the immunogenicity, tolerability, and safety of the live-attenuated vaccine (LAV) Ixchiq and the virus like particle (VLP) vaccine Vimkunya
Infections with the chikungunya virus are increasingly reported due to many reasons including climate change. Two vaccines against chikungunya have recently been approved in Europe, the live-attenuated vaccine (LAV) Ixchiq and the virus like particle (VLP) vaccine Vimkunya. However, no systematic review...
Typhoid
Complications and mortality of typhoid fever: an updated global systematic review and meta-analysis
Updated estimates of the prevalence of complications and case-fatality ratio (CFR) among patients with typhoid fever are needed to inform typhoid fever prevention and control. To support country-level decisions on typhoid prevention and control with contemporary estimates of morbidity and mortality,...
Yellow Fever
Lentiviral vector-based T-cell vaccines against Zika and yellow fever viruses
Zika and yellow fever flaviviruses induce important human diseases, mainly in tropical regions. Zika virus is an emerging pathogen that has recently spread to new geographic areas, while yellow fever virus, effectively controlled in the past, has recently re-emerged and caused outbreaks in endemic regions....
Zika
Zika virus infection in a German traveller to the Maldives, August 2025
Zika virus (ZIKV) is a neurotropic flavivirus associated with generally mild disease but the risk of congenital abnormalities when contracted during pregnancy. Reports from the Maldives are rare. We describe a ZIKV infection in a traveller returning from the Maldives in August 2025, including clinical...
Typhoid
Shifting targets: typhoid's transformation from an environmental to a vaccine-preventable disease, 1940–2019
160 years after the discovery of its waterborne transmission and 120 years after the development of the first-generation of vaccines, typhoid fever remains a major health threat globally. In this Historical Review, we use WHO's Institutional Repository for Information Sharing to examine changes in typhoid...
