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Why this year’s flu vaccine includes a strain that went ‘extinct’
As flu season approaches, Australians will be vaccinated against an influenza strain that hasn't been detected in years.Influenza vaccines are given - and generally updated - each year to protect against the most common strains of the virus. The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Australian Influenza Vaccine Committee (AIVC) have recommended that one strain
How to access the new RSV vaccine, and how much will it cost? Your questions answered
News·Ask CBC NewsThis year, for the first time, a vaccine is available to help protect older adults against RSV, which is like the common cold for some but can also lead to respiratory infection and hospitalization. We answered some of your questions about the RSV vaccine and how to access it.Also: Why are some vaccines
Q&A: The case of the missing Lyme vaccine
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain High summer is here, but many heading to forests and fields reach not for shorts and a T-shirt, but long sleeves, pants, and a shot of bug spray, hoping to keep a threat at bay: the deer ticks that carry Lyme disease. Borrelia burgdorferi, the Lyme disease-causing bacterium transmitted by tick
An RSV Vaccine Was Approved for What Group?
Quizzes > Weekly News Quiz — You passed medical training, now see if you can pass our weekly quiz by MedPage Today Staff May 6, 2023 The 24-hour news cycle is just as important to medicine as it is to politics, finance, or sports. At MedPage Today, new information is posted daily, but keeping up
Malaria vaccine plays critical role in turning the tide on malaria in Ghana
Accra – While Ghanaian mother Charity Kesewaa Damoah has nursed her eight-year-old son through several debilitating bouts of malaria, his 14-month-old brother, John, is living proof of the benefits of the first malaria vaccine recommended to prevent the disease in children, she believes. Not once, since he was first inoculated at six months of age
News at a glance: HIV vaccine failure, AI meteorite detective, and the Doomsday Clock
GEOLOGYAI helps find missed meteorites Antarctica is famously good at preserving meteorites, burying the rocks in snow and ice until they resurface. They often become concentrated in regions of compacted “blue” ice that make up about 1% of the Antarctic surface. But finding the meteorites within those tracts has been an ad hoc affair. Now
Freetown, 25 January 2023 - The COVID-19 Vaccine Delivery Partnership, (CoVDP), have today handed over vehicles including motorbikes and computers worth over USD$2.8 million to support Government of Sierra Leone’s COVID-19 vaccine deployment. CoVDP is a joint venture of the Global Alliance for Vaccine Initiative (Gavi), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the World
Two Doses of Mpox Vaccine Offered Strong Protection
Infectious Disease > General Infectious Disease — At-risk people receiving both doses were 10 times less likely to be infected vs the unvaccinated by Ingrid Hein, Staff Writer, MedPage Today December 9, 2022 One or two doses of the Jynneos vaccine offered strong protection against infection from monkeypox, or mpox, compared with no vaccination at
Vaccine expected to induce strong immune responses against 2022 monkeypox virus, research shows
The figure shows that, for two example proteins that are targeted by VACV-vaccine-induced antibodies, the 2022 monkeypox virus (MPXV-2022) does not comprise any new mutations relative to the previously observed monkeypox virus (MPXV-CB). Credit: HKUST & UoM New research has suggested that recommended vaccinia virus (VACV)-based vaccines will mount a robust immune response against the
SARS-CoV-2 and vaccine uptake among First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples in urban areas
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Despite prioritizing Indigenous populations for SARS-CoV-2 vaccinations, vaccine uptake was low among First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples in Toronto and London, Ontario, according to new research published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). As more than half of Indigenous Peoples in Canada live in urban areas, it is critical to…