medicine
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CDC Finds No Smallpox in Frozen Vials Suspiciously Labelled ‘Smallpox’
Days after a Pennsylvania lab was locked down because a worker discovered vials labelled “smallpox” in a freezer, the CDC says there’s no reason to fear a viral outbreak. Late Thursday night, federal officials announced that the vials did not contain the deadly and eradicated variola virus. Instead, they held a related but much tamer…
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Experimental Anti-Tick Vaccine Aims to Stop Bites That Could Spread Lyme
In the not-so-distant future, campers and hikers may be able to get a shot that not only protects them from Lyme disease but also from the bloodsucking ticks that spread it — at least if Yale-led research into an anti-tick vaccine continues to show promise. In a new study involving guinea pigs, an experimental mRNA-based…
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60 Countries With the Best COVID-19 Vaccination Rates in the World
The U.S. has slipped in the international COVID-19 vaccine rankings to 55th place, according to data from the Johns Hopkins University vaccine tracker. And while it’s good that other countries have massively scaled up their vaccination efforts in 2021, other nations are leaving the U.S. in the dust.
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Pfizer’s Experimental COVID-19 Pill Found Highly Effective at Preventing Hospitalisation and Death
The dawn of treatments that can effectively prevent severe COVID-19 may truly be here. On Friday, pharmaceutical company Pfizer announced the results of its clinical trial testing out a combination oral antiviral therapy. The study found that the two-drug combo reduced the chances of hospitalisation and death among outpatients at risk of severe illness by…