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 ...

A long-lasting formulation of an antiviral drug greatly reduced people’s risk of a symptomatic flu infection in a trial, and ...

Health Norovirus vaccine pill shows promise against 'winter vomiting' bug. Most people recover from norovirus, a highly contagious infection, within a few days but it can be particularly risky for ...

Mr. Quammen is a science writer and the author of the forthcoming book “Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus.” The Covid-19 pandemic has been a lesson in speed — the ...

All vaccines work by training our immune systems to recognise a harmless piece of a virus or bacteria so that when the real thing is encountered later, the immune system is prepared to defeat it ...

And Vaxart's vaccine isn't the only one in the pipeline, nor is it the furthest along. Moderna has a norovirus vaccine in a Phase 3 trial , which is a larger study that will look at efficacy.

Once neck and neck with Valneva to get the first chikungunya vaccine to market, it now looks like Merck & Co. has admitted defeat as its French rival reaches the finish line. Merck’s contender ...

In 2015, the Zika virus — which had previously rarely infected humans — suddenly spread rapidly, leading to more than a million cases over two years. Even worse, scientists observed a ...

A temperature-sensitive baculovirus modification, BacFree ts, enables production of virus-like particle vaccines in insect cells with up to 99.97% less baculovirus contamination.

In October, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that high-risk adults get a second updated Covid vaccine to bolster their protection against the virus. The agency now ...

Vaccines for mpox are finally reaching Africa. But questions about the virus remain. Mpox’s rapid spread in Africa raises concerns it may now be more infectious and more severe ...

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