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“Sewage surveillance: a distinct field of science, and an essential tool for pandemic preparedness”

Public health surveillance has traditionally focused on actual cases, either retrospectively through passive surveillance or prospectively through active surveillance. While sewage surveillance has historically...

Mpox: a dangerous game of clades and vaccine inequity

The monkeypox virus (MPXV) was discovered in 1958, following two outbreaks of a pox-like disease in colonies of monkeys kept for research purposes. Despite...

Avian Influenza, a global threat

The COVID-19 pandemic revealed our society's vulnerability to a novel pathogen capable of causing a potentially devastating pandemic. Accordingly, global preparedness is essential. Since November...

Vaccine against Chikungunya: good news, a vaccine has been aproved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the European Medicines Agency (EMA)

Recently, a phase 3 clinical trial published at The Lancet showed high immunogenicity and good safety profile of a one shot of a live...

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