Sentences with phrase «vaccine against smallpox»
The team claims its work, funded by Tonix, a pharmaceutical company headquartered in New York City, could lead to a safer, more effective vaccine against smallpox.
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Although much of that money goes to stockpiling vaccines and improving disease surveillance and information exchange, part of it pays for research into improved vaccines and other «countermeasures» against smallpox, anthrax, and botulinum toxin.
If the vaccine also proves safe and effective in subsequent tests in humans, it might be possible to mount a containment strategy similar to that used in the past against smallpox.
«I've never seen anything quite so disturbing,» said Zelicoff, who worries that existing smallpox vaccines may not offer adequate protection against the strain.
Such cross-protection is the case with cowpox and smallpox, and a vaccine currently in use for Japanese encephalitis protects some animals against the closely related West Nile virus.
Ever since Edward Jenner developed the first successful vaccine against the dreaded smallpox virus, researchers have been riveted by the interplay between the body's defense mechanisms and pathogens staging an attack.
During 2002 through 2006, VXGN developed vaccines against inhalation anthrax and smallpox for the purpose of biodefense.