The objective of this Personal View is to compare transmissibility, hospitalisation, and mortality
rates for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) with those of …

We performed a quantitative review of 31 vaccine antibody response studies conducted from
1986 to 2002 and compared antibody responses to influenza vaccine in groups of elderly …

Unsafe injections are suspected to occur routinely in developing countries. We carried out a
literature review to quantify the prevalence of unsafe injections and to assess the disease …

Almost all deaths related to current influenza epidemics occur among the elderly. However,
mortality was greatest among the young during the 1918–1919 pandemic. This study …

Background Data on global trends in resistance to antituberculosis drugs are lacking.
Methods We expanded the survey conducted by the World Health Organization and the …

Quantifying long-range dissemination of infectious diseases is a key issue in their dynamics
and control. Here, we use influenza-related mortality data to analyze the between-state …

… We validated our method of estimating excess mortality by comparing our results with those
obtained with a method developed by Simonsen et al. In that model, the choice of months for …

Objective. —To evaluate recent trends in infectious diseases mortality in the United States.
Design. —Descriptive study of infectious disease mortality, classifyingInternational …

OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to assess the impact of recent influenza epidemics
on mortality in the United States and to develop an index for comparing the severity of …

This study sought to quantify influenza-related serious morbidity in pregnant women, as
measured by hospitalizations for or death from selected acute cardiopulmonary conditions …