Two Cases of Bird Flu confirmed in California Dairy workers
On Oct. 3, 2024, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) reported that the human case previously under…
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Biotechnology | Diagnostics | Infectious Disease | Medicine | Therapeutics | Vaccine | WHO
WHO launches global strategic plan to fight rising dengue and other Aedes-borne arboviral diseases
On Oct. 3, 2024,the World Health Organization (WHO) launched the Global Strategic Preparedness, Readiness and Response Plan (SPRP)…
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Rwanda reports first-ever Marburg virus disease outbreak, with 26 cases confirmed
On Sept. 28, 2024, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that Rwandan health authorities were intensifying outbreak control…
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Brain Scans revealed changes from Long COVID Fatigue
On Sept. 27, 2024, a study that evaluated the structural and functional connectivity correlates of fatigue in post-COVID…
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WHO announced Recommendations for influenza vaccine for the 2025 southern hemisphere influenza season
On Sept. 27, 2024, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced the recommendations for the viral composition of influenza…
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Superbugs could jeopardise food security for over two billion people and increase annual health care costs by U.S. $159 billion annually by 2050, finds most extensive modelling to date
On Sept. 25, 2024, drug-resistant pathogens could jeopardise the food supply of over two billion people and increase…
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COVID-19 Symptoms Reduced Among U.S. Healthcare Personnel Receiving Additional Vaccine Doses
On Sept. 25, 2024, U.S. healthcare workers receiving additional vaccine doses during the Omicron period (December 2021 to…
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White House announced 1 million vaccine doses for Africa’s mpox response
On Sept. 24, 2024, U.S. President Joe Biden announced the donation of 1 million mpox vaccine doses and…
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Study found Pandemic-Era Babies Do Not Have Higher Autism Risk
On Sept. 23, 2024, researchers from Columbia University reported that a study of Children born during the first…
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Biotechnology | FDA | Influenza | Vaccine
FDA Approved Nasal Spray Influenza Vaccine for at home use
On Sept. 20, 2024, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved FluMist for self- or caregiver-administration. FluMist is…
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Oxitec Launched Sparks™, a Commercial Platform to Scale Dengue-Blocking Wolbachia Solution, Aiming to Protect One Billion People by 2040
On Sept. 19, 2024, Oxitec announced it had launched Sparks™, a new commercial platform to accelerate the global…
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EMA recommended extending indication of mpox vaccine to adolescents
On Sept. 19, 2024, the European Medical Agency (EMA) announced it had recommended extending the indication of the…
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new data showed Over half of U.S. kids infected with RSV in infancy
On Sept. 19, 2024, a U.S. population-based birth cohort study was released that showed that 53.4% of babies…
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epicenter of COVID-19 pandemic Genetically traced to market wildlife and viruses
On Sept. 19, 2024, an international team of researchers announced a study that genetically traced the epicenter of…
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Novavax 2024-2025 COVID-19 Vaccine Available at Major U.S. Pharmacies
On Sep. 13. 2024, Novavax announced that doses of the Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine, Adjuvanted (2024-2025 Formula) (NVX-CoV2705) to…
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Japan’s MHLW Approved CSL and Arcturus Therapeutics’ Updated Self-amplifying mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine for Protection against JN.1 Strain, to be Distributed in Japan by Meiji Seika Pharma
On Sept. 13, 2024, CSL Seqirus and sa-mRNA pioneer Arcturus Therapeutics announced that Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor…
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Biotechnology | Diagnostics | Infectious Disease | Polio | Vaccine | WHO
Poliovirus detected in wastewater in Finland
On Sept. 12, 2024, the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) reported that Poliovirus had been found…
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Scientists Sequenced Genome of Greenland Shark, world’s longest-living vertebrate
On Sept. 11, 2024, an international team of scientists led by the Leibniz Institute on Aging announced they…
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Agriculture | Biotechnology | Diagnostics | Disease | Influenza | Non-Profit Research | Vaccine | Veterinary
Avian flu found in wastewater of 10 Texas cities through virome sequencing
On Sep. 11, 2024, researchers at UTHealth Houston and Baylor College of Medicine reported that Avian influenza A(H5N1)…
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Covid-19 pandemic changed scientific publishing
On Sep. 9, 2024, Santo Fortunato, a professor at Luddy School of Informatics, reported that an international research…
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Agriculture | CDC | Influenza | Therapeutics | Vaccine
CDC Confirmed Human H5 Bird Flu Case in Missouri
On Sep. 6, 2024, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed a human case of avian…
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RSV vaccine in older people reduced risk of hospitalization
On Sep. 4, 2024, researcher led by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and Vanderbilt University…
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Avian Influenza A(H5N1) outbreak reported in Cambodia
On Sep. 2, 2024, the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed that a laboratory-confirmed case of human infection with…
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Novavax Formula COVID-19 Vaccine Authorized and Recommended for Use in the U.S.
On Aug. 30, 2024, Novavax announced the Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine, Adjuvanted (2024-2025 Formula) (NVX-CoV2705) had received Emergency Use…
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Biotechnology | Polio | Vaccine | WHO
UN to vaccinate Gaza’s children against polio during pauses in fighting
On Aug. 30, 2024, the United Nations (UN) announced that polio vaccination will begin for some 640,000 children…
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Emergent BioSolutions’ ACAM2000® Received U.S. FDA Approval for Mpox Indication
On Aug. 29, 2024, Emergent BioSolutions announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had approved the supplemental Biologics…
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Vaccine Misinformation caused U.S. Covid-19 Vaccination rate to Drop
On Aug. 28, 2024, survey data from the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) found that the number of…
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New Hampshire reported fatality from Eastern Equine Encephalitis Virus
On Aug. 27, 2024, the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) identified an adult who…
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Biotechnology | Disease | Therapeutics | Vaccine | WHO
Global strategic preparedness and response plan launched by WHO to contain mpox outbreak
On Aug. 26, 2024, the World Health Organization (WHO) launched a global Strategic Preparedness and Response Plan to…
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Biotechnology | CDC | Influenza | Vaccine
The CDC reported Two more variant flu cases from swine exposure in Ohio and Pennsylvania
On Aug. 23, 2024, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that two human infections…
