Tag: UKHSA
London at risk of measles outbreaks, reveals UKHSA
New data published by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has revealed that London is potentially at risk of a measles resurgence.
UKHSA modelling...
Health and Social Care Committee urges secretary of health to consider extension of mpox vaccination programme
Health and Social Care Committee has urged the Secretary for State of Health and Social Care to ‘consider extending the mpox (monkeypox) vaccination programme’.
The...
UK project plans to expand genomic sequencing from COVID to flu
Genomic sequencing allowed the world to track new coronavirus variants throughout the pandemic. Now British researchers plan to use it to better understand a...
Nasal flu vaccine may help reduce cases of group A strep, suggests UKHSA
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has suggested that the Live Attenuated Influenza Vaccine (LAIV) vaccine that offers protection to children against flu may...
UKHSA says mistakes at COVID testing lab may have led to deaths of 20 people last year
The UK's Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said mistakes at a testing laboratory led to misreporting of tens of thousands of positive COVID-19 cases as...
Children aged 1 to 9 in London to be offered polio vaccine as further poliovirus detected in sewage
A polio vaccine booster campaign is being launched for almost a million children in London aged between 1 and 9 after confirmation that poliovirus...