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Health minister says government ‘did not authorize’ Danish-led hepatitis B trial in babies backed by RFK Jr

Is it a lab leak? Is it a bioweapon? Is it even plague? Who knows! But if it was a lab leak, Darya Shipilova didn’t know about it.

Nairobi - To support the Ministry of Health’s response to Kenya’s first confirmed imported case of Bundibugyo virus disease, the World Health Organization (WHO) has this week handed over essential med...

Russia’s silence over the death of a lab worker underlines that pandemic preparedness amounts to nothing if information on threats is withheld, says public health expert Devi Sridhar

Hackers target fridges across Intermarché, E.Leclerc, and Super U stores, reportedly causing millions of euros in food losses

Polen sieht russische Geheimdienste hinter dem Brand einer Starlink-Station, die auch das ukrainische Militär mit Internet versorgt. In Deutschland wurden zwei türkische Staatsbürger als Verdächtige f...

Unverified rumours swirl around the death of a Siberian laboratory technician. Nature talks to a biosecurity specialist to unpack the fallout.

On 2 October 2026, WHO became aware through media reports of the death of an employee of the Irkutsk Antiplague Research Institute (APRI) of Siberia and the Far East, the Russian Federation. According...

This issue of the Communicable disease threats report (CDTR) covers the period 3 - 9October 2026, and includes updates on respiratory virus epidemiology in the EU/EEA, pneumonia of unknown aetiology,…

The Gulf of Finland is protected by Swedes now.

Track biological threats, share vital information, and collaborate on solutions for community protection and preparedness.

Between July and October 2024, 216 cases with genetically related Salmonella Blockley sequence type 52 were identified in France (n = 56), Germany (n = 30), the United Kingdom (UK) (n = 129) and the U...

A new online database catalogues the unique calls made by various groups of orcas on the West Coast, making the audio available to anyone.

Adding social responsibility to technical training prepares students to protect the public good

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BACKGROUND The Netherlands has experienced a decline in routine childhood vaccination uptake during and after the COVID-19 pandemic, with emerging evidence of reduced parental vaccine confidence. AIM ...

Recommended dose of hepatitis B vaccine will be withheld from thousands of newborns by Danish researchers

Recommended dose of hepatitis B vaccine will be withheld from thousands of newborns by Danish researchers

“It’s a wholly unethical trial, and it shouldn’t be allowed,” says Dr. Paul Offit of Guinea-Bissau study