Weekly releases (1997–2007) - Volume 8, Issue 34, 19 August 2004

The United Kingdom National Health Service recently announced changes to the national childhood immunisation programme with a shift from the use of live oral polio vaccine to inactivated polio vaccine

An outbreak of avian influenza in humans in Vietnam, which has caused at least three deaths, was reported by the World Health Organization last week

Nine patients on an orthopaedic ward in a hospital in Ireland, were recently found to have been infected or colonised with vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus

Results of a recently published study into the protective efficacy of the Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine over time suggest that protection against tuberculosis may persist for several decades