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Meningitis Outbreak Prompts Change in Vaccine Recommendations

March 22, 2013March 23, 2022 Katharina Schwan

In 2012, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) calculated a troubling statistic: the rate of invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) in

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U.S. Stockpile of Costly Smallpox Drug Deemed Unnecessary by Experts

March 15, 2013March 23, 2022 Lauren Edmundson

The U.S. government received its first shipment of an order of 2 million doses of smallpox medication last week. The government is stockpiling the drug

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Think This Year’s Flu Was Bad? Next Year May Be Worse

March 13, 2013March 23, 2022 Anna Tomasulo

If there’s one virus outside of the common cold that most of us have had firsthand experience with, it’s clearly influenza. That alone makes it one virus everyone

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Rubella Vaccine Campaign Ready to Launch in Rwanda

March 1, 2013March 23, 2022 Lauren Edmundson

Donors plan to launch a measles and rubella vaccine campaign in Rwanda after previous successes with the measles vaccine. This will be the first instance

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First New Tuberculosis Vaccine Trial in Nearly a Century Yields Disappointing Results

February 12, 2013March 23, 2022 Steven Purcell

The first major study in nearly a century intended to test a new tuberculosis vaccine in infants was ineffective. The ‘MVA85A’ vaccine had been the

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At Least Nine Polio Workers Killed in Nigeria

February 11, 2013March 23, 2022 David Scales

On Friday, Feb. 8, at least nine young women working on a polio vaccination campaign were targeted and killed by gunmen in two separate incidents

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First Cases of Vaccine-Resistant Whooping Cough Found in United States

February 8, 2013March 23, 2022 Lauren Edmundson

In a letter to the editor published in the New England Journal of Medicine, doctors have identified twelve cases of pertussis that do not respond

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HIV Vaccine Progress

February 1, 2013March 23, 2022 Yuki Ara

In a recent study published online by Immunity this January, researchers have been able to successfully isolate four antibodies against human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) from

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A New Vaccine With Boutique-y Bacteria

January 25, 2013March 23, 2022 Jason Hayes

An article in this month’s issue of PNAS indicates that scientists successfully engineered a new tool that may change the way we design vaccines. Brittany

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Poliovirus Found in Cairo, Egypt

January 22, 2013March 23, 2022 Anna Tomasulo

According to the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office, wild poliovirus has been detected from two Cairo sewage samples. The strain detected is related to poliovirus

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