WASHINGTON — The first vaccine designed for insects may make honeybees healthier overall.
Honeybee hives vaccinated against a bacterial disease had much lower levels of an unrelated viral disease than did unvaccinated hives, veterinarian Nigel Swift of Dalan Animal Health reported April 3 at the World Vaccine Congress.
Researchers at Dalan, based in Athens, Ga., designed the bee vaccine to protect against American foulbrood — a fatal disease caused by a spore-forming bacterium called Paenibacillus larvae. Adult bees don’t
The young Muslim father who answered the door of the big detached house in the heart of Birmingham’s Sparkbrook district did not wish to give his name but was happy to speak about the measles outbreak in the city. The crucial question: did his son, who goes to the local primary school, get the MMR jab? ‘Neither I nor my wife would allow him to have it on religious grounds,’ he replied politely and without hesitation.
The measles jab contains
Pop-up clinics dishing out MMR jabs are being set up in schools in a push to boost vaccines as cases of measles surge.
The NHS has sent letters to parents of six to 11-year-olds in England urging them to make an appointment with their GP if their child has not had both doses.
They have also issued reminders to 1million people aged 11 to 25 in London and the West Midlands, the two epicentres of the outbreak, encouraging them to
Each year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approves hundreds of new drugs and therapeutic products for use by the American public.
GoodRx Health, an American health care company and telemedicine platform, has compiled and published a list of some of the most influential drug and vaccine approvals of 2023, selected by its team of pharmacists.
The list only includes products that were approved through Dec. 8.
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AstraZeneca has denied its Covid jab was ‘defective’, arguing a multi-million-pound legal case by patients who suffered a rare side-effect is ‘confused’.
Jamie Scott filed a lawsuit against the vaccine maker in the High Court in August.
The IT engineer suffered a brain haemorrhage the day after his first dose, leaving him with permanent brain damage. He labelled the jab ‘defective’.
However, in its defence filed to the court, the Anglo-Swedish drugmaker, which developed the vaccine with the University of
Doctors across the United States will likely soon have two options to protect the youngest humans from RSV.
On August 22, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the first RSV vaccine for pregnant people. By vaccinating individuals before they give birth — between 32 and 36 weeks of pregnancy — immune defenses sparked by the vaccine are transferred to newborns for protection during their first months of life (SN: 4/27/23).
RSV, or respiratory syncytial virus, causes respiratory
Covid and flu vaccines will only be offered to over-65s this winter, it was claimed today.
In a bid to ‘go back to normal’, invites won’t be dished out to millions aged 50-64 who were eligible during the pandemic.
Health chiefs are also gearing up for the immunisation drive to begin in October, a full month later than usual.
It is hoped delaying the start of the roll-out will protect people most in December and January, when both viruses are
British scientists are leading the charge to create a vaccine to halt the next deadly pandemic within 100 days of it breaking out.
Experts are working on a high-security project at Porton Down, the top-secret government laboratory, to develop prototype vaccines to tackle ‘Disease X’ when it hits.
The ambitious target would smash the 362 days it took to develop a Covid jab, potentially stopping crippling lockdowns in future.
Scientists agree it is only a matter of time until the
Seven Massachusetts State Troopers, who were previously suspended due to a COVID-19 vaccine mandate, have prevailed in a legal battle with the Massachusetts’ government and will be reinstated to their jobs, according to the State Police union in Massachusetts.
The news release from The State Police Association of Massachusetts, an independent arbitrator found that the state police violated the troopers’ rights to anti-discrimination and affirmative action.
Massachusetts State Police headquarters (John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images))
The association said
Vietnam will export two million vaccine doses against African swine fever to the Philippines by October, the government said on Wednesday, one week after it approved domestic use of the world’s first commercial vaccines against the disease.
African swine fever has for years disrupted the $250 billion global pork market. In the worst outbreak in 2018-19, about half the domestic pig population died in China, the world’s biggest producer, causing losses estimated at over $100 billion.
The vaccine to be
