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Trials show both new vaccines raise protective antibody levels in almost everyone. The unsettled question is the live-attenuated shot's safety in the older adults most likely to be hospitalised.
Guangdong recorded 25,335 local cases in 2025 — 98% of everything China has ever reported. Genomic analysis finds every Chinese outbreak lineage matching a recent import.
The agency stops short of calling 2025 a global surge. Its own regional tables show why: the Americas and the Indian Ocean drove the total while the Philippines and Malaysia reported fewer cases than last year.