Articles for Vaccine

Gaza toddlers got the polio vaccine, then an Israeli bomb took their legs
14 hours, 50 minutes ago

Gaza toddlers got the polio vaccine, then an Israeli bomb took their legs

Al Jazeera  

Deir el-Balah, Gaza – Three-year-old Hanan al-Daqqi spends her days with her younger sister Misk, occasionally asking questions. “Where’s Mama?” “Where did my legs go?” The two toddlers have been in the hospital for four months since they were brought there, battered and bleeding from an Israeli bombing, and had their legs amputated. It killed 25-year-old Shaima and injured the …

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Could mosquitoes deliver vaccines against malaria?
2 days, 14 hours ago

Could mosquitoes deliver vaccines against malaria?

Al Jazeera  

Scientists have engineered the pests to provide enhanced immunity to the disease they transmit, according to a new study. Their scientists say they have successfully engineered mosquitoes to deliver vaccines that could potentially provide significantly enhanced immunity against malaria. In the clinical trial, the research team used mosquitoes carrying the modified parasite to deliver the vaccine via bites, mirroring the …

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A grim feeling of déjà vu on vaccine misinformation and the bird flu
2 days, 14 hours ago

A grim feeling of déjà vu on vaccine misinformation and the bird flu

LA Times  

It is Saturday, Dec. 21. In an op-ed column, Robin Abcarian raises alarm over an effort by RFK Jr.’s close advisor two years ago to cancel the polio vaccine and speaks with a survivor of the illness that, prior to the 1950s, often killed or disabled children. In another op-ed piece, writer Susan Hall tells of her son’s productive, “enriched” …

Newsom
Karachi mob attacks polio vaccination team, 6 people arrested
2 days, 20 hours ago

Karachi mob attacks polio vaccination team, 6 people arrested

ABP News  

Karachi, Dec 20 : A polio vaccination team and their police escort were attacked on Friday by a mob during a vaccination drive in a densely populated area of Pakistan's Karachi city. “The polio team went to a house for administering the vaccine drops where the women present called two armed men and they attacked not only the health workers …

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Rwanda and WHO declare end of Marburg outbreak after no new cases reported
3 days, 3 hours ago

Rwanda and WHO declare end of Marburg outbreak after no new cases reported

Associated Press  

KIGALI, Rwanda — The World Health Organization and the Rwandan government on Friday declared the outbreak in Rwanda of the Ebola-like Marburg fever over after no new cases were registered in recent weeks. An outbreak is considered over after 42 days — two 21-day incubation cycles of the virus — elapsed without registering new cases and all existing cases test …

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Louisiana Department of Health ordered to stop promotion of vaccines
3 days, 14 hours ago

Louisiana Department of Health ordered to stop promotion of vaccines

Salon  

Louisiana officials Department of Health employees were ordered to stop promoting common vaccinations, including immunizations against COVID-19, influenza and mpox. While we pivoted our attention to the damaging pending impact of an RFK Jr appointment, our local health department was already carrying out many of the very things we feared re: vaccine disinformation,” Louisiana pediatrician Kim Mukerjee said in a …

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Fresh flu warning as explosion shows 'no signs of letting up' - with hospitalisations up 50 per cent in a week, say health chiefs
4 days, 4 hours ago

Fresh flu warning as explosion shows 'no signs of letting up' - with hospitalisations up 50 per cent in a week, say health chiefs

Daily Mail  

Britain is being battered by a tidal wave of festive flu, health chiefs warned today. Surveillance programmes that monitor the UK's outbreak suggest flu hospital admissions in England have already surpassed last year's peak and are running at their highest level so far this winter. Surveillance programmes that monitor the UK's outbreak suggest flu hospital admissions in England have already …

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Russia claims it developed first cancer vaccine in big breakthrough, says 'will distribute for free'
4 days, 14 hours ago

Russia claims it developed first cancer vaccine in big breakthrough, says 'will distribute for free'

India TV News  

The deadly disease, cancer is almost incurable to date and people are terrified of it. This vaccine makes the body's immune system so strong that as soon as any cell starts moving towards becoming a cancer cell, the body's immunity destroys it. An mRNA vaccine uses a small fragment of messenger RNA to instruct the body's cells to produce a …

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'I don't know what Tommy Tuberville is talking about': Expert blasts GOP senator
4 days, 23 hours ago

'I don't know what Tommy Tuberville is talking about': Expert blasts GOP senator

Raw Story  

A public health expert scorned Sen. Tommy Tuberville's analysis of vaccine mandates as illogical and unscientific. The Alabama Republican met with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is Donald Trump's nominee for health secretary, and came away saying that they agreed that children are required to get too many vaccines instead of just three, as both septuagenarians had gotten as children …

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Telangana: Class 10 student paralysed after multiple rat bites, anti-rabies vaccine overdose
5 days, 14 hours ago

Telangana: Class 10 student paralysed after multiple rat bites, anti-rabies vaccine overdose

India TV News  

In a shocking incident, a Class 10 student residing in the BC Welfare Hostel at Danavaigudem, Khammam town in Telangana suffered paralysis in one leg and one arm. The incident came to the limelight on Wednesday when the condition of the student resulted from an overdose of an anti-rabies vaccine administered after rats bit the student. Identified as Samudra Laxmi …

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Russia develops new mRNA vaccine against cancer: Report
5 days, 14 hours ago

Russia develops new mRNA vaccine against cancer: Report

India Today  

Russia has developed its own cancer vaccine, the country's news agency TASS has reported. It is an mRNA vaccine against cancer and will be distributed to patients free of charge, General Director of the Radiology Medical Research Centre of the Russian Ministry of Health, Andrey Kaprin, told Radio Rossiya. Previously, Alexander Gintsburg, Director of the Gamaleya National Research Centre for …

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Telangana student paralysed after rat bites, alleged anti-rabies vaccine overdose
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5 days, 14 hours ago

Telangana student paralysed after rat bites, alleged anti-rabies vaccine overdose

India Today  

A Class 10 student residing in the BC Welfare Hostel at Danavaigudem, Khammam town in Telangana, has reportedly suffered paralysis in one leg and one arm. The condition allegedly resulted from an overdose of an anti-rabies vaccine administered after the student was bitten by rodents. Samudra Laxmi Bhavani Keerthi, a student at the Government Backward Class Girls Residential High School …

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How much power would RFK Jr. have at HHS? A former health secretary weighs in
5 days, 14 hours ago

How much power would RFK Jr. have at HHS? A former health secretary weighs in

NPR  

How much power would RFK Jr. have at HHS? A former health secretary weighs in toggle caption Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is on Capitol Hill this week, trying to convince senators that they should greenlight him to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, ahead of expected confirmation hearings. In contrast, Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden said …

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Russia develops mRNA cancer vaccine, will distribute it for free
5 days, 14 hours ago

Russia develops mRNA cancer vaccine, will distribute it for free

India Today  

Amid the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, Russia has come up with a vaccine for cancer. The vaccine aims to treat cancer patients rather than prevent tumour formation in patients. This personalised cancer vaccine makes use of parts of a patient's own tumour to teach the immune system to battle the disease. Whereas traditional vaccines use parts of a virus to prevent …

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Column: The latest evidence that putting RFK Jr. in charge of public health would be a disaster
5 days, 14 hours ago

Column: The latest evidence that putting RFK Jr. in charge of public health would be a disaster

LA Times  

Polio came for 5-year-old Lynn Lane when she was visiting her grandmother in rural Indiana. “I’m not in a wheelchair yet,” said Lane, who uses leg braces and crutches, “but it’s heading that way.” The idea that anyone would question the polio vaccine now, she said, “makes me nuts.” Last week, the New York Times reported that in 2022, Robert …

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15 rat bites, overdose of anti-rabies vax paralyse girl in Khammam
5 days, 14 hours ago

15 rat bites, overdose of anti-rabies vax paralyse girl in Khammam

New Indian Express  

KHAMMAM: A Class X student, Samudra Laxmi Bhavani Keerthi, of BC residential school at Danavaigudem in Khammam town has been left paralysed for a suspected overdose of anti-rabies vaccine after she was bitten by rodents 15 times between March and November. Her mother, Samudra Bindu, told TNIE: “They administered 15 injections between March and November, whenever rats bit Keerthi. She …

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GOP senator: 'Everybody here has lost someone' — possibly from the COVID vaccine
5 days, 15 hours ago

GOP senator: 'Everybody here has lost someone' — possibly from the COVID vaccine

Raw Story  

A Republican senator launched into an anti-vaccine rant Tuesday when reporters asked about confirming noted health conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be President-elect Donald Trump's secretary of Health and Human Services. There is no evidence that the modern vaccine schedule "overwhelms" or "overloads" a baby's immune system. The senator then went on to baselessly suggest that "everybody" in …

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‘This is a lie’: RFK Jr. criticized by experts, including Trump Surgeon General
5 days, 20 hours ago

‘This is a lie’: RFK Jr. criticized by experts, including Trump Surgeon General

Raw Story  

Medical experts, including Donald Trump’s first-term Surgeon General, are questioning Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s nomination for Secretary of Health and Human Services and urging the Senate to uphold its "obligation" to conduct a thorough vetting process, following resurfaced remarks RFK Jr. made last year about the polio vaccine, suggesting it "killed many, many more people" than polio ever did. Responding …

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RFK reverses course on polio vaccine amid pressure from GOP
6 days, 12 hours ago

RFK reverses course on polio vaccine amid pressure from GOP

Raw Story  

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. backed off on his long-spoken desire to revoke approval for the polio vaccine – a hint that he is attempting to calm concerns about his controversial vaccine positions after President-elect Donald Trump chose him to become the country’s next health secretary. Kennedy’s flip flop came Monday when he told reporters he was “all for” the polio …

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Key takeaways from Donald Trump's first post-election news conference
6 days, 14 hours ago

Key takeaways from Donald Trump's first post-election news conference

India Today  

President-elect Donald Trump on Monday held a wide-ranging news conference in which he said he would preserve access to the polio vaccine but equivocated on other vaccines, pledged to look at bringing down the costs of pharmaceuticals and expressed doubts that his daughter-in-law might be Florida’s next senator. Here’s a look at some of what he touched on: Trump provides …

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Five years of National Biopharma Mission: Has it made healthcare affordable in India?
6 days, 14 hours ago

Five years of National Biopharma Mission: Has it made healthcare affordable in India?

India Today  

In May 2017, the Government of India launched the National Biopharma Mission, an ambitious initiative under the Department of Biotechnology to strengthen the biopharmaceutical sector. The National Biopharma Mission focused on two key goals: developing new products and creating a supportive ecosystem for innovation. "In the last five years, facilities for vaccine and biotherapeutic trials, manufacturing clinical batches, analytical testing …

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Trump seemed to entertain a discredited theory on autism. This is what’s behind the rising rates
6 days, 18 hours ago

Trump seemed to entertain a discredited theory on autism. This is what’s behind the rising rates

Associated Press  

President-elect Donald Trump seemed to entertain the discredited theory that vaccines cause autism as he answered questions from journalists at a press conference Monday at his Mar-a-Lago club. Trump, seeming to respond to Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell’s defense of the polio vaccine, called himself “a big believer in it.” “You’re not going to lose the polio vaccine,” Trump said. …

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BJMC first govt. medical college in Maha to start HPV vaccination for female docs, staff
6 days, 19 hours ago

BJMC first govt. medical college in Maha to start HPV vaccination for female docs, staff

Hindustan Times  

From Tuesday, the B J Medical College and Sassoon General Hospital will begin Human Papilloma Virus vaccination for female doctors and hospital staff. The BJMC will be the first government medical college in Maharashtra to conduct such an immunisation drive, officials said. Dr Yallapa Jadhav, medical superintendent, BJMC and SGH, said, “The HPV vaccine is a vaccine used for the …

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‘Should be looked at’: Trump again speaks against mandates for childhood diseases vaccines
6 days, 19 hours ago

‘Should be looked at’: Trump again speaks against mandates for childhood diseases vaccines

Raw Story  

President-elect Donald Trump, in a wide-ranging press conference from Mar-a-Lago on Monday, declared he doesn't like vaccine mandates for childhood diseases, blamed Democrats for them, and appeared to be unaware that every state in the nation has childhood vaccine mandates that include many if not most or all of the CDC's recommended vaccination schedule of 15 immunizations from birth to …

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