Scientists Developing Vaccine Against Present and Future COVID Viruses Scientists are busy working on a vaccine that might fight strains of the COVID virus SARS-CoV-2 that haven't even emerge ... 05/5/2024 - 11:11 pm | View Link
Global immunization efforts have saved at least 154 million lives over the past 50 years GENEVA – A major landmark study to be published by The Lancet reveals that global immunization efforts have saved an estimated 154 million lives – or the equivalent of 6 lives every minute of every ... 05/4/2024 - 11:04 am | View Link
Moderna’s COVID vaccine sales plunge, as analysts debate future of once-hot company Sales of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine plunged 91 percent from the previous year for the first quarter in a dramatic illustration of waning demand for protection from the virus that caused the pandemic. 05/3/2024 - 7:08 am | View Link
COVID Vaccine Side Effects: 4 Takeaways From Our Investigation Soon after their arrival in late December 2020, the COVID-19 vaccines turned the pandemic around and opened a path back to normalcy. They prevented about 14.4 million deaths worldwide, according to ... 05/3/2024 - 6:53 am | View Link
Launching an effective bird flu vaccine quickly could be tough, scientists warn Federal health officials say the U.S. has the building blocks to make a vaccine to protect humans from bird flu, if needed. But experts warn we're nowhere near prepared for another pandemic. 05/2/2024 - 10:00 pm | View Link
Vaccines | Free Full-Text | Safety and Immunogenicity of an ... The safety and immunogenicity of the two-dose Ebola vaccine regimen MVA-BN-Filo, Ad26.ZEBOV, 14 days apart, was evaluated in people without HIV (PWOH) and living with HIV (PLWH). In this observer-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 2 trial, healthy adults were randomized (4:1) to receive MVA-BN-Filo (dose 1) and Ad26.ZEBOV (dose 2), or two doses of saline/placebo, administered intramuscularly 14 ... 05/4/2024 - 7:05 am | View Website
Current state of Ebola virus vaccines: A snapshot Why are Ebola virus vaccines needed? Four species of the genus Ebolavirus cause severe and often lethal disease in humans: Sudan ebolavirus (SUDV), Bundibugyo ebolavirus (BDBV), Taï Forest ebolavirus (TAFV), and Zaire ebolavirus (EBOV) [].Historically, EBOV has caused most Ebolavirus outbreaks and cases. The devastating 2013 to 2016 EBOV epidemic in West Africa, resulting in approximately ... 05/4/2024 - 6:08 am | View Website
UN agencies and partners establish global Ebola vaccine stockpile In a major milestone in the fight against deadly diseases, United Nations agencies and humanitarian partners announced on Tuesday, the establishment of a global Ebola vaccine stockpile, to help control future epidemics by ensuring timely access to vaccines for populations at risk, during outbreaks. Ebola virus disease is a severe and often ... 05/3/2024 - 11:56 pm | View Website
Current state of Ebola virus vaccines: A snapshot Why are Ebola virus vaccines needed? Four species of the genus Ebolavirus cause severe and often lethal disease in humans: Sudan ebolavirus (SUDV), Bundibugyo ebolavirus (BDBV), Taï Forest ebolavirus (TAFV), and Zaire ebolavirus (EBOV) [].Historically, EBOV has caused most Ebolavirus outbreaks and cases. The devastating 2013 to 2016 EBOV epidemic in West Africa, resulting in approximately ... 05/3/2024 - 10:44 pm | View Website
Ebola Virus Disease Vaccines: Development, Current Perspectives ... Ebola vaccine development has shown and proven remarkable progress in preclinical and clinical phases. These vaccines emerged as multiple targeting potential candidates in their advanced stages. However, the obstructions and challenges related to the efficacy, potency, durability, and cost-effective methodologies in development of Ebola ... 05/3/2024 - 10:23 pm | View Website
Israel’s military has begun moving civilians out of Rafah, a possible prelude to a long-expected attack on the Gazan city.
The Israel Defense Forces “will act with extreme force against terrorist organizations in your areas of residence,” a spokesman said on X on Monday morning. He urged residents of eastern Rafah to go north to an “expanded humanitarian area” near Khan Younis, another city in Gaza.
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The move comes after cease-fire talks between Hamas and Israel in Cairo over the weekend seemingly stalled, the main sticking point being the Iran-backed militant group’s insistence that any truce is permanent.
Philippine journalist Maria Ressa, a 2021 Nobel Peace Prize recipient who has been recognized as one of TIME’s 2018 Persons of the Year as well as one of the most influential women of the century for her fight for press freedoms and against misinformation, was selected in March to deliver the principal address at Harvard University’s commencement on May 23.
Video footage of a student making racist gestures, seemingly imitating a monkey, toward a Black woman who was part of a scheduled pro-Palestinian protest at the University of Mississippi, colloquially known as Ole Miss, went viral last week, and on Sunday a fraternity announced that it had removed one member from its chapter at the school over the incident.
The Phi Delta Theta General Headquarters said in a statement that it was aware of the widely shared Ole Miss video and that “the racist actions in the video were those of an individual and are antithetical to the values of Phi Delta Theta and the Mississippi Alpha chapter.
Jack Dorsey has left the board of social networking service Bluesky, which he helped fund and popularize a year ago in the wake of regret over the sale of Twitter to Elon Musk.
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The Twitter co-founder took to the Musk-owned platform, now rebranded X, to tout his new philanthropic grants to open internet protocols, which he described as “freedom technology.” He also added X to that class of tech, elaborating only to say that corporations can build upon open protocols too.
Dorsey whittled down the list of people he follows on X to just three: Musk, Edward Snowden and Stella Assange, wife of the imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher.
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