Category: Vaccine Headlines
FDA advisory panel recommends a streamlined flu vaccine for next fall
STAT When Americans line up for flu vaccines next fall, they will almost certainly be getting vaccines that no longer contain protection against a family of flu viruses that appears to be extinct. Experts who advise the Food and Drug Administration on vaccine-related issues voted unanimously on Tuesday to recommend that the FDA approve trivalent flu […]
Mar 5, 2024
Man Receives Hundreds Of Covid-19 Vaccines
Forbes Scientists have studied the immune system of a man in Germany who claims to have received 217 Covid-19 vaccines. The researchers were concerned that the man’s immune system might have become exhausted with such frequent and numerous challenges with vaccines against the same virus, but actually found the opposite. Their analysis published in the […]
Mar 5, 2024
CDC may recommend a spring Covid booster for some groups
NBC People who are most vulnerable to Covid complications, such as older people and those with weak immune systems, may be able to get another dose for protection. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is considering whether to recommend yet another Covid booster shot this spring, especially for people most at risk for severe […]
Feb 20, 2024
Ebola Vaccine Given Post-Infection Protects Against Death
MedPageToday Study reinforces importance of vaccinating at-risk groups as early as possible, authors say, Vaccination with the Ebola Zaire vaccine (rVSVΔG-ZEBOV-GP; Ervebo) was associated with a significantly lower risk of death in patients with confirmed Ebola disease, even for those vaccinated shortly after exposure to the virus, a retrospective analysis found. Among patients admitted to […]
Feb 13, 2024
One arm or two? How you get vaccinated may make a difference
Seattle Times If you’ve presented the same arm for every dose of a particular vaccine, you may want to reconsider. Alternating arms may produce a more powerful immune response, a new study suggests. The researchers studied responses to the first two doses of COVID-19 vaccines. Those who alternated arms showed a small increase in immunity […]
Feb 6, 2024
Cameroon starts world-first malaria mass vaccine rollout
BBC Video The world’s first routine vaccine programme against malaria has started in Cameroon, in a move projected to save thousands of children’s lives across Africa. The symbolic first jab was given to a baby girl named Daniella at a health facility near Yaoundé on Monday. Every year 600,000 people die of malaria in Africa, […]
Jan 23, 2024
Scientists Launch First Human Vaccine Trials For Deadly Nipah Virus
Forbes The University of Oxford announcedThursday that it had launched human trials for a vaccine to protect against the deadly Nipah virus, offering early hope against the dangerous pathogen that experts believe could seed a new pandemic, has no approved vaccines or treatments and kills as many as three in four of the people it infects. The […]
Jan 16, 2024
Low Vaccine Take-Up Blamed for Covid Deaths and Hospitalizations
Bloomberg The UK could have averted more than 7,000 Covid-19 hospitalizations and deaths over a four-month period in 2022 if people had received the recommended number of vaccines. The first British study of its kind, published Monday in the medical journal The Lancet, found that 44% of the population hadn’t gotten enough protective shots by June of […]
Jan 16, 2024
A new COVID vaccine strategy could help — if only people would pay attention
NPR Updated COVID vaccines came to U.S. consumers this fall, promising better protection against recent variants. And there was new messaging too: Get an annual COVID boosters along with your flu shot every fall. But anticipated “high demand” did not materialize. By mid-December, fewer than 20% of US adults had gotten the updated shot, and the CDC warned […]
Dec 26, 2023
Marburg vaccine tested at Texas Biomed moves to Phase 2 clinical trials
Street Insider A Marburg virus vaccine tested at Texas Biomedical Research Institute (Texas Biomed) is progressing in clinical trials, moving a step closer towards becoming the world’s first vaccine against the deadly virus. The Sabin Vaccine Institute recently announced it launched Phase 2 clinical trials of its Marburg virus vaccine, which will initially enroll 125 healthy volunteers in Uganda and Kenya. Early tests […]
Dec 19, 2023