One of the dangers of the new coronavirus is that there is no treatment – and no vaccine. But researchers had already been at work on vaccines for close-related viruses.
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Measles infection can be easily managed with prompt health care and symptom management. But without care, mild symptoms can turn into life threatening secondary infections or long-term effects.
There are more effective ways to give the tuberculosis vaccine.
Smallpox is the only disease to be eradicated through sustained human effort. Many of these volunteers were women who defied social norms to save lives in India.
Responding to someone who questions vaccination can be difficult. Before you react, it pays to assess the situation because weighing in can do more harm than good.
You no longer have to go to your GP to get your flu shot or catch up on vaccinations you missed earlier in life or have waning immunity to. But they’re unlikely to be free.
Rwanda’s government has taken concerted, deliberate steps over the past 25 years to build a strong health system.
We need to investigate the overall health effects of vaccines.
Anti-vaccine info online might have foreign roots and political aims.
Two deadly viruses are ravaging the DRC. Why are we only hearing about one of them?
In some countries, parents are fined if they don’t vaccinate their child or they have to go on a course before being granted an exemption to vaccinate. Are any of these options right for Australia?
A challenge in eradicating polio comes from a version of the vaccine itself, which relies on live but attenuated virus. Rationally designing a new vaccine could help get rid of polio once and for all.
Studies have shown that the reasons for anti-vaccine sentiment run deep, and scientific facts don’t often matter. A new study drills deeper into reasons for resistance and possible ways to counteract them.
When a certain percentage of a population has been vaccinated, it prevents an infectious disease from spreading. But that threshold depends on the disease.
When it comes to flu, information can range from confusion about what it actually is, to speculation about how it’s transmitted.
Deliberately infecting people with a disease-causing agent as part of carefully considered medical research can be ethically acceptable or even necessary.
Babies are normally vaccinated against measles at 12 months old. But doctors are now suggesting having the shot as early as six months might be worthwhile for youngsters traveling overseas.
The flu vaccine takes about two weeks to start working and only protects against influenza, so you can still get sick from other viruses after your flu shot.
The 2018-2019 flu season was less deadly than the last. But the pattern of infection was unusual, thanks to the various strains circulating and the way flu shots work over time.
Outbreaks often affect the same areas because, once released, the bacteria continues to live as spores in the soil.
Principales colaboradores
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Vice-Chancellor's Research Fellow, School of Health and Biomedical Sciences, RMIT University
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Professor of Medicine, University of Virginia
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Research associate, Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Brown University
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Lecturer in Virology, Queen's University Belfast
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Professor of Microbiology, School of Medicine, University of Washington
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Professor of Immunology, Vice-Chancellors Distinguished Professorial Fellow, Head of Immunology and Translational Research, Victoria University
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Dean Faculty of Health Sciences and Professor of Vaccinology at University of the Witwatersrand; and Director of the SAMRC Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Analytics Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate Professor of Biology, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Professor of Immunology, RMIT University
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Associate Professor and ARC Future Fellow, The University of Western Australia
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, Oklahoma State University
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Senior Lecturer; MD, Victoria University
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Associate Professor, Discipline of Childhood and Adolescent Health, University of Sydney
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Professor, Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Sydney
