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Preventive vaccination could be a key strategy against Lassa fever and the next pandemic

Researchers at the University of Liverpool and the University of Oxford have for the first time been able to estimate the current burden of Lassa fever, project the impacts of a Lassa fever vaccination programme and...

29 August, 2024

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Researchers make breakthrough in fight against COVID-19

A team led by Jose Onuchic at Rice University and Paul Whitford at Northeastern University, both researchers at the National Science Foundation Physics Frontiers Center at the Center for Theoretical Biological Physics...

23 August, 2024

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The emerging challenges of a more severe mpox strain

This strain of the virus is known to be more severe, but it’s behaving differently from its usual patterns. The World Health Organization’s decision to declare mpox a global public health emergency for the second time...

19 August, 2024

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Everything you need to know about the mpox outbreak

The World Health Organization has declared mpox a public health emergency of international concern – a new variant of the virus has caused an outbreak in Central and West Africa and spread to Sweden The World Health...

19 August, 2024

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Study highlights sex differences in notified infectious disease cases across Europe

A study published in Eurosurveillance analysing 5.5 million cases of infectious diseases in the European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA) over 10 years has found important differences in the relative proportion of...

19 August, 2024

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Expert reaction to WHO declaring Mpox a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC)

Scientists react to the WHO declaring Mpox a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. Dr Brian Ferguson, Associate Professor of Immunology, University of Cambridge, said: “The WHO has declared a PHEIC due to...

16 August, 2024

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Breakthrough in respiratory virus prevention and treatment: researchers develop NanoSTING nasal spray and pan-coronavirus vaccine

A team of researchers, led by the University of Houston (UH), has discovered two new ways of preventing and treating respiratory viruses. In back-to-back papers in Nature Communications, the team — from the lab of Navin...

13 August, 2024

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The world needs a staph vaccine—new research could bring it a step closer

In the spring of 2011, pharmaceutical giant Merck and its collaborators learned that a data monitoring committee was calling for a halt of their phase 3 clinical trial. The vaccine candidate they had built against...

6 August, 2024

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Creating the next generation of mRNA vaccines

During the COVID-19 pandemic, mRNA vaccines came to the rescue, developed in record time and saving lives worldwide. Harvard Medical School researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital have now developed two technologies...

2 August, 2024

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Incidence of heart attacks and strokes was lower after COVID-19 vaccination, finds study of 46 million adults

A new study, published today in Nature Communications and involving nearly the whole adult population of England, has found that the incidence of heart attacks and strokes was lower after COVID-19 vaccination than...

2 August, 2024

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