The employee of a Dutch vaccine manufacturer, who was infected with the polio virus in early April, is no longer carrying the virus.

The results of blood analysis show that measured blood values correspond well with the calculated values in an earlier study in 2016 on the emission of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) by DuPont/Chemo

HPV vaccination against cervical cancer also appears to protect against other forms of cancer that can be caused by HPV.

More knowledge is required about the extent to which GenX substances accumulate in fish.

Meningococcal disease is a very serious infectious disease that can cause meningitis or blood poisoning. Children are immunised against meningococcal serogroup C at 14 months.

Early April, a sealed room at a vaccine manufacturer was the site of an incident. Two employees were exposed to the polio virus.

The Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, RIVM has described building blocks for a definition of microplastics.

From 1 September, Jacco Wallinga will hold the chair in Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases at the department of Medical Statistics and Bio-informatics of the Leiden University Medical Ce

Current pharmaceutical legislation does not impose any legal constraints on the use of alternatives to animal testing, but neither does it actively encourage the use of these alternatives.

Prof Jaap van Dissel is appointed as Director of the RIVM Centre for Infectious Disease Control. He takes up the post on 15 August and succeeds Prof.