It is a new hope in the fight against the Covid-19. Last Friday, a team of Australian researchers announced that they have undertaken to test a large-scale vaccine used for decades against tuberculosis to test whether it can protect health workers from the virus. The test for this vaccine, BCG, will involve a total of … Read more
A team of American scientists proposed, in an article published on March 31, to speed up the normal procedure for validating a candidate vaccine by voluntarily exposing healthy individuals to Covid-19. Quick. As the Covid-19 pandemic progresses all over the world, speed has become the main watchword for doctors and scientists, even if it means … Read more
Brussels, Frankfurt EU Research Commissioner Mariya Gabriel stokes hope that a coronavirus vaccine will be available quickly. Typically, the approval of a new serum takes twelve to 18 months, she told the Handelsblatt. “But we expect a vaccine to be available on the market much faster, possibly in the fall.” It was a race against … Read more
Should we behave as if we were all infected? – (CNN) – Eighteen months may seem like a lot, but in “years” of vaccines it is a blink of an eye. That’s the Trump administration window of time to develop a coronavirus vaccine, and some leaders in the field say it’s too fast and that … Read more
When will there be a coronavirus vaccine? 3:31– (CNN) – Pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson plans to begin human clinical trials of its covid-19 vaccine in September, with the goal of making the first batches available for emergency use authorization early next year, according to the announcement. the company did this Monday. Johnson & Johnson … Read more
The Ministry of Health and Population said that there is no vaccine to prevent infection so far in the world and all that I recommend is personal protection, respiratory protection, and healthy and nutritional practices.. And Dr. Nihal Al-Shaer, Head of the Central Administration for Non-Governmental Medical Institutions in the Ministry of Health, issued a … Read more
<div id = "firstBodyDiv" data-bind-html-content-type = "article" data-bind-html-compile = "article.body" data-first-article-body = " According to a magazine "Science", The vaccine used against Tuberculosis It is a bacterial disease, which may be able to greatly enhance human immunity until it is able to fight the virus that causes disease "Coved 19"Or, the vaccine will prevent infection … Read more
One of the most recurring questions these days, regarding the coronavirus, is whether it will be possible to have a vaccine in a short time. EL TIEMPO consulted Alberto Buitrago, an internist and infectologist at the San José Hospital; Javier Cote, Master in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology and PhD in Immunology, and Arley Gómez, PhD … Read more
50 years ago, scientists tried to cope with Lass’s deadly fever and started developing a vaccine. And only today they began to test it in public. In January 1969, an unknown virus was first isolated from the serum of two nurses who died … An infection called Lassa fever affects almost all organs of the … Read more
In a March 2 preprint, researchers reported injecting Inovio’s vaccine: a DNA molecule that carries instructions for making the spike protein – in mice and guinea pigs (you can find the PDF here). They found that the animals produced both antibodies and T cells against the virus. Study leader Kate Broderick, Inovio’s senior vice president … Read more