Monkeypox Cases Prompt Additional Contracts for Bavarian Nordic Vaccine
Bavarian Nordic's smallpox vaccine is approved for use against monkeypox by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Health Canada. ...
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Novavax Missed Its Global Moonshot but Is Angling to Win Over mRNA Defectors
Novavax hitched its wagon to the global coronavirus pandemic. Before most Americans truly grasped the scope of the danger, the ...
NIH to Further Invest in Point-of-Care Technologies Research Network
Expanded funding will support activieitechnology development and clinical testing of prototype point-of-care systems. The National Institute for Biomedical Imaging and ...
How a COVID-19 Infection Spurs Antibodies Against Common Colds
Scientists at Scripps Research analyzing coronavirus antibodies found more antibodies that recognize other, related viruses in people who had been ...
Hospitals Resilience to Extreme Events: One-Third of Staff May Be Lost During a Disaster
New research warns that UK hospitals face losing significant capacity and some vital services during extreme events or disasters due ...
Where is Testing Needed Most During Pandemic Surges? WVU Researchers Develop Machine Learning Prediction Tools
West Virginia University scientists are applying machine learning and geographic data to understand where places with low vaccination rates need ...
Supplemental Funding for Research at NIAID Regional Biocontainment Laboratories
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is supporting administrative supplement applications for funding from eligible investigators at National Institute of ...
Design Phase Kicks Off for New $750M Wadsworth Public Health Laboratory
New Laboratory Will Boost Preparedness for Future Public Health Crises The State of New York has awarded an initial design contract to ...
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Opens Grant Program to Shore Up Avian Flu Biosecurity
This new federal assistance program is designed to increase readiness for wildlife agencies to protect against future pandemics and encourage ...
Send in the Blow Flies: Using Insects to Sample Areas for Chemical Warfare Agents
Researchers at the School of Science at IUPUI have found that blow flies can be used as chemical sensors, with ...
New Research on Building Blocks of Poxviruses Could Lead to Antiviral Drugs
Scientists uncover how poxviruses form their protein scaffold from a building block called D13, which could lead to the development ...
NIH Awards $3M Grant to Albany Med for Plague Vaccine Development
Albany Medical College scientists have been awarded a $3 million, five-year federal grant to develop a vaccine that could protect ...
Bird Flu is Killing Millions of Chickens and Turkeys Across the US
An outbreak of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in chicken and turkey flocks has spread across 24 U.S. states since it ...
Long COVID Leaves Newly Disabled People Facing Old Barriers
Up to one-third of COVID-19 survivors will acquire the condition known as long or long-haul COVID-19. The American Academy of ...
Nominate Experts for National Academies’ Committee to Counter Misleading Information about Biological Threats
Inaccurate and misleading information about biological threats have become commonplace, presenting challenges to effective outbreak control, seeding distrust among affected ...
‘Test and Treat’ is Being Used to Tackle HIV. Why Not TB?
TB is caused by a bacterium called Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Not everyone who gets infected with the bacterium will get sick. ...
Will the BA.2 Subvariant Cause Another Wave of Infections in the US?
A new omicron subvariant of the virus that causes COVID-19, BA.2, is quickly becoming the predominant source of infections amid ...
As New Zealand Relaxes Restrictions, Steps Can Still Be Taken to Limit COVID Infections
New Zealanders are about to enjoy cautiously relaxed COVID restrictions under the country’s COVID-19 Protection Framework, starting from this weekend. ...
Antibody Shows Promise for Developing Hantavirus Treatment
An international research team discovered the first human antibody to effectively neutralize two types of hantaviruses in animal models, according ...
Some PASC Patients May Experience Long-Lasting Airway Disease — Even if They Only Had Mild COVID-19
Patients in this study with post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC), or 'Long Covid', experienced small airway disease independent of initial ...
