KwaZulu-Natal leaders intensify efforts to combat the foot-and-mouth disease outbreak, as vaccine shipments arrive and urgent ...

The vaccine maker’s shots involve the successful Covid vaccines’ RNA technology. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has ...

In a winter marked by flu outbreaks, the persistence of COVID-19, and surges of measles cases across the United States, an ...

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But the first locally-produced vaccine could become a major ally in fighting the disease.

Agriculture Minister John Steenhuisen visited the Agricultural Research Council’s (ARC) Onderstepoort Veterinary Research (OVR) campus for the handover of the first locally produced foot-and-mouth ...

South Africa has begun the first human trials of a locally developed HIV vaccine to defeat a virus that still kills around one person per minute worldwide.

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The effectiveness of last season's COVID vaccines among immunocompetent adults reached 40% against hospitalization and 79% ...

While now-common antiviral drugs (AVRs) knock back levels of HIV in both blood and tissues, they don’t overcome one major ...

Researchers at WashU Medicine have developed a nasal vaccine against the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza virus, or bird flu, which has jumped from wild birds to livestock to humans.