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Learn about the latest news and developments related to infectious diseases — including Marburg, hepatitis C, polio, Candida auris, polio, Covid-19 and more — and how they’re caused, spread and treated.

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In the Lab Andrew Joseph

To protect chickens from bird flu, researchers try to CRISPR in immunity

Health Helen Branswell

Access to new tools to combat RSV in babies likely to prove challenging

Health Helen Branswell

FDA expert panel endorses idea of removing a component from flu vaccine

First Opinion David Scales, Sara Gorman and Kathleen Hall Jamieson

How headlines about the RSV antibody injection could cloud parents’ decision-making

Health Annalisa Merelli

WHO recommends second malaria vaccine, hoping to address supply issues

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

STAT Plus: J&J agrees not to enforce patents on a key tuberculosis drug in dozens of poor countries

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

STAT Plus: Unitaid slams J&J over pricing and patents for a tuberculosis drug

Health Helen Branswell

WHO recommends dropping component of many flu vaccines

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Health Felice J. Freyer — Boston Globe

STAT Plus: Northeastern among sites chosen by CDC to establish ‘National Weather Service’ for infectious disease

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

STAT Plus: After a high-profile pressure campaign, Cepheid agrees to sell a TB test at cost

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Pharmalot Ed Silverman

STAT Plus: South Africa investigates Johnson & Johnson over ‘excessive pricing’ for its TB drug

Health Helen Branswell

Polio transmission was supposed to end by 2023. A new report explains why it won’t.

Pharmalot Lizzy Lawrence and Ed Silverman

STAT Plus: Novelist John Green launches attack on Cepheid over the price of its TB test

Health Helen Branswell

Group behind ProMED fires three top moderators amid strike

Health Andrew Joseph

Vaccine experts urge more inclusivity in clinical trials

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

STAT Plus: J&J cuts the price of its lifesaving TB pill by more than half for many low- and middle-income countries

Health Helen Branswell

ProMED issues ultimatum to striking moderators, as questions about site’s future persist

Health Helen Branswell

U.S. health officials lay out plans to cope with respiratory virus season

Health Helen Branswell

CDC says it’s too soon to assess risk posed by new Covid subvariant

Health Helen Branswell

Covid-19, a disease with tricks up its sleeve, hasn’t fallen into a seasonal pattern — yet

First Opinion Andrea Maderal

I’m a doctor who specializes in treating leprosy. Here’s what I want you to know

Health Helen Branswell

FDA approves Pfizer’s RSV vaccine designed to protect newborns by immunizing parent

Health Helen Branswell

ProMED sees offers of support, but its future remains unclear

Pharmalot Ed Silverman

STAT Plus: ViiV Healthcare and Doctors Without Borders tussle over contract terms for an HIV drug

In the Lab Andrew Joseph

Bird flu researchers turn to Finland’s mink farms, tracking a virus with pandemic potential

Health Lizzy Lawrence

STAT Plus: Tuberculosis outbreak tied to bone grafts underscores shortcomings of testing

Health Simar Bajaj and Abdullahi Tsanni

Meet the scientists trying to stop the next global pandemic from starting in Africa

Health Betsy Ladyzhets

‘Underwhelming’: NIH trials fail to test meaningful long Covid treatments — after 2.5 years and $1 billion

First Opinion Abdullahi Tsanni

I saw firsthand in Nigeria that drugs alone can’t win the war against tuberculosis