Got food poisoning? The cause might be bacterial spores, en extremely hardy survival form of bacteria, a nightmare for health care and the food industry and an enigma for scientists. Spore-forming bacteria, present almost everywhere in our environment, can also cause serious infectious diseases, such as tetanus, anthrax, and botulism. Now researchers from Lund University [...]

Levels of childhood immunisation coverage for the three-dose diphtheria, tetanus, and whooping cough (pertussis) are significantly lower than reported by individual nations or WHO/UNICEF estimates. In this era of target-oriented dispersal of funds for global initiatives, there is an urgent need for independent monitoring of health indicators which would be open to scrutiny. These are [...]

A new study by researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Vanderbilt University suggests that protecting infants from a common, highly contagious and even deadly disease may be as easy as administering a routine vaccine two weeks earlier than it is typically given.