WHO Begins Building Smallpox Vaccine Reserve
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Work has started on building a 200 million-dose stockpile of smallpox vaccines but it could take up to three years to complete, World Health Organization (WHO) officials said on Wednesday.
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Diluting smallpox vaccine that is more than 50 years old is almost 100 percent effective, which means the current US stockpile can be expanded if needed, a new study found.
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The first U.S. vaccine against SARS,  which swept parts of Asia and around the world in 2003, is  ready to be tested in human volunteers, government researchers  said on Monday.
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U.S. health officials turned to a  back-up plan for flu season on Wednesday, working to  redistribute doses of vaccine after losing half the anticipated  supply.
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There is progress toward a vaccine to prevent malaria. Researchers have been testing an experimental vaccine in Mozambique. This is what they have found: In a group of one thousand six hundred
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The World Health Organization launched a new global effort on Monday to find a vaccine against malaria, which infects up to 500 million people each year, and the donors to pay for it.
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Description: Congress will hold hearings to determine how the nation wound up facing a shortage of influenza vaccine. About 40 million doses -- roughly half the anticipated US supply -- were impounded in Great
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NEW YORK  - The supply issues with Prevnar, a vaccine that protects kids from bacterial infections, have been resolved and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other groups are now recommending that doctors resume giving the
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When President Bush signed Project BioShield into law in July, he said he was immediately making $5.6 billion available to counter such anticipated threats as smallpox genetically engineered to render current vaccines useless.
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A committee has recommended that scientists be allowed to manipulate a gene in the smallpox virus for the first time to speed up discovery of drugs effective against the virus.
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A real-life distinction between the nations with sufficient smallpox vaccines and those with far too little was a key element of the day's events.
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When President Bush signed Project BioShield into law in July, he said he was immediately making &#36;5.6 billion available to counter such anticipated threats as smallpox genetically engineered to render current vaccines useless.
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The approval of a new vaccine against smallpox was announced Saturday by the Food and Drug Administration, which says the shots could be made quickly if the virtually extinct virus reappears.
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espite pledges two years ago to maintain a stockpile of drugs to protect Americans in the event of a bioterrorism attack, the federal government has so far set aside only 159 vials of anthrax vaccine for the civilian population enough for ...
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The World Health Organization has invited Sanofi-Aventis SA, the world&#39;s biggest maker of flu vaccine, and 15 other companies to join government health officials in planning how to produce
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Sep 10, 2004 (CIDRAP News) - A test of smallpox vaccine made by Aventis Pasteur in the 1950s show it is still effective even when diluted, suggesting that the United States has more than enough vaccine for everyone, according to a report this week in
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The timeline for getting new vaccines to poor countries that need them most is being shortened from decades to less than two years, an alliance of U.N. agencies and government and private groups said Friday.