New COVID-19 vaccine for fall should target JN.1 lineage, not variant, FDA panel Current vaccines don’t provide as much protection against JN.1 and its several sub-variants that have been driving cases for months. 06/5/2024 - 8:06 am | View Link
COVID vaccine makers ready updated shots for fall immunization drive Moderna (NASDAQ:MRNA), and Novavax (NASDAQ:NVAX) on Wednesday reiterated their commitment to provide the U.S. with updated COVID-19 vaccines in time for an immunization drive in the fall. In ... 06/5/2024 - 3:52 am | View Link
A promising vaccine approach to induce longer-lasting protective immunity against COVID-19 A team from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at the National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine) and Monash University has engineered a COVID-19 vaccine that induced—in pre-clinical models—very ... 06/4/2024 - 10:30 am | View Link
FDA Panel to Consider Updating COVID-19 Jabs for New Virus Strains Shares of COVID-19 vaccine developers rose on Monday after the FDA issued briefing documents for its Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) meeting on Jun 5 to consider ... 06/4/2024 - 4:57 am | View Link
FDA vaccine advisors expected to vote on new COVID-19 booster formula KP.2 and KP.3 are part of the FLiRT variants. According to the latest CDC data, these strains are taking over cases in the United States right now, making up 28.5% and 12.7% of new cases, respectively ... 06/4/2024 - 1:25 am | View Link
There is nothing surprising about a Prime Minister seeking a third consecutive term returning to power with a weakened mandate. Voter fatigue and anti-incumbency factors can erode margins. That Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party is projected to win 240 parliamentary seats (out of 543) in India, though short of a majority, would be considered a good outcome in most other settings.
U. S. intelligence officials are issuing a stark warning to America’s former “Top Gun” pilots: Don’t help China.
A new threat bulletin issued Wednesday warns that China’s People’s Liberation Army “continues to target” current and former Western fighter pilots to help teach Chinese pilots how to master one of the hardest maneuvers in aviation: taking off and landing on aircraft carriers.
FLORENCE, Italy — An Italian court reconvicted Amanda Knox of slander on Wednesday, even after she was exonerated in the brutal 2007 murder of her British roommate while the two were exchange students in Italy.
The court found that Knox had wrongly accused an innocent man, the Congolese owner of the bar where she worked part time, of the killing.
BEIRUT — A gunman was captured by Lebanese soldiers after attempting to attack the U. S. Embassy near Beirut on Wednesday, the military said.
The attack took place as tensions continued to simmer in the tiny Mediterranean country, where months of fighting between Hezbollah militants and Israeli troops has displaced thousands along the border, following years of political deadlock and economic hardship.
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Damaran Baru, Indonesia — In a lush jungle at the foothills of a volcano in Indonesia’s Aceh province, the song of gibbons in the trees mixes with the laughter of the seven forest rangers trekking below them. An hour into their patrol, the rangers spot another mammal in the forest with them.
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“Where are you going?