Coronavirus Vaccine Dreams
If we get a vaccine for the coronavirus, it will immediately make our world a safer, easier, more reassuring place once again. That ’s what vaccines do. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - March 16, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Perri Klass, M.D. Tags: Vaccination and Immunization Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Children and Childhood Quarantines Smallpox Poliomyelitis Influenza Epidemics Source Type: news
Southern Research collaborating to develop coronavirus vaccine
Birmingham-based Southern Research has entered into a strategic collaboration with New York-based clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company Tonix Pharmaceuticals to support the development of a vaccine against the new coronavirus disease, COVID-19.
The vaccine is based on Tonix’s proprietary horsepox vaccine platform, TNX-801. The vaccine has been developed as a potential smallpox preventing vaccine for the U.S. strategic national stockpile and as a vaccine against monkeypox.
According to Southern… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - February 27, 2020 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Tyler Patchen Source Type: news
The Coronavirus Outbreak Should Bring Out the Best in Humanity
Pandemics are perversely democratic. They’re nasty, lethal and sneaky, but they don’t discriminate. No matter your age, ethnicity, religion, gender, or nation, you’re a part of the pathogenic constituency.
That shared vulnerability, and the resulting human collectivism—a universal response to a universal threat—is newly and vividly evident in the face of the now-global outbreak of the novel coronavirus known as 2019-nCoV. As of writing, there have been over 30,000 diagnosed cases and over 630 related deaths. A virus that emerged in a single city, Wuhan, China—indeed, in a single crowded ...
Source: TIME: Health - February 8, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jeffrey Kluger Tags: Uncategorized 2019-nCoV Infectious Disease Source Type: news
HIV Triggers Immune System'Amnesia' to Smallpox: Study
THURSDAY, Jan. 9, 2020 -- HIV infection causes a loss of immunity to smallpox, even in people who were vaccinated as kids and are taking antiretroviral drugs to restore their immune system, a new study finds.
Such " HIV-associated immune amnesia " ... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - January 9, 2020 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
HIV & #43; Patients Lose Immunity to Smallpox Despite Vaccination
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 8, 2020 -- HIV-infected patients lose immunity to smallpox despite childhood vaccination and immune reconstitution with antiretroviral therapy, according to a study published online Dec. 23 in The Journal of Infectious... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - January 8, 2020 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
HIV patients lose smallpox immunity despite childhood vaccine, AIDS drugs
(Oregon Health& Science University) HIV patients lose immunity to smallpox even though they were vaccinated against the disease as children and have had much of their immune system restored with antiretroviral therapy, according to a study published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases. Called HIV-associated immune amnesia, the finding could explain why people living with HIV still tend to have shorter lives on average than their HIV-negative counterparts despite being on antiretroviral therapy. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - January 2, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Virus multiplication in 3D
(University of W ü rzburg) Vaccinia viruses serve as a vaccine against human smallpox and as the basis of new cancer therapies. Two studies now provide fascinating insights into their unusual propagation strategy at the atomic level. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - December 12, 2019 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Vaccine Effective Against Smallpox in Military: Pivotal Trial Vaccine Effective Against Smallpox in Military: Pivotal Trial
The modified vaccinia Ankara (MVA) vaccine protected against variola infection among members of the U.S. Army, and did not raise safety concerns, the pivotal trial revealed.Reuters Health Information (Source: Medscape Allergy Headlines)
Source: Medscape Allergy Headlines - November 20, 2019 Category: Allergy & Immunology Tags: Infectious Diseases News Source Type: news
Medical News Today: Everything you need to know about smallpox vaccine scars
The smallpox vaccine has eradicated the potentially deadly disease. Anyone who has received this vaccination may notice that it left a scar. Learn more in this article. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - November 13, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses Source Type: news
Lab Worker Infected With Smallpox-Related Virus
Investigators say the worker had been briefed on the risks of working with the virus and was offered a vaccine to prevent it, but she declined to get it. (Source: WebMD Health)
Source: WebMD Health - October 30, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
World Closer Than Ever to Seeing Polio Disappear for Good
A Pakistani child receives a dose of the oral polio vaccine (OPV). Credit: Ashfaq Yusufzai/IPSBy External SourceUNITED NATIONS, Oct 25 2019 (IPS) In a “historic achievement for humanity”, two of three wild poliovirus strains have been eliminated worldwide, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Thursday, following the conclusion by a group of experts that WPV3, type three of the disease, has been eradicated completely.
The deadly viral disease is “very close” to disappearing altogether, with the number of affected children having dropped by 99 per cent since 1988, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) ann...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - October 25, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: External Source Tags: Development & Aid Global Headlines Health Poverty & SDGs Polio Source Type: news
FDA Approves Vaccine for Prevention of Smallpox, Monkeypox
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 25, 2019 -- Jynneos Smallpox and Monkeypox Vaccine, Live, Non-Replicating, was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for prevention of smallpox and monkeypox disease in adults 18 years or older who are considered at high... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - September 26, 2019 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
FDA Approves New Smallpox, Monkeypox Vaccine: What Is It For?
Here ' s what is significant about the new Jynneos Smallpox and Monkeypox Vaccine. (Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News)
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - September 25, 2019 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Bruce Y. Lee, Contributor Source Type: news
FDA Approves Vaccine Against Smallpox, Monkeypox FDA Approves Vaccine Against Smallpox, Monkeypox
The approval is in part intended to protect against the potentially devastating consequences of intentional release of the smallpox virus, and the vaccine will be included in the Strategic National Stockpile.FDA Approvals (Source: Medscape Allergy Headlines)
Source: Medscape Allergy Headlines - September 24, 2019 Category: Allergy & Immunology Tags: Infectious Diseases News Alert Source Type: news
FDA Approves Jynneos (Smallpox and Monkeypox Vaccine, Live, Non-replicating) for Prevention of Smallpox and Monkeypox Disease in Adults
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, September 24, 2019– Bavarian Nordic A/S (OMX: BAVA, OTC: BVNRY) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Jynneos™ (Smallpox and Monkeypox Vaccine, Live, Non-replicating)... (Source: Drugs.com - New Drug Approvals)
Source: Drugs.com - New Drug Approvals - September 24, 2019 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Source Type: news
