Advancing Vaccine Strategies Against Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers: Innovation and Challenges
A special issue of Vaccines (ISSN 2076-393X). This special issue belongs to the section "Vaccines against Tropical and other Infectious Diseases".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2026 | Viewed by 45
Special Issue Editors
Interests: arboviruses; hemorrhagic fever; viral diseases
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers (VHFs) represent a significant global health threat, causing severe outbreaks with high morbidity and mortality rates. Infections like Ebola, Marburg, Lassa fever, Crimean-–ongo hemorrhagic fever, and Rift Valley fever remain major public health concerns worldwide, with most of them listed by WHO as priority pathogens with PHEIC potential.
Despite ongoing research efforts, effective and widely accessible vaccines remain limited for many of these diseases, and thus development of both preventive and therapeutic vaccines is a top priority for global health security in the years to come.
As Guest Editors, we are pleased to invite you to contribute to the Special Issue “Advancing Vaccine Strategies Against Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers: Innovation and Challenges” in Vaccines (MDPI).
This collection aims to collate cutting-edge research and comprehensive reviews on the latest developments in vaccine design, immunological responses, and clinical trials, as well as animal trials and real-world implementation strategies for VHFs.
To this end, this Special Issue welcomes original research articles and reviews on topics including, but not limited to, the following:
- Novel vaccine platforms (e.g., mRNA, viral vector, protein subunit) for VHFs;
- Advances in antigen design and immunogenicity studies;
- Preclinical and clinical evaluation of VHF vaccines;
- Immune correlates of protection and long-term immunity;
- Challenges in vaccine deployment, accessibility, and global distribution;
- Therapeutic vaccines.
We look forward to your valuable contributions to advance this critical field of research.
Dr. Massimo Spedicato
Dr. Stuart David Dowall
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- viral hemorrhagic fevers
- vaccines
- Flaviviridae
- Arenaviridae
- Bunyaviridae
- Filoviridae
- Nairoviridae
- Paramyxoviridae
- Phenuiviridae
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