Sentences with phrase «virus vaccine as»

Late last week, FDA worked with the United States Attorney to ask a court to seize the components of a product that involved the use of vaccinia virus vaccine as part of a purported treatment for cancer that FDA believes created the potential for substantial risks to patients.

Not exact matches

The trial was intended to show that the Novavax vaccine could prevent moderate to severe respiratory syncytial virus, commonly known as RSV.

Other additives, such as human serum albumin, help stabilize live viruses in the vaccine.

Some feel that it is very important to have protection from the virus for their baby as soon as they are born, but not everyone agrees that the vaccine provides the best form of protection or any at all.

The vaccine is believed to be extremely effective at preventing HBV, as long as a person, in this case your baby, is immunized before contracting the virus.

In Canada, vaccines prevent illnesses such as diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (whooping cough), polio, Haemophilus influenzae type B (Hib), rotavirus, hepatitis B, measles, mumps, rubella, chickenpox, pneumococcal and meningococcal diseases, and human papillomavirus virus (HPV).

The statement read in part, «He said that the virus was mild and there was no known treatment and no preventive vaccines hence the public should be at alert and avoid crowded places as much as possible

CHICKENPOX COMMON AMONG CHILDREN DESPITE VACCINE The highly contagious varicella - zoster virus (VZV), commonly known as chickenpox, often affects children under age 12 and sometimes even after they have been vaccinated against the disease, Oneida County Health Department officials warned today following reports of an outbreak in Herkimer County.

As Reuters and several other news outlets have reported, France's Sanofi Pasteur released a statement that said a 6 - year analysis of people who received the vaccine found more severe disease occurred in people who initially were naïve to the virus.

«The reason researchers change the vaccine every year is that they want to specifically match the vaccine to the particular viruses that are circulating, such as H1N1.

Fiers discovered a key protein on the influenza virus that could serve as a target for a universal vaccine; the drug has shown promise in an early clinical trial.

A VACCINE that masquerades as chikungunya virus might finally defeat the mosquito - borne disease.

Researchers have made headway in understanding the H5N1 virus; they have created new vaccines and are looking into other possible treatments, such as using antibodies from survivors.

Joy: Yeah, but the point is we have the technology now to sequence and manufacture vaccines fairly quickly; and ideally they wouldn't be grown in eggs or whatever, right; because what if it starts as a virus in chickens or something, and we're screwed.

«As the virus kills the plant, we harvest the vaccine before the plant withers and falls apart,» says Charles Arntzen of Arizona State University, who worked with Hugh Mason on plant vaccines.

However, Indonesia, where most H5N1 outbreaks are happening, refuses to share samples of the virus, arguing that it will not benefit in return from any vaccines developed as a result.

Lederman, who says he's «obsessed» with Jenner and has been working on a biography of the scientist for 20 years, is convinced that Jenner's original vaccine, now named vaccinia, was derived from a virus circulating in horses, not cows, as folklore has it.

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In a conversation about one of Evan's earlier vaccinia papers, Lederman told Evans that he'd love to know whether horsepox still works as a vaccine, but that he had had trouble getting hold of the virus.

One of the most crucial and elusive goals of an effective HIV vaccine is to stimulate antibodies that can attack the virus even as it relentlessly mutates.

«In addition, this platform can be used to develop safe vaccine candidates for other flaviviruses such as Zika virus, where pregnant women are the target group for vaccination.»

After several days of incubation the eggs are opened and the virus is removed, purified and used to make the vaccine, as a 2004 Scientific American article points out.

Understanding how the virus operates offers a pathway to designing antiviral drugs as well as new vaccines to control bluetongue and related viral infections in animals and humans.

The ZPIV vaccine candidate was developed by WRAIR as part of the US Department of Defense response to the 2015 - 2016 outbreak of Zika virus in the Americas, and it was advanced to a Phase 1 trial in November 2016.

As the number of cases of the paralytic disease fall, world health officials have to grapple with a vexing problem: a component of the most widely used polio vaccine now causes more disease than the virus it is supposed to fight

Other laboratories have set their sights on transforming the flu virus into prototype vaccines for other killer diseases such as HIV and malaria.

When antigens such as viruses and vaccines enter the human body, germinal centers are produced within secondary lymph nodes and memory B cells are then induced from germinal - center B cells.

«From my perspective and from listening to the minister from Indonesia talk on this issue a number of times, I think the one point that the Indonesian government has made over and over — and the main reason they are holding back — is that they regard the whole system as to how viruses get turned into vaccines unfair,» he says.

However, Burgermeister sees the error as intentional, part of a secret scheme to release engineered flu viruses so the companies can profit by selling vaccines.

As Aylward says, once the wild virus is eradicated, «then we have to make sure the «vaccine virus» is eradicated».

Will reduced - dosage IPV work against a revived vaccine virus even as we cut corners on dosage?

«If it does interfere with our immune response, it could become a target for vaccine development, not only for Zika virus, but possibly other viruses as well.

An anti-leukemia vaccine to prevent cancer of the blood - forming organs was reported as a possibility if, as experiments indicate, virus - like particles are proved to cause malignancy.

VSV, an animal virus that primarily affects cattle, has been successfully tested as an experimental vaccine platform against several viruses.

Some newer vaccine candidates use harmless viruses such as modified adenoviruses to deliver genes that encode immunizing viral proteins.

These vaccines, however, are not effective against viruses — so one solution is selecting parent fish with virus - resistant traits to use as broodstock for salmon egg production.

«Now that we know the mice can be vulnerable to Zika infection, we can use the animals to test vaccines and therapeutics — and some of those studies are already underway — as well as to understand the pathogenesis of the virus,» said senior author Michael Diamond, MD, PhD, a professor of medicine at Washington University.

As we previously mentioned, tracking the first 100 cases of this virus, looking at who it affects and how is essential to our understanding of the H1N1 flu virus and to the process of developing a vaccine.

This vaccine uses an inactive herpes virus (stripped of its viral genes) to transport a small amount of Aß as well as another protein called interleukin - 4 that may help prevent brain inflammation.

The vaccine was targeted especially toward the virus strain circulating in Thailand, and it may not show the same effectiveness where the virus is different, such as Africa or the U.S. And even the 31.2 percent fewer cases that it resulted in is hardly an ideal preventative strategy.

The vaccines targeted an influenza A H1N1 seasonal flu strain as well as A (H7N9), a virus considered to have the potential to trigger a human pandemic.

The ongoing Zika virus outbreak in Latin America and the Caribbean has created an urgent need for identifying small animal models as a first step toward developing vaccines and treatments to fight the infection.

Sun is currently conducting collaborative research with hydrogels for applications and efficiency with anticancer drugs screening and delivery, stem cells and wound healing, as well as being used in vaccines for H1N1 influenza and animal diseases, such as the porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus, or PRRS.

Taking a slightly different route, Aviron, a biotech company in Mountain View, California, designed a vaccine based on a live, inactivated virus that could be squirted into the nose as a fine mist.

This means that when an unexpected flu strain appears, such as the 2009 pandemic - causing H1N1 virus, there is no way to rapidly produce a vaccine against it.

In the past, attempts to develop a vaccine based on foot - and - mouth virus peptides failed to offer adequate protection, as did a live, weakened virus.

The reliably high percentage of those who develop viremia following exposure to this challenge virus is another advantage — when most or all volunteers develop viremia or other signs of infection, clinical trials can enroll relatively small numbers of people but still achieve answers to such questions as whether a candidate vaccine protects against infection, she noted.

As a final confirmation of the compound's potential to stop a virus from spreading, they tested it against an actual virus: the nonpathogenic vaccine strain of the Junin virus.

Kang's primary research focuses on designing and developing effective vaccines against viral diseases such as influenza virus and RSV, but he partnered with a university and research institutes in South Korea that wanted international collaborative projects to study if ginseng can be used to improve health and protect against disease because of the potential benefit in fighting these viruses.

The real surprise was that, unlike the vaccine viruses, the hybrids were as deadly as wild ILT (Science, DOI: 10.1126 / science.1217134).