Category: Vaccine Headlines
The research and development landscape for mpox vaccines
The Lancet On Aug 14, 2024, WHO redeclared the mpox outbreak as a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC). In contrast to the 2022 PHEIC, which was related to the global outbreak of mpox caused by the clade IIb strain, the 2024 PHEIC, attributed to the clade Ib strain, is primarily spreading through human […]
Feb 26, 2025
Scientists Describe Rare Syndrome Following Covid Vaccinations
NYT In a small study, patients with the syndrome were more likely to experience reactivation of Epstein-Barr virus and high levels of a coronavirus protein. The Covid-19 vaccines were powerfully protective, preventing millions of deaths. But in a small number of people, the shots may have led to a constellation of side effects that includes […]
Feb 19, 2025
Zoetis Zoetis today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Center for Veterinary Biologics (CVB) has issued the company a conditional license for its Avian Influenza Vaccine, H5N2 Subtype, Killed Virus. The vaccine is labelled for use in chickens. The conditional license was granted on the demonstration of safety, purity, and reasonable expectation of […]
Feb 18, 2025
What an Undervaccinated America Would Look Like
The Atlantic At first, much the same. But inevitably dangerous diseases would resurge in a country that isn’t prepared for them. Becoming a public-health expert means learning how to envision humanity’s worst-case scenarios for infectious disease. For decades, though, no one in the U.S. has had to consider the full danger of some of history’s […]
Jan 29, 2025
RFK Jr. Wants to Rethink the Measles Vaccine. Here’s What the Science Shows.
WSJ MMR vaccines are safe and effective, but fewer children are getting them. Measles and mumps are viral diseases so rare that fewer than one in 40,000 Americans catch either of them in a given year. Getting rubella is less likely than getting struck by lightning. But as recently as the 1960s, measles sickened half […]
Jan 29, 2025
Ring vaccination effective in containing Ebola
Nature Success of targeted vaccination in curbing Ebola outbreaks in DRC, paving the way for future strategies against similar infectious diseases. A new study1 in the New England Journal of Medicine has highlighted the effectiveness of ring vaccination in containing Ebola outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Ring vaccination is a public health strategy where […]
Jan 29, 2025
The US Has Bird Flu Vaccines. Here’s Why You Can’t Get One
Wired H5N1 vaccines have been previously licensed, and millions are in the national stockpile. But even with the news of the country’s first human death due to bird flu, vaccination isn’t yet recommended. As avian influenza rages through birds and dairy cattle across the United States, Georgia has become the latest state to detect the virus […]
Jan 22, 2025
HHS gives Moderna $590M to ‘accelerate’ bird flu vaccine trials
Fierce Biotech The U.S. government has handed Moderna almost $600 million to accelerate its work on various bird flu vaccines as well as work on mRNA vaccines for other influenza strains with pandemic potential. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS’) Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) has been working with Moderna since […]
Jan 22, 2025
How Lagging Vaccination Could Lead to a Polio Resurgence
NYT In its original form, the virus survives in just two countries. But a type linked to an oral vaccine used in other nations has already turned up in the West. Most American parents hardly give thought to polio beyond the instant their child is immunized against the disease. But there was a time in […]
Jan 14, 2025
Childhood vaccination rates, a health bright spot in struggling states, are slipping
NBC News Jen Fisher can do only so much to keep her son safe from the types of infections that children can encounter at school. The rest, she said, is up to other students and parents in their hometown of Franklin, Tennessee. Fisher’s son Raleigh, 12, lives with a congenital heart condition, which has left […]
Jan 14, 2025