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Covid has taken us on a wild ride, throwing out new variants with dizzying regularity. Now officials are recommending the new bivalent vaccines to shore up our immunity against currently circulating strains of Covid. Anna Durbin, an infectious disease expert …
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Climate change is helping diseases like malaria and dengue fever, usually associated with warmer climates, spread further around the globe. Such dynamics may render a new vaccine against malaria, even though it only prevents a minority of infections, very important. …
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Trying to understand vaccine hesitancy looms large as many infectious disease experts fear a fall surge of Covid. Anna Durbin, an infectious disease expert at Johns Hopkins, says a look at what happened with the early Covid vaccines is informative. …
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Malaria is a scourge worldwide, spread by mosquitoes. And with climate change, the range of these mosquitoes is expanding, likely bringing malaria to a location near you. Good news then that a vaccine is finally available. Infectious disease expert Anna …
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A blood marker called prostasin seems to link both one’s risk to develop diabetes and the risk of dying from cancer. How might these be linked? William Nelson, director of the Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, offers his interpretation. …
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