Does influenza vaccine matter?
A reader of the post “Severe cases of pandemic influenza” asked whether I could comment on an article in The Atlantic which questions the efficacy of the influenza vaccine in…
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Should viral vaccines be made for profit?
…doses of vaccine that should have been available this winter. Another producer of influenza vaccine, Aventis, will supply 54 million doses to the U.S. A very different influenza vaccine is…
ACIP recommendations on monovalent H1N1 vaccine
…important point is that the seasonal influenza vaccines will not provide protection against the 2009 pandemic influenza H1N1 virus. This trivalent vaccine (containing seasonal H1N1, H3N2, and influenza B virus…
Are you receiving the influenza 2009 H1N1 vaccine?
…should take the vaccines or not. I just hope it doesn’t spread to other vaccines. I’ve heard from a few health related workers that they won’t take the vaccines because…
Reconstruction of 1918-like avian influenza virus stirs concern over gain of function experiments
…neighboring cages). The 1918 influenza virus was transmitted to 2 of 3 ferrets. Neither the 1918-like avian influenza virus, nor the 1976 duck influenza virus transmitted among ferrets. Aerosol transmission…
Poliovirus vaccine litigation
The oral poliovirus vaccine strains (OPV) developed by Albert Sabin were licensed in the United States in 1962, and over the next 37 years immunization with these vaccines lead to…