by Zeke Miller A medic from Israel’s Magen David Adom emergency service administers a booster shot of the coronavirus vaccine to a woman in Tel Aviv, Israel, Saturday, Aug. 14, 2021. The country that had appeared to put the coronavirus pandemic behind it a few months ago after a world-leading vaccine drive is now re-imposing...
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Pfizer and BioNTech on Monday submitted preliminary clinical data to US health authorities as part of their effort to seek authorization for a third dose of their COVID-19 vaccine for all Americans. Last week, the United States approved the booster shot of Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines for people with weakened immune systems. Pfizer...
by Duke-NUS Medical School Image of the ultrastructural morphology exhibited by the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV). Credit: CDC Scientists from Duke-NUS Medical School and National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID) found that 2003 SARS survivors who have been vaccinated with the Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA vaccine produced highly potent functional antibodies that are capable of neutralizing not only...
by Lauran Neergaard What should I know if I got the J&J vaccine? Credit: AP /Peter Hamlin Do I need a booster if I got the Johnson & Johnson vaccine? Probably at some point, but health officials still are collecting the data needed to decide. With boosters being planned in the U.S. as early as the fall...
by Bavesh Kana, The Conversation Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain TB is one of the oldest infectious diseases in recorded history. Most of the people who are ill with TB live in low- and middle-income countries where this disease is one of the leading causes of death. This is particularly distressing given the fact that TB is...
by Karolinska Institutet Gardasil vaccine and box. Image: Wikipedia The human papillomavirus (HPV) can cause cancer and many countries run national vaccination programs to minimize the risk. Studies involving researchers at German Cancer Research Center, Karolinska Institutet and Tampere University now report on the longitudinal effect of common HPV vaccines. The results, which are published in The...
by Dennis Thompson An experimental COVID-19 vaccine could potentially provide universal protection against future COVID variants as well as other coronaviruses—maybe even the ones responsible for the common cold. And it’s dirt cheap—less than $1 a dose, researchers say. The vaccine targets a part of the COVID virus’ spike protein that appears to be highly resistant to mutation and...
by Cat Fergusonarchive page April 15, 2021 PAUL HENNESSY, SIPA USA VIA AP IMAGES The future of the single-shot Johnson & Johnson covid vaccine remains in limbo after an advisory panel recommended taking a deeper look into reports of rare—and sometimes fatal—side effects. The US Centers for Disease Control and the Food and Drug Administration advised...
A dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is administered in Cwmbran, Wales.Credit: Matthew Horwood/Getty 2 March — Just one dose of vaccine protects against silent COVID infection Asymptomatic coronavirus infections were four times less frequent in health-care workers who had received a single dose of a prominent COVID-19 vaccine than in their unvaccinated counterparts. Michael Weekes...
ELIFE IMAGE: A MICROSCOPY IMAGE OF LEPTOSPIRA BACTERIA CREDIT: WUNDER ET AL. (CC BY 4.0) Scientists have designed a single-dose universal vaccine that could protect against the many forms of leptospirosis bacteria, according to a study published today in eLife. An effective vaccine would help prevent the life-threatening conditions caused by leptospirosis, such as Weil’s disease...
