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Recent reporting, analysis and explainers from the Epidemiology desk.
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A Global Burden of Disease analysis estimates that pertussis incidence and age-standardized mortality declined between 1990 and 2023. Its modeled estimates show that the highest population-adjusted mortality risk remained among infants aged 1–5 months.
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Researchers from the UK Health Security Agency and the University of Oxford say genetic material acquired from other bacteria may have made the strain behind a deadly Kent MenB outbreak unusually effective at causing severe disease. The same changes may also help explain why the strain has not continued to spread widely.