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Moderna gets $590M from US government for bird flu vaccine

BioPharma Drive: Drug Pricing

Moderna has been testing an mRNA candidate for influenza viruses like the H5 and H7 strains that are seen as pandemic threats. Others, including GSK and Pfizer, are also at work on similar shots.

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Getting COVID Shot During Pregnancy Helps Protect Newborns, CDC Study Finds

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29, 2023 – When pregnant women get a COVID vaccine, it helps protect their newborns from the virus, a new government study shows. FRIDAY, Sept. These findings indicate that maternal vaccination during pregnancy could help prevent.

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Coronavirus: Missing school is worse than virus for children – Whitty

The Pharma Data

The government has said all pupils, in all year groups, in England will be expected to return to class full-time in September. But this rare interview reveals a lot more about his own views on how the virus is developing. Will children spread the virus to grandparents? Schools have already reopened in Scotland.

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Feds Announce New Measures to Monitor, Prevent Bird Flu

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dairy cows and the federal government on Friday announced a myriad of initiatives aimed at preventing the virus' mutation and spread in humans. FRIDAY, May 10, 2024 -- H5N1 avian flu is now infecting U.S. The illness is typically not fatal in.

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A new viral surveillance system in West Africa is showing the world how to prevent the next pandemic

Broad Institute

Sabeti and her lab had also responded quickly to Ebola in 2014, working with hospitals and government officials in Sierra Leone to sequence viral genomes from patients and make the data available to local communities. Their work would later reveal that the Lassa virus had likely been circulating in West Africa for at least 500 years.

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FDA Study Shows Pasteurization Kills Bird Flu in Milk

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dairy cows, reassuring new government research finds the pasteurization process widely used in the industry effectively kills all bird flu virus in milk.In MONDAY, July 1, 2024 -- As bird flu continues to spread among U.S. a health update posted.

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Coronavirus: 'Widespread virus growth across the country'

The Pharma Data

say the government’s scientific advisers. Cases of the virus and hospital admissions for Covid-19 are thought to be doubling every seven to eight days in the UK. Image copyright. Getty Images. There is widespread growth of the epidemic across the country and the R number has risen to between 1.1 At least 13.5

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