Data on the number of cases for these diseases from the pre-vaccine era is hard to come by, and even the case counts are ...

Yet unlike other commonplace infections such as seasonal flu and COVID, no vaccine exists to help people avoid being sidelined by norovirus, a notoriously transmissible and resilient virus that is ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s failure to install a fellow vaccine critic to a key government post is testing the limits of how far the US health secretary can go to promote his public-health agenda.

In this article, we'll uncover the history behind smallpox and its defeat, journey through ... The smallpox vaccine, derived from the vaccinia virus, became a game-changer in the fight against ...

In the early, uncertain days of the coronavirus pandemic, scientists delivered one comforting pronouncement: The virus that caused COVID mutates rather slowly. If that remained true, the virus would ...

That is partly because prior attempts have focused on developing injectable vaccines, which are less good at generating protective antibodies in the intestine, where the virus replicates ...

As viral vaccines are increasingly used to meet global health needs, the pharmaceutical industry is manufacturing larger ...

Successful vaccines already existed for diseases such as smallpox. For each virus, a vaccine must be custom-made, but the principles are the same: if your body is exposed to a very weak or small ...

More than 40 years after it was identified, the Ebola virus continues to defy drugs, treatment plans—and experts’ best efforts to solve its mysteries. Ebola vaccine has to be kept cold.

Zydus Lifesciences on Wednesday (February 26, 2025) said it is introducing a vaccine for protection against new strain of influenza virus. “The company is introducing country’s first flu ...

has issued the company a conditional license for its Avian Influenza Vaccine, H5N2 Subtype, Killed Virus. The vaccine is labelled for use in chickens. The conditional license was granted on the ...