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Health The World

19. April 2023

Better Safe Than Sorry: Prepping Bird Flu Vaccines for Humans, Just in Case

In an effort to anticipate future disease outbreaks, health experts have taken the precaution of creating a bird flu vaccine for humans, staying prepared and on top of their game in the unlikely-but-possible event of an outbreak.

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Health The World

12. April 2023

Scientists See the Light at the End of the Pandemic Tunnel

Scientists now estimate that a large majority of people worldwide have some sort of immunity against SARS-CoV-2.

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Animals United States

13. January 2023

Save the Bees: World’s First Honeybee Vaccine

The United States Department of Agriculture approved the world's first honeybee vaccination to protect against a deadly infectious disease - American foulbrood - found in bees.

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Health USA

7. January 2023

A Vaccine to Fight Opioid Overdose Is in the Works

A team of researchers affiliated with the University of Houston in Texas, the United States, is developing a vaccine preventing fentanyl from entering the brain, in a potentially powerful tool against synthetic opioid overdosage.

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Health United Kingdom

14. July 2022

Global Eradication of Malaria? We’re Getting There!

A high-level efficacy vaccine against malaria developed by researchers affiliated with Oxford University, located in the United Kingdom, shows great promise for populations fighting against the mosquito-borne disease, so much so that it could lead to the global eradication of the illness by 2040.

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Health The World

10. July 2022

COVID-19: How Vaccination Efforts Saved Millions of Lives

According to a newly published study, the first large modeling of its kind, vaccination efforts against coronavirus have helped prevent some 20 million deaths from occurring across the globe.

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Health India

27. June 2022

Eradicating Rabies? They’re On It!

Thanks to mass dog vaccination as well as human education campaigns and more extensive surveillance, India’s Goa state has become the first of its nation to eradicate rabies — what’s more, in a cost-effective way!

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Health Congo

8. June 2022

Threat No More: Ebola Has Been “Defeated”!

The highly infectious hemorrhagic fever known as Ebola is now under control thanks to vaccines and a treatment developed by the very virologist who discovered the virus in Congo some 40 years ago.

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Health USA

29. April 2022

Phase 1 of New Cancer Treatment Proves (Very) Promising

The American Association of Cancer Research revealed that following the Phase 1 human trial, a new cancer treatment combining immunotherapy and an mRNA vaccine has been proven to be safe, even to treat cancers with solid tumors.

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Health Ghana

26. April 2022

First-Ever Malaria Vaccine Is Protecting a Million Children – and Counting!

Over a million children in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi have received at least one dose of the world’s first malaria vaccine — thanks to a program that was first launched in 2019 and coordinated by the World Health Organization.