✨ Wow! What a fantastic public health success story: 🇩🇪 Germany has seen a 55% drop in infants hospitalized with RSV since the rollout of the new RSV immunization. 👶 💉 Read our full analysis in the journal of the German Medical Association. 👉 doi.org/10.3238/arzt... @rki.de @bmg-bund.bsky.social

Together with colleagues, we report 2 #diphtheria sub-clusters with autochthonous cases in 🇩🇪 and 🇵🇱 within a Corynebacterium diphtheriae ST-574 outbreak (2022-2025). Strengthening immunisation, improving wound care, enhancing international surveillance are key to protecting vulnerable populations. ⬇️

🚨 Global immunization is under threat. Here's why we should invest in disease surveillance and immunization monitoring so that cutbacks to immunization programmes don't go unnoticed. 👉 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... @who.int @unicef.org @rki.de @merusheel.bsky.social #IA2030 #Vaccineswork

'The more people are vaccinated against diphtheria the easier it is to stop outbreaks and to prevent future ones.' Report on the first #outbreak of respiratory #diphtheria caused by Corynebacterium diphtheriae with local transmission in Germany in 40 years #EpiSky #IDSky #MedSky #PublicHealth 🦠🧪