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June 26, 2025

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Earlier Measles Vaccine Could Help Curb Global Outbreak

May 30, 2025 — The global measles outbreak must trigger an urgent debate into whether a vaccine should be recommended earlier to better protect against the highly contagious disease during infancy, a new review ...

Two HIV Vaccine Trials Show Proof of Concept for Pathway to Broadly Neutralizing Antibodies

May 16, 2025 — A decades-long scientific challenge in HIV vaccine development has been finding a way to train the immune system to produce antibodies that can target many variants of the virus. Traditional ...

Measles Virus Detected in Houston Wastewater Before Cases Were Reported

May 12, 2025 — An innovative outbreak detection program that tracks disease-causing viruses in wastewater identified the measles virus in Houston samples collected in early January 2025, before cases were ...

Experts Stress Importance of Vaccination Amidst Measles Outbreaks

Apr. 15, 2025 — Pediatric infectious diseases experts stress the importance of vaccination against measles, one of the most contagious viruses, which is once more spreading in the United ...

A Mysterious Pathogen: Oropouche Virus More Common in Latin America Than Previously Thought

Apr. 14, 2025 — Like the dengue and Zika viruses, Oropouche virus causes a febrile illness. There are recent indications that infections during pregnancy can cause damage to unborn babies. Researchers have now ...

Viral 'Backbone' Underlies Variation in Rotavirus Vaccine Effectiveness

Apr. 8, 2025 — Researchers have shown that differences in the entire rotavirus genome -- not just its two surface proteins -- affect how well vaccines work, helping to explain why some strains are more likely to infect vaccinated ...

New Brain Organoid Model

Apr. 3, 2025 — Organoids have revolutionized science and medicine, providing platforms for disease modeling, drug testing, and understanding developmental processes. While not exact replicas of human organs, they offer significant insights. Scientists now present ...

Study Strengthens Link Between Shingles Vaccine and Lower Dementia Risk

Apr. 2, 2025 — A new analysis of a vaccination program in Wales found that the shingles vaccine appeared to lower new dementia diagnoses by 20% -- more than any other known ...

How Zika Virus Knocks out Our Immune Defenses

Mar. 25, 2025 — This research comes as many mosquito-borne viruses are spreading ...

New Data on Mpox Vaccine Effectiveness

Mar. 20, 2025 — A study has found that a single dose of the Imvanex vaccine provides protection against Mpox with 84% effectiveness. For people with HIV, however, a single dose of the vaccine fails to offer sufficient protection. All at-risk groups, and people with ...

Breakthrough in Next-Generation Polio Vaccines

Mar. 11, 2025 — A more affordable, lower-risk polio vaccine is on the horizon, research has ...

As Dengue Spreads, Researchers Discover a Clue to Fighting the Virus

Feb. 24, 2025 — This research comes as dengue-carrying mosquitoes expand their territory into new regions, including Southern ...

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Hidden Genetic Causes of Congenital Heart Disease Identified

Feb. 20, 2025 — Scientists have identified novel genetic interactions that may contribute to congenital heart disease (CHD), a common birth ...

Child Undernutrition May Be Contributing to Global Measles Outbreaks, Researchers Find

Jan. 16, 2025 — Amid a global surge in measles cases, new research suggests that undernutrition may be exacerbating outbreaks in areas suffering from food ...

'Unbreakable' Lassa Vaccine Shows Promising Results

Dec. 27, 2024 — A live-attenuated vaccine under development is safe and 100% effective against Lassa virus in preclinical ...

Public Shows Greater Acceptance of RSV Vaccine as Vaccine Hesitancy Appears to Have Plateaued

Dec. 23, 2024 — A year after becoming available, vaccines to protect against RSV in newborns and older adults are being more widely accepted by the American public, ...

Scientists Design Workaround That Improves Response to Flu Vaccine

Dec. 19, 2024 — Stitching together four molecules found in the standard flu vaccine ensures an immune response to all of them, scientists have ...

Potential Single-Dose Smallpox and Mpox Vaccine Moves Forward

Nov. 14, 2024 — An FDA-approved vaccine for smallpox and mpox is effective but causes side effects. The other requires multiple doses. An experimental single-dose vaccine uses the horsepox virus to harness the ...

In a Warming World, Public Needs to Know More About Protections from Mosquito-Borne Illnesses

Oct. 10, 2024 — Driven in part by climate change, epidemics from mosquito-spread viruses are occurring with increasing frequency. Yet few among the American public ...

Researchers Confront New US and Global Challenges in Vaccinations of Adults

Oct. 7, 2024 — Over the past decade, decreasing vaccination rates now threaten the huge beneficial impacts of vaccinations in the U.S. and globally. Researchers discuss the multifactorial barriers including ...

Researchers Develop Promising Lassa Fever Vaccine

Sep. 13, 2024 — A promising Lassa fever vaccine shows potential to prevent severe disease and death in ...

Investigational Mpox mRNA Vaccine Reduces Disease Severity in Primates Compared to Available Vaccines

Sep. 4, 2024 — The most frequently used mpox vaccine provides partial immunity to the disease but isn't always able to prevent severe symptoms or disease ...

Study of 18 Million People Finds Increased Mental Illnesses Incidence Following Severe COVID-19, Especially in Unvaccinated People

Aug. 21, 2024 — A new study that examined health data on 18 million people reveals higher incidence of mental illnesses for up to a year following severe COVID-19 in unvaccinated ...

Candidate Malaria Vaccine Provides Lasting Protection in NIH-Sponsored Trials

Aug. 14, 2024 — Recent trials of an experimental malaria vaccine in healthy Malian adults found that all three tested regimens were safe. One of the trials enrolled 300 healthy women ages 18 to 38 years who ...

New Two-Step Flu Vaccine Strategy Shows Promise in Pig Model

Aug. 9, 2024 — A new, two-step flu vaccination strategy that pairs intramuscular injection of a viral vectored flu vaccine with nasal spray administration of a novel attenuated live flu virus appears to be safe and ...

Nasal COVID-19 Vaccine Halts Transmission, Animal Study Finds

July 31, 2024 — A nasal COVID-19 vaccine blocks transmission of the virus, according to an animal study. The findings suggest that vaccines delivered directly to the nose or mouth could play a critical role in ...

Virus That Causes COVID-19 Is Widespread in Wildlife, Scientists Find

July 29, 2024 — SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, is widespread among wildlife species, according to new research. The virus was detected in six common backyard species, and antibodies indicating prior ...

How Evolution Tamed a Deadly Virus and Why We Should Still Worry

July 25, 2024 — Over the last century, a once-deadly mosquito-borne virus has evolved so that it no longer sickens humans. New research shows that changes in the virus's ability to target human cells paralleled ...

Study Shows Promise for a Universal Influenza Vaccine

July 19, 2024 — New research reveals a promising approach to developing a universal influenza vaccine -- a so-called 'one and done' vaccine that confers lifetime immunity against an evolving virus. The ...

Risk of Long COVID Declined Over Course of Pandemic

July 17, 2024 — The risk of long COVID has declined over the course of the pandemic, although it remains a persistent threat. Researchers identified vaccination as a primary factor in reducing the risk of long ...

A Promising Weapon Against Measles

June 27, 2024 — What happens when measles virus meets a human cell? The viral machinery unfolds in just the right way to reveal key pieces that let it fuse itself into the host cell ...

Local Disparities May Prevent National Vaccination Efforts for Rubella

May 29, 2024 — An international team developed a new model, based on a case study of Nigeria, that may help public health officials accelerate the introduction of rubella vaccination in countries that have yet to ...

Century-Old Vaccine Protects Type 1 Diabetics from Infectious Diseases

May 23, 2024 — Researchers conducted a Phase III trial to test the 100-year-old Bacillus Calmette-Gu rin (BCG) vaccine in people with type 1 diabetes during the COVID-19 ...

A Trial HIV Vaccine Triggered Elusive and Essential Antibodies in Humans

May 17, 2024 — An HIV vaccine candidate triggered low levels of an elusive type of broadly neutralizing HIV antibodies among a small group of people enrolled in a 2019 clinical ...

Birth by C-Section More Than Doubles Odds of Measles Vaccine Failure

May 13, 2024 — Birth by C-section more than doubles odds of measles vaccine failure. Researchers say it is vital that children born by caesarean section receive two doses of the measles vaccine for robust ...

New Vaccine Effective Against Coronaviruses That Haven't Even Emerged Yet

May 6, 2024 — Researchers have developed a new vaccine technology that has been shown in mice to provide protection against a broad range of coronaviruses with potential for future disease outbreaks -- including ...

Expanding a Lymph Node, Boosting a Vaccine

May 6, 2024 — Researchers have found a way to enhance and extend LN expansion, and study how this phenomenon affects both the immune system and efficacy of vaccinations against tumors. While the oversized LNs ...

Microarray Patches Safe and Effective for Vaccinating Children, Trial Suggests

Apr. 29, 2024 — The first study of the use of microarray patches to vaccinate children has shown that the method is safe and induces strong immune responses. The phase 1/2 randomized trial compared results from the ...

Study Finds School Entry Requirements Linked to Increased HPV Vaccination Rates

Apr. 29, 2024 — A new study shows that school entry requirements are linked to an increase in human papillomavirus (HPV) ...

Adults With Congenital Heart Disease Faced Higher Risk of Abnormal Heart Rhythms

Apr. 17, 2024 — Adults with congenital heart defects were more likely to experience an abnormal, irregular heartbeat, finds a new ...

Vaccine Breakthrough Means No More Chasing Strains

Apr. 15, 2024 — Scientists at UC Riverside have demonstrated a new, RNA-based vaccine strategy that is effective against any strain of a virus and can be used safely even by babies or the ...

Researchers Develop More Broadly Protective Coronavirus Vaccine

Apr. 1, 2024 — Researchers have developed a new vaccine that offers broad protection against not only SARS-CoV-2 variants, but also other bat sarbecoviruses. The groundbreaking trivalent vaccine has shown complete ...