Sentences with phrase «emergency use of the vaccine»
Legros helped organise the first emergency use of the vaccine last year, in four camps of people displaced by fighting in South Sudan.
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5Zika vaccine: Florida Gov. Rick Scott, who has been highly critical of the federal response to the outbreak of the Zika virus, used his emergency powers Thursday to direct $ 25 million in state money toward helping to develop a vaccine.
The National Institute on Drug Abuse is pursuing a mix of approaches that include developing non-opioid pain medicines, conducting research on vaccines that may blunt the impact of fentanyl and its related offshoots, getting public health organizations to increase the availability and use of medications already available to treat opioid addiction and getting medications such as buprenorphine and naloxone, which suppress withdrawal symptoms and ease cravings, into the hands emergency room doctors dealing with patients with opioid addictions.
Unfortunately for all of us, it's unlikely that current vaccine production methods — which have been in use for more than half a century — could produce the quantity of vaccine that would be necessary in an emergency.
If the WHO grants an emergency use listing, this will accelerate the availability of Janssen's investigational vaccine regimen to the international community in the event another Ebola crisis occurs.»
Other studies included use of rapid tests for HIV, HBV and HCV for emergency field testing of the «Walking Blood Bank» in military operations; use of dried blood spots for collection of specimens in the field for testing of HIV, Dengue, West Nile Virus and Chikungunya Virus; and molecular assays for monitoring Chlamydia trachomatis, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Ebola virus, and other infectious agents in epidemiology and vaccine research studies.
The message sent was simple «We are opposed to the use of unsafe and unnecessary vaccines and to the dangerous medical practice of administering vaccines to animals receiving veterinary care in times of emergency.»