By Lee Shearer Eradicating polio from the world is a lofty goal, but University of Georgia virus researcher Ralph Tripp is willing to try – with a little help. Working with scientists from the federal Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, the private company Thermo Fisher Scientific and other researchers at UGA, Tripp is trying […]
Scientists edge closer to edible vaccine
AAP AUSTRALIAN scientists are edging closer towards developing a revolutionary vaccine which can be swallowed in food instead of being injected. Clinical trials led by Nobel Prize winner Dr Barry Marshall have identified certain strains of a stomach bacteria which are safe to use in humans as the basis for edible vaccines. The results mean […]
Vaccine Machine: A Look Inside the Immunization Dilemma
By Jaclyn Gallucci The 1952 polio epidemic was one of the largest and most frightening public health crises in the United States, with outbreaks in all 50 states. Of the nearly 58,000 cases reported that year, 3,145 people died and 21,269 were left paralyzed. Until 1955, when New York City’s Dr. Jonas Salk introduced his […]
Taking steps to care for vaccines' victims
By Natasha Bita AS a baby, Jacob McCarthy swallowed a spoonful of vaccine given by his doctor to protect him from polio. That “live” vaccine, which contained small amounts of weakened polio virus and has since been replaced by a safer version, gave him the painful and paralytic symptoms of the devastating disease it was […]
Roxon considers vaccine compensation
AAP Health Minister Nicola Roxon says the federal government is willing to consider a no-fault compensation scheme for people who are harmed by vaccines that are supposed to protect them. Leading epidemiologists this month called for such a scheme in an article published in the Medical Journal of Australia. They say people should be helped […]
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