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This week is a good week for vaccines. Indeed it is a good week for society, at least in Europe, for we have just got word that the Euro...

Two Jewish men in New York (Flickr by Kynan Tait). The site of 2009/10's near-4,000 large mumps outbreak It started during the midd...

Plaque outside Antoni van Leeuwenhoek's old house in Delft The dark age of microbiology existed in the years preceding  Antoni van...

Last Tuesday a man, flying into Glasgow, Scotland from Dubai, was admitted to the local hospital with a very rare disease in these parts - i...

 How would you like to adventure inside a tunnel that is 15 metres in length, 12 metres wide and in parts only 3.5 metres tall? Doesn't ...

I doubt you have missed the news but a new virus that infects (and has  so far killed one person) has just been discovered in the last few ...

Last week there was a report in PLoS One documenting the first scientific description (pictures, morphology, behaviour and even genetics) ...

Watch this video. Watch it now. It goes alongside that of the late Steve Jobs talking at Stanford but this time it is Neil Gaiman. And th...

I have been too busy to go into this in much detail but I'm wondering whether anyone had any ideas as to why this virus (cedar virus - a...

Lambs, don't worry. I's not all that bad. I wrote back in February  this year (2012) of a worrying outbreak of disease spreadin...