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A new vaccine can effectively prevent multiple types of cancer, with up to 88 percent efficacy for some forms of tumor in mouse tests. Like a vaccine designed to prevent or reduce illness from viral infections, this cancer vaccine works by training the immune system to attack tumors when they next appear. Nanoparticles in the vaccine present a recognizable component …

If you spot a fishy-looking ketchup packet in Prospect Park or Upper Manhattan, don’t panic: It’s part of the city’s annual effort to vaccinate raccoons against rabies. The city’s health department is distributing oral rabies vaccines this fall in raccoon-heavy areas of Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan to curb the spread of the deadly virus among wildlife. Officials said 18 raccoons, …

Phylogenetic tree construction All available A(H5) HA nucleotide sequences and accompanying metadata were downloaded from the GISAID Data Science Initiative60 and the Bacterial and Viral Bioinformatics Resource Center (BV-BRC)61 databases on 5 May 2023. The HA sequences of three antigens present in-house (A/Vietnam/3218/2004, A/duck/Hong-Kong/1091/2011 and A/eurasian-wigeon/Netherlands/EMC-3/2014), which were not yet available through the above mentioned databases at the time, were …

Trump Rattles Vaccine Experts Over Aluminum  The New York Times Source link

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is distributing bait packets containing an oral rabies vaccine across 14 central and north Alabama counites to try to reduce rabies in raccoons and the related public health risks. The Alabama Department of Public Health announced that the USDA Wildlife Services is using low-flying planes and helicopters to drop coated sachet baits with the RABORAL …

In what could become a game-changing step towards defeating cancer, scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have developed a ‘super vaccine’ that completely prevented the disease from forming in laboratory mice. The experimental vaccine, powered by a special immune-boosting formula, helped the animals’ immune systems recognise and destroy cancer cells before they could grow into tumours. In multiple tests, …

Dr. Andrew Miller knew something was up. The North Carolina pediatrician saw nearly a dozen new patients at his practice over the span of a couple of weeks last year, all of whom were opting out of their children receiving some or all vaccines.  After the pattern became clear, Miller, a board-certified physician who supports the vaccine schedule, eventually asked …

Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have shown that their nanoparticle-based vaccine can successfully prevent several aggressive cancers in mice, including melanoma, pancreatic cancer, and triple-negative breast cancer. Depending on the cancer type, up to 88% of vaccinated mice stayed tumor-free (depending on the cancer), and the vaccine also reduced — and in some cases completely prevented — the …

A 13-year-old girl who had not received the seasonal influenza vaccination has died in hospital following an infection, the first paediatric flu-related death in Hong Kong this year. The previously healthy girl developed symptoms including a fever, coughing, a sore throat, and a runny nose from Sunday last week, according to the Centre for Health Protection (CHP). Her condition worsened …

The White House released a memo Friday from President Donald Trump’s physician summarizing his visit to Walter Reed Army Medical Center earlier in the day, which included a Covid vaccine booster and a flu shot. Trump’s doctor, Sean P. Barbarella, said in the one-page document that Trump “remains in exceptional health, exhibiting strong cardiovascular, pulmonary, neurological, and physical performance.” Trump’s …