Gravely ill and determined to release the herpes vaccine he developed, microbiologist Bill Halford didn’t want to wait around for grants and regulations. So he went rogue, shirking FDA regulations and gathering subjects at a hotel, and in Saint Kitts, to try his method.…
An unprecedented flow of refugees is testing immunization services across Europe, revealing gaps that put the success of the European Vaccine Action Plan at risk, write Sally Hargreaves and colleagues.
Warmer weather is helping drive a surge in diseases transmitted via mosquitos, ticks and fleas in the US, which have more than tripled in the US in recent years, according to the CDC.
Bill Gates announced Friday a $12 million Grand Challenge to speed up development of a universal flu vaccine, aiming for clinical trials by 2021. The seasonal flu vaccine is a guessing game in matching strain to vaccine that takes 6 months. That timeline leaves us ill-…
The WHO says it will decide by 2019 whether to recommend routine antibiotics for infants in poor countries after a large study—known as the Mordor trial—revealed that receiving 2 annual doses of antibiotics reduced infant mortality by as much as 25%.
The first-ever dengue vaccine had been considered safe in recent years despite concerns that it could worsen the disease in those not previously infected. Then that theory became a reality, and last week the WHO’s expert group, known as the SAGE, recommended reserving…
To get you in the spirit for World Immunization Week, UNICEF bundled up a dozen vaccination facts. In case you want to test yourself first here’s a sampling:
The first-ever dengue vaccine should be reserved “exclusively or almost exclusively” for those previously infected with the disease, the WHO confirmed.
n 2011, journalist Lise Barnéoud and her 2-month-old contracted measles during the Die, France epidemic linked to “anti-vaxxers.” After both survived, Barnéoud (among the hapless patients not fully vaccinated as children) dug into the outbreak’s impacts in her book…
The International Vaccine Access Center helps inform global vaccine policies and implementation but their assessments have to include more than just a measure of efficacy to determine the full benefit of vaccine programs. This includes evaluating things like economic…
