infectious diseases

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Johnson & Johnson and Sanofi's vaccine for preventing invasive disease caused by E coli looks all but defunct after they abandon a phase 3 trial.

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Hospitals should expand and speed up testing of people hospitalised with influenza to see if they are suffering from bird flu, says CDC.

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A man in Louisiana has become the first recorded fatality in the US attributed to the H5N1 strain of bird flu.

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The NHS is dealing with a major rise in influenza cases, with the number of hospitalised patients quadrupling to around 5,000 ahead of the New Year.

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Sanofi has moved ahead with plans to challenge Pfizer and MSD for a piece of the market for pneumococcal vaccines.

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Another clinical trial has found that SIGA Technologies' antiviral drug TPOXX (tecovirimat) is ineffective as a treatment for mpox.