If
a vaccine lasts a person for a lifetime, why do I have to vaccinate my pet annually?
Not exact matches
Ebola has infected 28,000
people and killed 11,000 of those in the
last 20 months, according to a statement from Gavi, a global public - private partnership that works to get new
vaccines to those who need them.
The company first offered this UberHEALTH option two years ago, administering flu shots in Boston, New York, and Washington, D.C. Uber did it again
last year, offering
vaccines in more than 35 cities — they cost $ 10, but up to 10
people could be vaccinated with each request.
People in regions in which cholera is prevalent, such as Africa, do not use much
vaccine as the immunity the
vaccines elicit does not
last long.
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.
Legros helped organise the first emergency use of the
vaccine last year, in four camps of
people displaced by fighting in South Sudan.
Vaccination for several years after the «
last» polio case is recorded will probably be necessary, the WHO says, to protect
people from reverted «
vaccine virus».
In another development, doctors announced
last week that, for the first time, an experimental
vaccine appears to protect some
people against the H5N1 avian flu (SN: 9/10/05, p. 171: When Flu Flies the Coop).
We have been wanting to write about the Dengue
vaccine mess since
last year but for obvious lack of knowledge or expertise on the matter, we decided to hold our piece and waited for
people who can be considered authorities on this serious issue to address it.
As Seth Berkeley — the president of the International AIDS
Vaccine Initiative — described it during an inaugural celebration
last month, it's essentially match.com for connecting scientists and
people in developing countries with challenges that could be surmounted better with some brainstorming.