During the COVID-19 pandemic, estimating the total deaths averted by vaccination has been of great public health interest. Instead of estimating total deaths averted by vaccination among both vaccinat...

Clade I mpox continues to spread in Central Africa with no sign of abating,1 however very few doses of vaccine have been deployed. Mpox vaccination strategies using either of the licenced vaccines, MV...

Sampling in animal populations to detect novel viruses before they infect humans has been a major activity justified by several considerations, notably by the idea that finding such viruses will stimu...

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Author summary Vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 has played a key role during the COVID-19 pandemic to lower transmission rates and reduce the number of severe cases. This is due to a vaccine-induced ris...

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To develop effective HIV prevention strategies that can guide public health policy it is important to identify the main sources of infection in HIV prevention studies. Accordingly, we devised a statis...

According to Marc Lipsitch, professor of epidemiology at Harvard Chan School, the risks of infectious disease "gain-of-function" research outweigh the potential benefits—which aren’t as significant as...