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Ebola Vaccine
The Ebola vaccine rVSV ZEBOV, marketed as Ervebo, was developed by the Public Health Agency of Canad...
Dengue Vaccine
Dengvaxia, the first dengue vaccine, was developed by Sanofi Pasteur and licensed in Mexico in Decem...
Hookworm Vaccine
The hookworm vaccine targets Necator americanus, a parasitic worm that infects hundreds of millions ...
Tuberculosis New Vaccine
New tuberculosis vaccines are urgently needed as BCG provides variable protection. M72 AS01E, develo...
Group B Strep Vaccine
Group B Streptococcus GBS vaccine targets the leading cause of sepsis and meningitis in newborns. GB...
Zika Vaccine
Zika vaccine development accelerated during the 2015 to 2016 Zika epidemic in the Americas. Zika vir...
Nipah Virus Vaccine
Nipah virus vaccine development is motivated by case fatality rates estimated at 40 to 75 percent an...
Lassa Fever Vaccine
Lassa fever vaccine development targets a viral hemorrhagic fever endemic in West Africa. Lassa viru...
MERS Vaccine
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome MERS vaccine development began after MERS was identified in Saudi A...
Andrew Wakefield Film
Andrew Wakefield directed Vaxxed From Cover Up to Catastrophe, a film claiming the CDC covered up da...
Tetanus Boy Oregon
In 2017, a 6 year old unvaccinated boy in Oregon contracted tetanus from a cut on his forehead. He s...
Disneyland Measles
A measles outbreak linked to Disneyland in December 2014 sickened more than 100 people in the US, wi...
Samoa Measles Crisis
A devastating measles outbreak in Samoa in 2019 killed 83 people, mostly children under 5, out of ap...
Vaccine Cold Chain Nigeria
Maintaining vaccine cold chain in northern Nigeria is particularly challenging due to high temperatu...
Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine
Typhoid conjugate vaccines represent a major advance over older typhoid vaccines. Typbar TCV, develo...
Dengue Vaccine Philippines
The Dengvaxia controversy in the Philippines was one of the most damaging vaccine safety scares of t...
Vaccine AEFI India
India has operated an Adverse Event Following Immunization AEFI surveillance system for decades. The...
Vaccine Immune Amnesia
Measles causes immune amnesia, erasing existing immune memory. A 2019 Science study by Michael Mina ...
Vaccine Microneedle Patch
Microneedle patches are being developed for needle free vaccine delivery. The patches contain hundre...
Vaccine Coronaviral Structure
The determination of the prefusion stabilized coronavirus spike protein structure by Jason McLellan,...
Vaccine CEPI
The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations CEPI was founded in 2017 in Davos, Switzerland, ...
Vaccine SARS Cov 2 Origin
The origin of SARS-CoV-2 remains debated. Two main hypotheses are natural zoonotic spillover from a ...