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These are the news published by RKI in English.
In 2025, the Secretariat of the International Association of National Public Health Institutes (IANPHI) will move to the Robert Koch Institute, Germany.
A novel mathematical model developed under the lead of RKI researchers estimates how many individuals are susceptible to different SARS-CoV-2 variants in a particular region at a given time.
Since 1 January 2025, the EU Reference Laboratory for Public Health in the field of “High-risk, emerging and zoonotic bacterial pathogens” (EURL-PH-HEZB) has started its activities.
On the occasion of the international AIDS conference at the end of July in Munich, the Robert Koch Institute has released new Key Data and Trends for the federal states and Germany, as well as a comprehensive analysis of the HIV/AIDS situation in Germany.
The RKI is a cooperation partner of the new interdisciplinary PhD programme Global Health in Berlin, which starts in October 2024.
A research team led by the RKI has now shown that the life expectancy gap between Germany’s deprived and affluent regions is wider today than it was 20 years ago—and has investigated for the first time which causes of death are behind this socioeconomic life expectancy gap.
An international research team led by RKI and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has shown for the first time that a specific inflammatory immune response is required to control Marburg virus in Egyptian fruit bats.
An international team lead by scientists from RKI have shown experimentally how Ebola virus replicates and transmits in Angolan free-tailed bats which are common in Sub-Saharan Africa.
19.7 million is the number of visits to the doctor due to an acute respiratory infection since the start of the current season, from the 40th week (beginning of October) up to and including the 52nd week, in Germany.
