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Study highlights flaws in global disease mapping

A study led by The University of Western Australia has shown that maps routinely produced to track the spread of diseases such as COVID-19 are flawed, resulting in inaccurate targeting of interventions and misallocation...

20 October, 2020

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Pfizer, BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine planned for late November FDA submission

The first coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine to be considered for emergency approval may be a month away. Pfizer chief executive officer Albert Bourla wrote in an open letter Friday morning that efficacy and safety...

20 October, 2020

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The vaccine may come without a needle

Vaccines are traditionally administered with a needle, but this isn’t the only way. For example, certain vaccines can be delivered orally, as a drop on the tongue, or via a jet-like device. Vaccines that appear...

16 October, 2020

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Rapid diagnostic testing, repurposing drug therapies and vaccines targeting innate immunity, are integral factors in mitigating COVID-19

The Global Virus Network (GVN), a coalition of the world’s leading medical and basic virology research centers working to prevent illness and death from viral disease, convened a press conference with attendees from...

9 October, 2020

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Virus death toll certainly higher than 1M: WHO chief

Science offers solutions but they will be ineffective without solidarity, says WHO chief Although 1 million lives are confirmed to have been lost to COVID-19, the real number is “certainly higher,” the chief of the...

6 October, 2020

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A virus and bacteria may ‘team up’ to harm babies’ brains

Researchers analyzed blood and cerebrospinal fluid from 100 infants in Uganda with hydrocephalus A newly discovered bacteria may be working with a common virus to cause a serious brain condition in infants in Uganda...

6 October, 2020

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Cells sacrifice themselves to boost immune response to viruses

Whether flu or coronavirus, it can take several days for the body to ramp up an effective response to a viral infection. New research appearing in the journal Nature Immunology describes how different cells in the...

2 October, 2020

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COVID-19 vaccine won’t immediately end the pandemic, experts say

Finding a vaccine for COVID-19 does not mean an automatic return to normality, experts say, warning people to be “realistic” about the challenges that remain. There may still be some time before it makes a...

2 October, 2020

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How to fight back against coronavirus vaccine phobia

The world is soon likely to confront a serious new challenge to the fight against Covid-19: vaccine hesitancy. In the U.S. and U.K., large numbers of people — at least 30 percent — have said in recent surveys that they...

21 September, 2020

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Typhoid: Study confirms Vi-DT conjugate vaccine is safe and immunogenic in children 6-23 months of age

A new study conducted by IVI in collaboration with SK bioscience shows that single-dose and two-dose regimens of Vi-DT typhoid conjugate vaccine (TCV) are safe and immunogenic in children 6-23 months of age, a group...

21 September, 2020

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