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Latest XBB COVID-19 vaccine offers protection against hospitalization, deaths

JAMA Internal Medicine published a study calculating the protection offered by the latest Pfizer COVID-19 XBB vaccine compared to older vaccines against COVID-associated hospitalization and emergency department (ED) or...

27 June, 2024

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Researchers discover a potential vaccine to prevent tuberculosis in people of all ages

In a critical global public health development, a candidate vaccine for tuberculosis (TB) has been created using a gene-editing approach. TB remains the leading cause of death by infectious disease globally, with South...

21 June, 2024

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Imperial’s human challenge study helps explain why some people don’t get COVID

New analysis based on Imperial’s COVID-19 human challenge study has helped to uncover how some people avoid getting sick. Researchers have found that people who are able to fend off the SARS-CoV-2 virus have unique...

20 June, 2024

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Prior COVID infection may protect against some common colds

If you’ve been sick with COVID-19, you may have some protection against certain versions of the common cold. A new study suggests previous COVID-19 infections lower the risk of getting colds caused by milder...

18 June, 2024

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A promising vaccine approach to induce longer-lasting protective immunity against COVID-19

A scientific team from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at the National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine) and Monash University has engineered a COVID-19 vaccine that induced – in pre-clinical models – very long...

13 June, 2024

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Emerging threat: New RNA virus found in human neurons

Researchers discovered Apocryptovirus odysseus, a new RNA virus linked to severe inflammation in Toxoplasma gondii-infected humans. An international team led by researchers at the University of Toronto has found a new...

13 June, 2024

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‘Increased evidence that we should be alert’: H5N1 bird flu is adapting to mammals in ‘new ways’

New research in marine mammals suggests the virus is increasingly adapting to mammalian hosts. The H5N1 bird flu virus responsible for the current U.S. outbreak in dairy cows is increasingly adapting to spread in...

12 June, 2024

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Vaccines don’t cause autism, but the lie won’t die—in fact, it’s getting worse

For years, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has bluntly stated the truth: “Vaccines do not cause autism,” the agency affirms on its website. Yet, nearly a quarter of Americans still...

11 June, 2024

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Experimental mRNA avian flu vaccine

Promising preclinical results from a new Penn Medicine study suggest an mRNA vaccine platform could limit the impact of avian flu pandemics. An experimental mRNA vaccine against avian influenza virus H5N1 is highly...

10 June, 2024

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Lyme disease cases are rising. We don’t have a vaccine — but we used to

With Lyme disease cases climbing steadily in Canada, the lack of an available vaccine has become a pressing concern among infectious disease specialists. Getting bitten by a tick means risking a potential infection with...

7 June, 2024

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