In its human host, the spread of SARS-CoV-2 has followed unusually volatile and seemingly
unpredictable patterns that are often driven by statistical extremes, such as superspreading …

We say this quite deliberately as medical doctors on the staff of the World Health
Organisation, of the Maryland department of health and mental hygiene, of universities, and …

EDITOR—Aggarwal and Ranjan highlighted the global burden of hepatitis B and say that
vaccination is the mainstay of prevention. 1 They also describe the vaccination's lifelong …

Changes to the UK's childhood vaccination schedule over the past three decades have seen
both a wider range of vaccines offered and overall improvements in vaccine coverage. In …

In the third decade of the HIV pandemic the number of infected individuals continues to
increase. An estimated 38 million people worldwide, including over 2 million children, are …

WHO recommends that hepatitis B virus should be included in childhood vaccination
programmes. Pierre Van Damme and colleagues argue that universal immunisation is …

Current shortages of the hepatitis B virus vaccine have created media interest, including in
The BMJ. 1 Hepatitis B should make headlines; an estimated 250 million people are …

EDITOR—The proposed UK guidelines for severe childhood malaria are an excellent
attempt to improve the care of children with severe imported malaria, 1 but we are …

When in 1955 the malariologist Paul Russell predicted without hesitation the imminent end
of malaria, 1 little could he have imagined that half a century later malaria would still be one …

Background Malaria remains a leading global health problem that requires the improved
use of existing interventions and the accelerated development of new control methods. We …