New studies show that the new bivalent booster shot helps protect against the BA.4 and BA.5 variants of Omicron. These results are promising as starting in September, 2022, most boosters given were this newer version. The data from Moderna comes from antibody production rather than efficacy tests.…
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Low rates of Polio vaccination in young children are alarming New York State health officials, who worry about the disease resurging in modern America. The variant that is currently circulating has the ability to cause paralysis in many unvaccinated people. However, due to vaccine fatigue and…
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Emily Baumgaertner, New York Times:
Aid workers in DRC are utilizing a ring method in their vaccination program against Ebola, vaccinating individuals in contact with the Ebola case, as well as individuals in contact with those contacts. Already, the ring vaccination method is currently being…
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Morgan Windsor, ABC News:
A vaccination campaign to combat against the spread of the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo will begin on Monday. With now four confirmed case now in Mbandaka, an important urban port city with an estimated 1.2 million residents,…
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Susan Scutti, CNN-
Over recent years, both the US and Europe have seen a rise in mumps outbreaks. According to a recent study published by the Science Translational Medicine Journal, the rise in cases could be due to waning vaccine protection from the MMR vaccine mumps component, which immunizes…
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SHASTA DARLINGTON, NY Times-
Brazil announced recently that the country plans to vaccinate the entire country against Yellow Fever by April 2019. The 207 million people country frequently suffer outbreaks from the mosquito-borne disease. However, recently, Brazil has suffered one of the worst…
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BBC News-
Vaccination rates in the Philippines have decreased recently due to the controversy surrounding the vaccine Dengvaxia, which is a vaccine created by Sanofi-Pasteur to combat dengue fever. Over the course of 2016-2017, about 800,000 children received the vaccine in the…
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