Category: Infectious diseases
Now is the time to get both your Covid booster and the flu vaccine, Elizabeth Tracey reports
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Fall is here, and with it more indoor activities and more viruses circulating, including Covid and the flu. Anna Durbin, an infectious disease expert at Johns Hopkins, says everyone who’s eligible should be vaccinated against both viral illnesses. Durbin: We …
Why don’t currently developed Covid vaccines cover all the variants? Elizabeth Tracey reports
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Today’s Covid vaccines are based on eliciting antibodies, proteins that circulate in the blood and bind to the virus. Johns Hopkins infectious disease expert Anna Durbin says trying to find the right antibody to cover all of the Covid variants …
Will there be a vaccine against all the Covid variants anytime soon? Elizabeth Tracey reports
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Mid-pandemic, studies suggested that a single vaccine known as a pan vaccine would soon be developed that would cover all the variants of Covid-19. Clearly that hasn’t happened yet, and Anna Durbin, an infectious disease expert at Johns Hopkins, says …
When should you get the new bivalent Covid vaccine? Elizabeth Tracey reports
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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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The new bivalent Covid vaccines should help with a fall/winter surge, Elizabeth Tracey reports
As malaria spreads along with expanding mosquito territory, a new vaccine may help, Elizabeth Tracey reports
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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. …