Sentences with phrase «of effective vaccines»

However, the development of effective vaccines and readily accessible tests (to identify infected cats) have together significantly reduced the prevalence (frequency) of infection with this virus, although it remains an important disease.

Access to clean water, modern sanitation, efficient insect control, and the advent of effective vaccines to target childhood disease may have made us complacent.

TRANSVAC is a new infrastructure project - funded by the European Commission in the context of Horizon 2020 - that aims to accelerate the development of effective vaccines urgently needed to address European and global health challenges with the ultimate goal to build an efficient and sustainable collaboration of experts and facilities to catalyse vaccine research in Europe.

Dr Odile Leroy, Executive Director of the European Vaccine Initiative (EVI) and coordinator of TRANSVAC2, said: «The TRANSVAC2 activities will further strengthen the vaccine R&D infrastructure in Europe and will thereby accelerate the development of effective vaccines that are urgently needed to address global health challenges».

This understanding of how HIV - 1's «invisibility cloak» works could lead to the development of effective vaccines against HIV - 1.

TRANSVAC is an infrastructure project that aims to accelerate the development of effective vaccines...

But scientific and economic obstacles have stymied the development of effective vaccines against many of the developing world's most deadly diseases, such as malaria and HIV as well as pneumococcus, the leading vaccine - preventable killer of children under the age of five.

Before the introduction of an effective vaccine, rotavirus was the top cause of diarrhea - related deaths in young children.

As new disease strains continue to develop, and globalization and travel make it easier to pass disease across geographical borders, the ability to whip up huge quantities of effective vaccine is becoming increasingly important.

This makes the development of an effective vaccine to protect against infection, as well as antiviral therapy to combat already - existing infections, particularly challenging,» says Dr. Grant Hansman, a virologist who leads the CHS Research Group on Noroviruses at the German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ) and Heidelberg University.

Batista was one of a number of scientists involved in the study from the Ragon Institute, established in the Boston area by experts from Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with the goal of working toward development of an effective vaccine against HIV / AIDS.

Their Asian Elephant project has completed the re-assembly of the genome of the herpes virus that is killing many young elephants, so now the development of an effective vaccine will be able to proceed for the first time.

It is a major constraint to livestock production throughout subSaharan Africa, and it threatens to invade the Americas, yet there is no immediate prospect of an effective vaccine.

For example, the UK government's program for tackling HIV and AIDS in the developing world, which was published shortly after the Bangkok meeting, makes the unqualified comment that the enterprise «will accelerate research and development of an effective vaccine.»

Fortunately, the prevalence of FeLV in cats has decreased significantly in the past 25 years since the development of an effective vaccine and accurate testing procedures.

Not exact matches

They're doing this very strategically by trying to incorporate as much of the variability and mutational changes to make sure the vaccine is effective.»

A part of the research will include analyzing exactly why this year's flu vaccine proved so ineffective against the most common strains circulating (the shot was just 25 % effective against influenza A strains).

We can't test the efficacy of the flu vaccine because everyone knows it's effective.

In the battle against cervical cancer, can fewer injections of the vaccine be just as effective in adolescents?

Given questions about how long the vaccine is effective for, she questioned the efficacy of giving shots to girls as young as 11 years old in parts of the world (such as the U.S.) where women regularly undergo safety Pap screening repeatedly over their lifetimes, saying that the chances of their contracting cervical cancer may be less than the «small» risks associated with the vaccine.

Yes, although most of the time when your baby has a low fever or a mild cold, it's still safe and effective to get the vaccine.

They don't care that vaccines are 80 % effective in individuals and the protection of the cocoon effect outweighs the small risk of individual bad reactions, because some woman on Baby Bump got the flu shot during pregnancy and her daughter has developmental delays and she thinks it might have something to do with the vaccine.

Like all vaccines, «anti D' is not 100 per cent effective in all cases, however, it can help protect the health of future pregnancies for many women.

After all, vaccines are effective because they contain weak traces of the viruses they protect against.

And because most vaccines are not 100 percent effective (they protect 85 to 95 percent of children who get them), your child may be at risk around unvaccinated kids even if he's up to date on his shots.

A well conducted study published in the Italian medical journals in June 2007 demonstrated that the daily intake of Colostrum can be 3x more effective than the flu vaccine for providing protection.

Even the best vaccines are not 100 % effective, and we can't vaccinate 100 % of the population.

Preliminary estimates by the federal CDC show this year's version of the flu vaccine is 36 percent effective against all strains of the flu, but just 25 percent effective against the H3N2 strain causing most flu cases this winter.

The Hepatitis A vaccine or immune globulin is only effective within two weeks of exposure to the virus.

There is an effective vaccine available for horses recommended by the American Association of Equine Practitioners (AAEP).

The researchers are currently planning a follow - up study which will test whether a flu vaccine is more effective for the elderly when combined with brief use of Losmapimod.

This new method will enable the effective production of RNA - based vaccines and promote the development and adoption of RNA - based plant protection methods.

Efficacy is the measure of how effective a vaccine is at protecting the overall population.

An effective genital herpes vaccine is needed to eliminate this complication of HSV - 2 infection.»

«The vaccine was virtually 100 percent effective in preventing disease in these young individuals,» says Dr. Daron G. Ferris, professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Medical College of Georgia and at the Georgia Cancer Center at Augusta University.

In their always engrossing, often grotesque account, journalist Bill Wasik and veterinarian Monica Murphy trace the illness's history, detailing the many futile methods of combating the disease (including the original «hair of the dog:» binding into a patient's wound a hair from the animal that infected him) before Louis Pasteur's rabies vaccine became the first effective treatment in 1885.

«Understanding the fundamental biology of how our immune system works will lead to the development of more effective drugs and vaccines,» said Kanneganti, corresponding author on the paper.

Exactly which organization or nation might fund the mass production of these vaccines, assuming they prove effective, also remains an open question.

By dissecting the heritage of these cells, we can find new targets to tackle a range of conditions including infectious diseases, cancers and immune disorders, and even make vaccines more effective.»

«I don't think we have the perfect plan,» admits Margolis, but like vaccine research itself, it's part of a stepwise process that should, with time, see effective vaccines go to the people who need them the most.

To date, only six patients (including Menezes) for whom the vaccination strategy failed have survived, the first was 6 year - old Matthew Winkler from Ohio, who was bitten by a rabid bat in 1970 and developed symptoms after receiving a full course of the vaccine (prior versions of the rabies vaccine were not as effective as current formulations).

Dr. David Cavanagh, of the University of Edinburgh's School of Biological Sciences, who led the study, said: «There is a desperate need for an effective vaccine, which can be made easily in large quantities, to protect against this devastating disease.

Second, mass free distribution of bed nets, medicines, and vaccines can be highly effective and properly managed.

An interdisciplinary team from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and Profectus BioSciences, Inc. has developed a quick - acting vaccine that is both safe and effective with a single dose against the Ebola strain that killed thousands of people in West Africa last year.

«The matching process is not a perfect science, therefore, in some flu seasons, the vaccine available in the fall is not a good match for the circulating virus strains and is less effective,» said senior author David Weiner, Ph.D., Executive Vice President and Director of the Vaccine and Immune Therapy Center at The Wistar Insvaccine available in the fall is not a good match for the circulating virus strains and is less effective,» said senior author David Weiner, Ph.D., Executive Vice President and Director of the Vaccine and Immune Therapy Center at The Wistar InsVaccine and Immune Therapy Center at The Wistar Institute.

He pointed to the sudden rise in share prices for pharmaceutical firms working on Ebola vaccines as one type of economic spur to ensure that medicines are there in an emergency, along with WHO's capacity to «prequalify» drugs as safe and effective so that they can be sold more cheaply and widely.

Remarkably, the researchers also found that blocking this protein in mice protected them from the lethal effects of dengue virus infection, an important finding given that an effective vaccine against dengue has remained elusive, partly because there are four serotypes of the virus that cause disease.

Although Merck's vaccine will be marketed only for cervical cancer, preliminary evidence suggests it may also be effective against penile, anal, and vulvar cancers and even certain cancers of the head and neck.

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.

The 9vHPV vaccine was also highly effective at reducing the risk of having HPV 31/33/45 / 52 / 58 - associated cervical cell abnormalities, biopsies, and definitive therapies.