Access to vaccines, drinking water, hygiene and infection control methods can prevent more than 750,000 deaths associated with Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) each year, according to a study published this Thursday in The Lancet. The research, led by the University of Ibadan (Nigeria) and the University of California (USA), warns that the lack of health policies […]
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They develop a new effective vaccine even for the next coronavirus pandemic
Four years after a coronavirus cause a global emergency, scientists have already developed a new technology of vaccines which, they have shown in mice, protects against a wide range of coronaviruses with potential for future outbreaks of the disease, including some that we don’t even know about yet. This is a new approach, called “proactive […]
Vaccines have saved 154 million lives in the world in half a century, according to the WHO
Vaccines have managed to save the lives of 154 million people in the world, a statistical analysis presented by the World Health Organization (WHO) on the occasion of the start of its Global Immunization Week. The majority of these saved lives would be children (146 million), particularly those under one year of age (101 million), […]
A man was vaccinated 217 times against covid, did he suffer side effects?
A 62-year-old German man has been vaccinated 217 times against covid, despite the fact that he had received advice from doctors not to do so, according to the latest issue of the journal The Lancet Infectious Diseases. The vaccines were purchased and administered privately over a period of 29 months, and everything indicates that the […]
The Nobel Prize in Medicine Weissman investigates a universal vaccine for all coronaviruses
He new Nobel Prize in Medicine Drew Weissman, whose research is at the base of the technology that made Covid-19 vaccines possible, believes there is still room for improvement and is working to achieve universal immunization against the coronavirus. This year, the American immunologist won the award along with the Hungarian biochemist Katalin Karikó for […]
Brazil and Cuba will develop medicines and vaccines against Alzheimer’s or diabetes
Brazil and Cuba This Saturday they signed three agreements to jointly develop medicines and vaccines against him Alzheimer’s wave diabetes taking advantage of synergies, and to resume scientific and technological exchanges. The signing took place during the meeting held at the Palace of the Revolution in Havana by the president of Cuba, Miguel Diaz-Caneland his […]
The European regulator approves a new anti-covid vaccine adapted from Pfizer
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) approved on Wednesday an adapted version of the anti-Covid vaccine from Pfizer et BioNTech to combat infection by a widespread subvariant of the virus in winter. Although since the beginning of May the World Health Organization no longer considers Covid-19 a global health emergency, the virus continues to circulate in […]
China approves world’s first vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 strains
The protein vaccine Coviccine® Trivalent XBB.1.5-Recombinant COVID-19 Trivalent (XBB.1.5+BA.5+Delta) (Sf9 cell) developed by WestVac Biopharma/ West China Medical Center, Sichuan University was approved for USA by relevant authorities in China. This is the world’s first US-approved COVID-19 vaccine against the XBB progeny strains of SARS-CoV-2. This shows that China is leading the world in the […]
Two bird flu vaccines tested in ducks are “very effective” in France
Two vaccines tested in France against bird flu They were “very effective” in protecting mulard ducks, bred to make foie gras, the Anses health agency told AFP on Thursday. The “favorable results provide sufficient guarantees to launch a vaccination campaign starting in the fall [boreal] of 2023”, pointed out for his part the Department of […]
South Korea activates its highest alert level for foot-and-mouth disease in the center of the country
South Korea activated its maximum alert level in the center of the country on Friday due to the increase in infections of aphtose fever among livestock, according to the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs. The alert was increased by two degrees to reach the maximum on its four-level scale in locations such as […]