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Next-gen polio vaccine tackles wild virus emergency

Vaccine technology being developed at The University of Queensland could hold the key to completely eradicating polio by removing live virus from the vaccine production process. A polio inoculation in use since the...

14 November, 2014

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First Ebola vaccination trial in Mali promising

The first Ebola vaccination trial in Mali is looking bright as volunteers have responded positively to the vaccines, an infectologist in Mali said Thursday. “We know that after two weeks they’re starting to...

7 November, 2014

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Ebola: UN says experimental vaccine trials in West Africa could begin by January

The (WFP) said the Ebola crisis response “needs to scale up, get better and perform faster,” as the UN health agency reported that if judged safe, larger scale trials of an experimental vaccine could be taken to hard...

7 November, 2014

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Inhaled Ebola vaccine may offer long-term protection from virus

A potentially breathable, respiratory vaccine in development has been shown to provide long-term protection for non-human primates against the deadly Ebola virus, as reported this week in the online edition of the...

5 November, 2014

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South San Francisco firm developing Ebola vaccine in tablet form

A South San Francisco company is developing an Ebola vaccine that can be administered by tablet rather than injection. Privately-held Vaxart said after a recent meeting with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration it...

5 November, 2014

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UGA researchers discover route for potential Chagas disease animal vaccine

Researchers at the University of Georgia have discovered a new way to direct a vaccine to the parasite that causes Chagas disease, a leading cause of death among young to middle-age adults in areas of South America...

3 November, 2014

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No vaccine against ignorance

In the absence of credible, strong political leadership, paranoia about disease can go viral. We’ve seen this happen around the world with a wide range of illnesses, from swine flu to SARS to Ebola. And even after...

31 October, 2014

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Medical Research Institute contributes to vaccine development effort

No vaccines or drugs are available yet to protect people worldwide against Ebola virus disease, but two potential vaccines are in human safety testing, and scientists at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of...

31 October, 2014

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Important milestone advances world’s first and only human hookworm vaccine development initiative

The Sabin Vaccine Institute (Sabin) today announced that its product development partnership (Sabin PDP) successfully completed a Phase 1 clinical trial in Brazil of Na-GST-1/Alhydrogel®, a vaccine candidate for human...

29 October, 2014

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Clinical results indicate vaccine candidate highly efficacious against bacterial diarrhea

Vaccine/adjuvant combination against a leading cause of bacterial diarrhea shows great promise for saving children’s lives New results from a safety and immunogenicity study, which included a challenge phase to...

29 October, 2014

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