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Experimental Vaccine for Deadly Tickborne Virus Effective in Cynomolgus Macaques

Nov. 30, 2020 — An experimental vaccine developed in Europe to prevent infection by Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus (CCHFV) has protected cynomolgus macaques ...

MMR Vaccine Could Protect Against COVID-19, Study Shows

Nov. 20, 2020 — The measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine has been theorized to provide protection against COVID-19. In a new study, researchers provide further proof of this by showing that mumps IgG titers, or ...

Engineered Immune Cells Elicit Broad Response to HIV in Mice, Offering Hope for Vaccine

Nov. 19, 2020 — Unlike so many other deadly viruses, HIV still lacks a vaccine. The virus has proven especially tricky to prevent with conventional antibodies, in ...

Measles Outbreaks Likely in Wake of COVID-19 Pandemic

Nov. 16, 2020 — Major measles outbreaks will likely occur during 2021 as an unexpected consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new academic ...

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Cancer Survivors at Higher Risk of Hospitalization or Dying from Flu

Nov. 30, 2020 — Survivors from a wide range of cancers are more likely than people in the general population to be hospitalized or die from seasonal influenza even several years after their cancer diagnosis, ...

Need to Increase HPV Vaccine Uptake in Adolescents

Dec. 1, 2020 — More than 90 percent of human papillomavirus (HPV)-related cancers could be prevented by widespread uptake of the HPV vaccine. Yet, vaccine use in the United States falls short of public health ...

Meningococcus B Vaccine Prevents Disease With 79 Per Cent Effectiveness in Under-18s

Dec. 1, 2020 — Meningococcus group B, the most prevalent strain of meningococcal infection, is prevented with 79 per cent effectiveness in children and young adults ...

COVID-19 Studies Should Also Focus on Mucosal Immunity, Researchers Argue

Nov. 30, 2020 — More COVID-19 studies should be devoted to how immunity emerges to SARS-CoV-2 in the mucous membranes of the nose and mouth, a new paper ...

SARS-CoV-2 Mutations Do Not Appear to Increase Transmissibility

Nov. 25, 2020 — None of the mutations currently documented in the SARS-CoV-2 virus appear to increase its transmissibility in humans, according to a new ...

Therapeutic PD-1 Cancer Vaccine Shown to Be Safe and Effective in Animal Study

Nov. 23, 2020 — A study has described a potential therapeutic anticancer vaccine that frees suppressed cancer-killing immune cells, enabling them to attack and ...

Potential Cholera Vaccine Target Discovered

Nov. 17, 2020 — Investigators analyzed antibodies recovered from humans who survived cholera. Experiments showed that the antibodies block V. cholerae bacteria's ...

How the Polio Vaccine Virus Occasionally Becomes Dangerous

Nov. 18, 2020 — The polio vaccines heralded the elimination of polio from the U.S., saving countless children from sudden paralysis and death. In the developing world, however, outbreaks of poliovirus still occur ...

New Saliva-Based Antibody Test for SARS-CoV-2 Highly Accurate in Initial Study

Nov. 13, 2020 — A new saliva-based test has been found to accurately detect the presence of antibodies to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, from small ...