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HPV Vaccine
The human papillomavirus HPV vaccine prevents cervical cancer and other HPV related cancers. The fir...
Rotavirus Vaccine
Rotavirus is the leading cause of severe diarrhea in infants and young children worldwide. The first...
Shingles Vaccine
The shingles vaccine prevents herpes zoster, a painful rash caused by reactivation of the varicella ...
H1N1 Pandemic 2009
The H1N1 pandemic vaccine was developed in response to the 2009 swine flu pandemic. The virus was fi...
H5N1 Bird Flu
H5N1 avian influenza vaccine development accelerated after the virus re emerged in 2003. Roughly hal...
H7N9 Bird Flu
H7N9 avian influenza emerged in China in March 2013. The virus infected approximately 1,568 people w...
Leishmaniasis Vaccine
Leishmaniasis vaccines have been in development for decades. Leishmaniasis is a parasitic disease tr...
Schistosomiasis Vaccine
Schistosomiasis vaccines target Schistosoma parasites, which infect more than 200 million people. Sc...
Universal Flu Vaccine
Universal influenza vaccine research aims to develop a vaccine that provides protection against all ...
Norovirus Vaccine
Norovirus vaccines target the leading cause of acute gastroenteritis. Norovirus causes approximately...
Cytomegalovirus Vaccine
Cytomegalovirus CMV vaccine development has been ongoing for decades. CMV is the most common congeni...
West Nile Virus Vaccine
West Nile virus WNV vaccine development began after WNV appeared in North America in 1999. WNV sprea...
SARS Vaccine
SARS vaccine development began during the 2003 SARS epidemic. SARS emerged in China in November 2002...
Gonorrhea Vaccine
Gonorrhea vaccine development has been challenging due to the antigenic variability of Neisseria gon...
Staph Aureus Vaccine
Staphylococcus aureus vaccine development has been notoriously difficult. S aureus causes skin infec...
Gavi The Vaccine Alliance
Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, was founded in 2000 to increase access to vaccines in the worlds poorest...
Hib Outbreak Amish
A Haemophilus influenzae type b Hib cluster in Minnesota in 2008 sickened 5 children, several of who...
Nigeria Polio Boycott
In 2003, political and religious leaders in northern Nigeria called for a boycott of polio vaccinati...
CIA Fake Vaccine Program
The CIA ran a fake hepatitis B vaccination program in Abbottabad, Pakistan in 2011 to collect DNA sa...
Vaccine Safety Communication
Effective vaccine safety communication is critical for maintaining public confidence. The WHO identi...
Vaccine Serotype Replacement
Serotype replacement is a phenomenon where vaccinating against some strains of a bacteria allows oth...
Meningitis Belt Africa
The African meningitis belt stretches across sub Saharan Africa from Senegal to Ethiopia. Epidemic m...
Vaccine Confidence Project
The Vaccine Confidence Project at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, founded by Hei...
Vaccine Equity LMIC
Vaccine equity addresses the gap in vaccine access between high income and low and middle income cou...
HPV Vaccine Japan
Japan suspended active recommendation of HPV vaccine in June 2013 after media reports of complex reg...
Vaccine Thimerosal Flu
After thimerosal was removed from childhood vaccines by 2001, it remained in multi dose vials of inf...
Vaccine Smallpox Bioterror
After the 2001 anthrax attacks, the US government implemented a smallpox vaccination program for hea...
Vaccine Thermostable
Thermostable vaccines that do not require cold chain could revolutionize vaccination in developing c...
Vaccine Reverse Vaccinology
Reverse vaccinology uses genomic information to identify vaccine targets without culturing the organ...
Vaccine BARDA
The Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority BARDA was established in 2006 within the ...
Vaccine Decade 2010
The Decade of Vaccines was launched at the World Economic Forum in 2010 by the Bill and Melinda Gate...
Vaccine Hesitancy CDC
The CDC expanded its work on vaccine confidence in the 2010s to address growing vaccine hesitancy. T...
Vaccine AEFI Compensation Global
Relatively few countries have no fault vaccine injury compensation programs. Germany established one...
Vaccine Confidence France
France has historically had some of the lowest vaccine confidence in the world. A 2016 multi country...
Vaccine One Health
One Health vaccination targets both humans and animals. Rabies vaccination of dogs prevents human ra...