A research team that includes scientists with Kansas State University’s Biosecurity Research Institute has developed a promising Zika virus vaccine. The vaccine, a DNA vaccine, is safer and more effective against...
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adminWHO switches H1N1 in Southern Hemisphere flu vaccine
World Health Organization (WHO) vaccine advisors today recommended changing only the 2009 H1N1 component for the Southern Hemisphere’s 2017 flu vaccine, the first change in the H1N1 component since the former...
Standard pertussis vaccine immunity wanes substantially over time
The current vaccine for pertussis, or whooping cough, is highly effective at protecting people from the disease during the first three years after vaccination, but immunity wanes significantly over the subsequent four...
New mouse model technology could speed the search for an AIDS vaccine
Researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital have developed a technology to quickly generate mouse models for testing and tweaking potential HIV vaccines. Such models could speed up the quest for the AIDS...
Kenya: Top scientist trains sights on getting HIV vaccine, cure
One Kenyan may soon place the country as the first nation whose citizen found a vaccine and a cure for HIV. Prof Thumbi Ndung’u – head of Kwazulu Natal Research Institute for Tuberculosis and HIV...
Vaccine guards against Zika in monkey study
Human safety trials are already under way, researchers add. An experimental DNA-based vaccine protected monkeys from infection with the birth defects-causing Zika virus, and it has proceeded to human safety trials...
Mosquito saliva found effective at keeping Dengue virus at bay
Mosquito saliva, which is long-known to help the transmission of infectious agents into the host, is also found to inhibit the virus in case of Dengue infection. A protein named D7, which is present in Aedes aegypti...
Infectious disease transmission—it's who you know and where you go
Public health researchers have long used social networks to understand the spread of infectious diseases, but those social networks often have gaps. A team of researchers recently showed that spatial analysis can help...
Top vaccination errors—and how to avoid them
Administering the wrong vaccine and vaccinating someone of the wrong age are the most common vaccination errors, according to a new report from the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) National Vaccine Errors...
CHORI study reveals potential improvements for effectiveness of meningococcal vaccines
A study conducted by UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute (CHORI) scientists shows greatly improved protective antibody responses to a new mutant vaccine antigen for prevention of disease...