Sentences with phrase «u.s. vaccine plans»

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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and USAID should conduct a thorough global threat analysis of rising TB levels and execute a plan of action for developing new diagnostics, drugs, vaccines, and delivery systems.

Last year the National Institutes of Health announced plans to put some 180 ex-Coulston chimps currently housed at the Alamogordo Primate Facility back in service, to rejoin the roughly 800 other chimps that serve as subjects for studies of human diseases, therapies and vaccines in the U.S., which is the only country apart from Gabon to maintain chimps for this purpose.

They will try to improve on that with new vaccine strains, but even if they fail, U.S. pandemic planning has incorporated such setbacks, Schuchat told reporters.

Production problems in a vaccine factory in Liverpool, U.K., have derailed U.S. plans to prepare for this year's flu season and focused new attention on the fragile supply of essential vaccines.

So far in tests on mice, plant proteins have worked as well as traditional vaccines, and the U.S. Navy is planning human trials later this year.

The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) this week canceled plans for a large clinical trial of an experimental vaccine to combat the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

Collaborators are planning clinical testing of this HIV vaccine regimen in healthy adults at research sites in the U.S., East Africa, South Africa, and Thailand.

While all non-grandfathered health insurance plans cover vaccines routinely recommended for preventative care in the U.S., vaccines for tropical diseases that aren't a problem where you live are probably not covered by your health insurance plan.