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This article comments on the importance of improving surveillance and doing quickly research on vaccine safety to maintain public trust.

​South Africa’s influenza surveillance report – compiled on the 23rd June 2011

This paper and review from a Singapore-based group compared results obtained for estimating rates of new infections during the 2009 pandemic. They derived rates from paired specimens from the same patient (serum cohort approach), cross-sectional serological surveys, rates of unconfirmed syndromic influenza-like-illness (ILI) obtained from primary care physicians in sentinel general practices, and combined clinical repos with laboratory confirmed samples.

Two official evaluations have been made by the national Ministry of Health of Spain of their country’s response to the 2009 influenza pandemic. The reviews focused on two particular topics - Surveillance and Vaccines and Antivirals.

In a recent scientific article (Udwadia, F et al. Clin. Infect. Dis. 2011, Dec 21, Eprint) four cases of so-called total drug resistant tuberculosis (TB) were reported from India.

This article presents the system and the results of the first season of operation in 2010/11.

United States Advisory Board changes its position. New US government guidance on handling dual use research in the life sciences

The WHO recommendations are in line with the currently circulating viruses in the southern hemisphere.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has agreed on the recommended composition of the trivalent influenza

​​Today ECDC publishes its risk assessment on the 2012/13 seasonal influenza epidemics in Europe. Epidemics started earlier than in the previous season and western Europe and Scandinavia were the first affected areas.