Vaccine

The US President said the country is pouring resources into expediting vaccine trials and getting ready to quickly produce and distribute the vaccine once it's been developed.

We might get lucky with a vaccine, our political editor writes, but at the moment it’s the stark and worrying prediction from the UK's Chief Medical Officer that could be the path that we are all forced to follow - two metres apart, of course.

As coronavirus vaccine trials begin in the UK and get the green light in Germany, the World Health Organization warns other diseases must not be neglected.

The UK's health minister Matt Hancock said human trials for a COVID-19 vaccine would begin this week.

Global problems, like the current COVID-19 crisis and the climate emergency, do not respect borders. Solutions to these issues are most likely to come when people coordinate their efforts across sectors, cultures and national boundaries, and not succumb to the short-sightedness views of populism.

Countries that apply mandatory tuberculosis vaccination policies have been found to have fewer COVID-19 deaths, a new study has found.

New research by the Economist Intelligence Unit has identified severe weaknesses in countries’ abilities to prevent, detect and respond to significant disease outbreaks.

Researchers said on Wednesday a vaccination against HPV is having a major impact on stopping infections and should significantly reduce cases of the disease within a decade.

It is the first rabies-related human death in Norway for more than 200 years, according to the Norwegian Institute of Public Health.

Will Germany be one of them?

Nearly half of Europeans wrongly believe vaccines often cause serious side-effects, according to a poll that comes amid a global rise in measles.

Massimiliano Fedriga, a member of the far-right League party, who opposed mandatory vaccination of children is hospitalised with chicken pox.

There's lots of talk about how to protect children from the highly contagious virus, but adults with measles are 10 times more likely to be hospitalized.

Cases of measles are on the rise, 159 cases have been reported in 10 states.

Who are the most vaccine-sceptic countries in the EU?

The World Health Organization has sounded the alarm about measles in Europe. But in which countries is the outbreak worst?

Critics say Italy's move to row back on making 10 vaccines mandatory for schoolchildren will take the country back to the Middle Ages. But what do people on the other side of the argument think and why does Italy have a growing anti-vaccine movement?