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Luciano Moreira and Henrik Salje discuss a new article in The Lancet Infectious Diseases describing the use of the Wolbachia bacteria to control the spread of mosquito-borne dengue and chikungunya in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.Read the full article:Estimating the effect of the wMel release programme on the incidence of dengue and chikungunya in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Richard Maude discusses a new article in The Lancet Infectious Diseases that assesses the efficacy of malaria chemoprophylaxis among forest goers in Cambodia.Read the full article:Antimalarial chemoprophylaxis for forest goers in southeast Asia

Ben Cowling discusses a new article in The Lancet Infectious Diseases describing the protection that vaccines are providing against COVID-19 in Hong Kong.Read the full article:Vaccine effectiveness of one, two, and three doses of BNT162b2 and CoronaVac against COVID-19 in Hong Kong

Hugh Adler discusses a new article in The Lancet Infectious Diseases describing the management and the clinical features for seven patients with monkeypox hospitalised in the UK between 2018 and 2021.Read the full article:Clinical features and management of human monkeypox: a retrospective observational study in the UK

Prof Beate Kampmann, Dr Karen Keddy, and Prof Peter Ghazal discuss a new cross-journal Series in The Lancet Infectious Diseases and EBioMedicine addressing the potential for and challenge of applying big data to childhood infectious diseases in LMICs.Read the full Series:https://www.thelancet.com/series/big-data-childhood-infections-LMICs 

A new article highlights how changing immunity profiles motivate the need for better responses to outbreaks of polio in Africa.Read the full article:https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(21)00453-9/fulltext

Paul Chapman and colleagues presents the results of an innovative trial assessing the safety of vaccinating healthy volunteers with attenuated Necator americanus hookworm larvae. Read the full article:https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(21)00153-5/fulltext

Josep Llibre discusses a trial on the impact of same-day testing for SARS-CoV-2 infection before a concert on new COVID-19 cases in Barcelona, Spain.Read the full article:https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(21)00268-1/fulltext

Yap Boum (MSF) discusses his study done in Cameroon, which developed a promising testing strategy for COVID-19 to optimise the available resources.Read the full article:https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(21)00132-8/fulltext

Two studies in The Lancet Infectious Diseases describe how the spread of resistance to both dihydroartemisinin and piperaquine is compromising malaria therapy in South-East Asia