Finally, a deal has been reached on the price of the meningococcal B vaccine, Bexsero, and the life-saving vaccine will become part of national childhood immunization schedule in the United Kingdom. The...

In response to a large-scale measles outbreak, Kyrgyzstan will initiate a mass measles vaccination campaign on 16 March 2015, targeting over 2 million people aged 1–20 years in the country. The outbreak,...

The number of imported, or travel-associated chikungunya cases in the United Kingdom has increased 12-fold from 2013 to 2014, according to new data from Public Health England. In 2013, England, Wales...

Mrs Unis Spicy Foods has recalled batches of its modified atmosphere packed products because of concerns about procedures to control Clostridium botulinum. The FSA has issued a Product Recall...

Just a month after Kosovo health officials declared a tularemia outbreak,  neighboring country, Macedonia has started reporting cases of the bacterial infection in several areas, according to a Focus...

In response to a recent announcement by the UK Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunization (JCVI), the Meningitis Research Foundation welcomed the news that the government has accepted the JCVIs recommendation...

The number of scarlet fever cases in England continues to skyrocket as numbers this season have doubled the same period last year, according to Public Health England (PHE) officials. PHE says this is...

The UK Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunization (JCVI) is advising teens, ages 14-18, to be offered the meningitis group W (MenW) vaccine in light of increasing numbers of cases reported in recent...

In a follow-up to a report yesterday concerning a UK military healthcare worker in Sierra Leone who contracted the Ebola virus, Development Secretary Justine Greening in an update to the House of Commons...

British health officials have confirmed that a UK military healthcare worker in Sierra Leone has contracted Ebola Virus Disease(EVD). A Public Health England spokesperson said, “We can confirm...