Sentences with phrase «first vaccine program»

Soon after, in 1896, Almroth Edward Wright, an Anglo - Irish - Swedish immunologist, introduced a typhoid vaccine which proved to be successful at preventing the disease, and in 1909, Frederick F. Russell, a U.S. Army physician developed another vaccine which became the centerpiece of the first vaccine program in which an entire army was immunized.

Not exact matches

The new center — GSK's first dedicated vaccine R&D facility in the U.S. — will house 12 vaccine development programs, including projects supporting its candidate shingles vaccine, for which GSK applied for FDA approval in October.

His example suggests that while science's first and greatest triumph in this area was to develop vaccinations to control or eradicate many diseases, the challenge now — not yet achieved, and in some ways even more difficult — is to preserve public support for vaccine programs long after these scourges have largely vanished from our everyday lives.

«During the first decade of the HPV vaccination program, knowledge has increased about these highly effective HPV vaccines.

Col. Nelson Michael, the WRAIR Zika program co-lead, said, «This critical first step has informed our ongoing work in non-human primates and gives us early confidence that development of a protective Zika virus vaccine for humans is feasible.»

Vaccine program workers, who sometimes struggle to gain public trust and governmental cooperation in the first place, are furious about the deception.

• Fifteen years after pneumococcal conjugate vaccines» first introduction globally in 2000 (the United States was first to implement the vaccine), five of the highest pneumonia burden countries (India, Indonesia, Chad, China and Somalia) are still not using the vaccine in their routine immunization programs.

This experimental vaccine regimen is based on the one tested in the U.S. Military HIV Research Program - led RV144 clinical trial in Thailand — the first study to demonstrate that a vaccine can protect people from HIV infection.

A key program of VIOLIN is Vaxign, the first web - based publically available vaccine target design tool based on bioinformatics analysis of genome sequences using the strategy of reverse vaccinology.

«This finding is consistent with a hypothesis generated out of the follow - up studies to the RV144 HIV vaccine trial in Thailand that showed the first efficacy in humans,» noted COL Nelson Michael, Director of the U.S. Military HIV Research Program at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research.

In addition, this program complements IndyHumane's work to keep more senior pets in their homes in the first place, by offering low - cost vaccines and spay / neuter services to the public.

Many pet owners do not realize their pets have not had the vaccinations they need when they use a low - cost spay neuter program - they have to go to a vet to get the parvo / distemper vaccination separately, and also they need a booster 3 wks later if that is the first vaccine.

Our puppy and kitten program is suitable for all furbabies up to one year of age, and covers the ENTIRE first year of vaccines and routine care!

Under Rebecca's leadership, LifeLine also operates its own no - kill shelter, which focuses on animals with special medical or behavioral needs; Catlanta, the first and largest organized trap - neuter - return (TNR) program in Atlanta, which has sterlized and vaccinated more than 35,000 community cats; and Community LifeLine, an outreach effort that provides free vaccines and spay / neuter to thousands of pets belonging to low - income Atlantans.

Having been in practice for over 25 years and experiencing first hand the sadness and frustration of watching our feline friends suffer and ultimately die from distemper, leukemia and other respiratory diseases; the advent of new and improved vaccines and vaccination programs has taken us to a new level of care possible for our treasured friends.