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Bacillus anthracis bacteria using Gram-stain technique

Anthrax vaccine, BioThrax, receives Health Canada nod

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Emergent BioSolutions Inc. today announced that Health Canada has approved the company’s New Drug Submission (NDS) for its anthrax vaccine, BioThrax® (Anthrax Vaccine Adsorbed). BioThrax is indicated...

Borrelia burgdorferi spirochetes/CDC

Lyme Disease vaccine candidate enters Phase 2 clinical development

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In a follow-up on the development of Valneva’s Lyme Disease vaccine candidate, VLA15, the company announced today that it is entering Phase 2 Clinical Development. The overall Phase 2 objective...

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HIV: Experimental vaccine protects rhesus macaques from infection

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For more than 20 years, scientists at Scripps Research have chipped away at the challenges of designing an HIV vaccine. Now new research, published in Immunity, shows that their experimental vaccine strategy...

3D print of influenza virus. The virus surface (yellow) is covered with proteins called hemagglutinin (blue) and neuraminidase (red). NIH

Flu shots: Black youth receive the vaccine at significantly lower rates

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Black adolescents living in the United States tend to receive the influenza vaccine at significantly lower rates than their white and Hispanic counterparts, according to Florida State University researchers. A...

Gram-negative Neisseria meningitidis diplococcal bacteria/CDC

Meningococcal meningitis vaccine encouraged at the University of Otago

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The University of Otago’s Student Health Services is encouraging students to be immunised against meningococcal disease over the summer break. There has been an increase in meningococcal disease in...

Image/CDC-/ Meredith Boyter Newlove, M.S., James Archer, M.S.

Polio vaccination: Pakistan starts last ‘door-to-door’ campaign of 2018

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Closest ever to its goal of stopping Polio virus circulation, Pakistan starts the last nationwide door to door Polio vaccination campaign of the year from 10th December. During these days, over 270,000...

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Libya launches measles, rubella and polio vaccination campaign

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The National Campaign for Vaccination against Measles, Rubella and Polio, in addition to vitamin A dose has been launched in all areas of Libya Saturday. The campaign lasts for seven days until the 15th...

A person receives the seasonal influenza vaccine (flu shot). Imahe/NIAID

Annual flu shot can save heart failure patients’ lives: Research

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Getting an annual flu shot can save heart failure patients’ lives, according to new research in the American Heart Association’s journal Circulation. Flu season usually begins in the fall...

Polio vaccine Image/Michael Washington, PhD, Health Scientist, NCEZID

Africa: Djibouti’s mass polio vaccination campaign

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According to the World Health Organization, early analysis of campaign data points to a successful vaccination round in a polio-free country at risk of possible importation. In the last week of October,...

This is a transmission electron micrograph (TEM) of Zika virus/ Cynthia Goldsmith

University of Hawaii researchers develop a Zika vaccine candidate

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Researchers at the University of Hawaii medical school have successfully developed a vaccine candidate for the Zika virus, showing that it is effective in protecting both mice and monkeys from the infection. Demonstrating...