A mysterious illness causing fevers and headaches and leading to rapid development of acute encephalitis (within a couple of weeks of symptom onset), caused an outbreak of nearly 300 reported cases and over 100 fatalities ...
Apr 20, 2023
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Anna Durbin was in Brazil in December 2015 when the Zika virus erupted in the country's northeast. Although she'd flown to São Paulo to work on a dengue vaccine, Durbin returned to Baltimore preoccupied with Zika.
Mar 15, 2023
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A clinical trial testing a freeze-dried, temperature-stable experimental tuberculosis (TB) vaccine in healthy adults found that it was safe and stimulated both antibodies and responses from the cellular arm of the immune ...
Mar 6, 2023
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It has been more than 100 years since the first and only tuberculosis (TB) vaccine—the Bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG) vaccine—was used for the first time medically in 1921. With an estimated 1.6 million people dying ...
Feb 15, 2023
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Contrary to the widely shared popular belief, the primary purpose of current vaccines against COVID-19 is solely to protect against serious forms of the disease in order to prevent the risk of hospitalizations and death… ...
Feb 14, 2023
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A newly published paper in The Lancet shows that an experimental vaccine against Marburg virus (MARV) was safe and induced an immune response in a small, first-in-human clinical trial. The vaccine, developed by researchers ...
Jan 30, 2023
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Uganda on Thursday received its first shipment of trial vaccines against a strain of Ebola that has claimed dozens of lives, amid cautious optimism the outbreak could soon be over.
Dec 8, 2022
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In 2021, a group of scientists led by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian reported that the Moderna mRNA vaccine and a protein-based vaccine candidate ...
Dec 1, 2022
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Moderna announced Monday that its updated booster shot triggers strong antibody responses against three omicron subvariants.
Nov 15, 2022
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A team of international scientists from Griffith University and the University of Alberta are about to start human clinical trials for a strep A vaccine they hope will induce long-lasting immunity against the deadly pathogen ...
Nov 10, 2022
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