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Tonix Pharmaceuticals develops monkeypox vaccine for future by looking at past
The Frederick News-Post, Md. via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAug. 19—Tonix Pharmaceuticals, a company that has a research lab in Frederick, is developing a vaccine to prepare for a future where the monkeypox virus is endemic outside of Africa. To do that ...
How long it took to develop 13 vaccines in history
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 11 months agoA pharmacist prepares the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.Jessica Hill/AP Photo Scientists raced to develop COVID-19 vaccines at record speed. Vaccines often...
Human ‘challenge trials’ entail risk but they could be our best protection against the next pandemic
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 4 weeks agoFifty years ago this month, as the seasonal smallpox epidemic raged to a peak in India, nobody knew...
'We could eradicate malaria by 2040' says expert after revolutionary vaccine is approved by WHO
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 9 months agoThe World Health Organization has approved a new vaccine that scientists argue will be a game-changer in the fight against malaria, which kills half a million people in Africa every year. Trials ...
Smallpox caused devastation among Northwest tribes including Eastern Washington Natives
The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash. via Yahoo News· 2 years agoOct. 27—As explorers and fur traders entered the Pacific Northwest by the 1700s, so did smallpox. Today, experts describe the infectious disease's blow to regional tribes as devastating, sometimes ...