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Scientists review influenza vaccine research progress and opportunities

In a new series of articles, experts in immunology, virology, epidemiology, and vaccine development detail efforts to improve seasonal influenza vaccines and ultimately develop a universal influenza vaccine. The 15...

9 April, 2019

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WHO reveals delayed pick for H3N2 flu vaccine strain

After waiting an extra month to decide on the H3N2 strain, World Health Organization (WHO) vaccine advisors finalized their recommendations on strains to include in the Northern Hemisphere 2019-20 flu vaccines. Their...

23 March, 2019

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Researchers unveil progress and challenges in introducing typhoid conjugate vaccine in Africa/Asia

Each year there are nearly 11 million cases of typhoid, a disease that is spread through contaminated food, drink and water. Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine are leading an international...

23 March, 2019

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Pan-filovirus T-cell vaccine protects mice from Ebola and Marburg

Vaccines that induce protective T-cell responses could protect against members across the filovirus family, according to a study published in the open-access journal PLOS Pathogens by Tomáš Hanke of the University of...

23 March, 2019

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Reevaluating pneumococcal vaccine guidance: An analysis

If mitigating racial disparities in those who contract pneumococcal diseases, such as meningitis and pneumonia, is a top public health priority, then recommending that all adults get a pneumococcal vaccine at age 50...

8 March, 2019

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Step forward for pneumonia vaccine development

A vaccine against the biggest bacterial killer on the planet is a step closer to being available with funding secured for preclinical trials. Professor James Paton, Director of the University of Adelaide’s Research...

6 March, 2019

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How HIV’s evasion tactics could help fight the flu

One vaccine. Lifetime immunity. This is the goal for thousands of researchers tackling one of the world’s most evasive pathogens – human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). HIV has foiled both the immune system and vaccines...

3 January, 2017

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Final trials show Ebola vaccine offers 100 percent protection

A new Ebola vaccine is safe to use and highly effective against the deadly virus, scientists say, following successful trials in Guinea and Sierra Leone. The scientists’ study, published in the Lancet, notes that...

23 December, 2016

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Scientists explain how the TB vaccine protects against other diseases

In a study published in the journal ‘Cell Reports’, the research shows that the broad-spectrum effects of the Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) vaccine could be mediated by metabolic and epigenetic changes in white blood...

21 December, 2016

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UTMB researchers develop first chikungunya vaccine from virus that does not affect people

Researchers from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston have developed the first vaccine for chikungunya fever made from an insect-specific virus that doesn’t have any effect on people, making the...

20 December, 2016

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