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Smallpox vaccine, IMVANEX, to be supplied to unknown European country in response to monkeypox

Bavarian Nordic A/S announced Thursday that the Company has secured a contract with an undisclosed European country to supply its IMVANEX® smallpox vaccine in response to new cases of monkeypox evolving during May 2022...

23 May, 2022

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The WHO dealmakers: Sending vaccine technology to the third world

Empowering countries to make their own vaccines may sound like a herculean task, but it is all in a day’s work for the Technology Transfer Initiative team at the World Health Organization. Many of us may recall our...

28 June, 2012

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America worried about Europe’s measles outbreak

Europe is currently facing an outbreak of measles, so US health officials are urging Americans traveling to London for the Olympics to make sure they are up-to-date with measles immunizations. Health experts explain...

28 March, 2012

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Targeted DNA vaccine using an electric pulse

The vaccines of the future against infections such as influenza and cancer can be administered using an electrical pulse and a specially-produced DNA code from the University of Oslo (UiO).

13 February, 2012

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Why we do what we do

In the everyday rush of our professional lives we can lose perspective on what it is we are trying to achieve in terms of our work –

22 December, 2011

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Measles Initiative vaccinates one billion children in first decade

The Measles Initiative has helped vaccinate one billion children in more than 60 developing countries since 2001

8 August, 2011

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Europe steps up measles surveillance

Measles transmission has been firmly re-established in some European Union (EU) Member States.

18 July, 2011

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UN declares second disease eradicated after global vaccination campaign

The United Nations has declared that a long-term, global vaccination campaign has completely eradicated a disease

29 June, 2011

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Summer mass events prompt EU call for measles vaccination

Summer mass events have the potential to quickly spread infectious diseases – especially measles – due to the large number of people, from many different countries, all meeting in the same space and time.

29 June, 2011

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Update on E.coli outbreak in Germany and cluster in France

France has reported a cluster of eight patients with bloody diarrhoea who were infected with E.coli

28 June, 2011

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