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Vaccines in 2024: First two malaria vaccines roll out as cholera, Ebola shots show promise
03 Jan 2025 20:03 GMT
… this year, the Jynneos vaccine was made commercially available, … compared with available individual vaccines. Read more. CDC … vaccines aimed at descendants of the JN.1 variant of SARS … Read more. Another Marburg vaccine candidate reaches human trials …
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RSV Vaccine Protects Older Adults From Severe Disease
02 Jan 2025 09:24 GMT
… virus prefusion F (RSVpreF) vaccine significantly reduced severe RSV-related … negative for RSV, human metapneumovirus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, and influenza but … and hindered the stability of vaccine effectiveness estimates for some …
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BCG vaccine protects against long COVID development, finds study
02 Jan 2025 02:51 GMT
… Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccination during the active phase … previous human coronavirus disease, SARS, which began in the … Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccination is commonly used to prevent … subjects demonstrated that BCG vaccine, if given during the …
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People who are immunocompromised may not produce enough protective antibodies against RSV after vaccination
30 Dec 2024 23:19 GMT
… immunocompromised respond to vaccines against SARS-CoV-2, the … antibodies against RSV following vaccination as compared with … medications.
The two vaccines induce the immune system … are immunocompromised getting additional vaccine doses to improve protection …
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Key moments from the first months of COVID-19
01 Jan 2025 10:35 GMT
… of the 2002–2004 SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus or SARS-CoV-1) outbreak.
… travel-related infection of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in … in its trial of a vaccine to protect against COVID- … Speed to produce a vaccine against the SARS-CoV-2 virus as …
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A disease unknown to science could spark the next pandemic. Are we prepared?" target="_self" data-before-rewrite-localise="/health/viruses-infections-disease/a-disease-unknown-to-science-could-spark-the-next-pandemic-are-we- …
01 Jan 2025 10:06 GMT
… 'd had experience with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle Eastern respiratory syndrome … proved vital in allowing COVID vaccines to be developed rapidly. For … of AstraZeneca's COVID vaccine.
Similarly, previous research into the …
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A look back on five years of Covid-19
31 Dec 2024 15:05 GMT
… was later named as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).
The disease … mutated into different strains the vaccines have been tweaked.
Mathematical modellers … from Imperial College London estimated vaccines have prevented the deaths of …
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What Will Happen to COVID-19 in 2025? Experts Explain
03 Jan 2025 19:59 GMT
… : "Improvement in vaccine uptake, vaccine access and availability., ongoing … an image of a SARS-CoV-2 virus inset. … through past infections or vaccinations will be massively undermined … research happening on intranasal vaccines that could provide broader …
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Nirmatrelvir-Ritonavir (Paxlovid) Reduces Short and Long-Term Adverse Outcomes in COVID-19 Patients with Kidney Disease
03 Jan 2025 19:25 GMT
… prior COVID-19 infection or vaccination). In a recent analysis of … with pre-existing immunity from vaccination or prior infection. Both studies … participants with prior SARS-CoV-2 infection or vaccination: a pooled analysis …
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Human Metapneumovirus Outbreak in China: HMPV Symptoms & More
03 Jan 2025 16:38 GMT
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— SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) (@COVID19 … was directly caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Coronaviruses are … known antiviral treatment nor a vaccine for HMPV. COVID-19 can … such as Paxlovid, and a vaccine was introduced in late 2020.