Japan vaccine policy expected to prioritize medical workers and older adults
The government is expected to prioritize medical workers and older adults for vaccination against COVID-19, as work to develop vaccines for the disease caused by the novel coronavirus shifts into full gear. The government will begin as early as this week to draw up a ...
Third of parents in Japan delayed vaccinating kids amid coronavirus fears
A survey showed 33 percent of parents said they had delayed having their children vaccinated, with some citing fears of COVID-19 infections.
COVID-19 vaccine trials are unnecessary, uninformative and unethical
Deliberately infecting human volunteers with the coronavirus could be far more costly than the pandemic.
The more COVID-19 vaccines, the merrier
With companies and universities around the world working flat out, it's likely we'll end up with a few coronavirus vaccines, not just one.
Don’t only bet on fast vaccines, root for COVID-19 treatments
Everything would have to go right to get a vaccine this year, but several types of treatments may be able to help patients in a matter of months.
Health official says there have been no "major adverse reactions" reported among the 2,575 volunteers participating in the phase-two tests.
Global coronavirus vaccine race heats up, but not without controversy
Global tensions simmered over the race for a coronavirus vaccine Thursday, as the United States and China traded jabs, and France slammed pharmaceuticals giant Sanofi for suggesting the U.S. would get any eventual vaccine first. Scientists are working at breakneck speed to develop a vaccine ...
Japan hopefully has time to build virus defenses before Olympics, professor says
Vaccines against a coronavirus that has killed 170 people in China probably won't be ready by the start of the Tokyo Summer Olympics, a professor who looked at health risks ahead of the games said, adding that he hoped that there was enough time ...
Scientists hail promise of first effective Ebola treatments in Congo trial
Scientists are a step closer to finding the first effective treatments for the deadly Ebola hemorrhagic fever after two potential drugs showed encouraging survival results in a clinical trial in Congo. Two experimental drugs — Regeneron's REGN-EB3 and a monoclonal antibody called mAb114 — were ...
Japan starts work on vaccinating wild boars as swine fever outbreaks continue
The Aichi Prefectural Government started work Sunday to vaccinate wild boars against swine fever, in the first attempt at vaccinating wild animals in the country. Aichi officials placed feed containing a vaccine in the ground at some locations in Aichi Prefecture, including at a forest ...
Citizens are being needlessly left exposed to infectious diseases.
Health workers in Democratic Republic of Congo will begin a vaccination campaign on Monday aimed at containing an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus, a spokeswoman for the health ministry said. Jessica Ilunga said 4,000 doses of vaccine were shipped on Saturday to Mbandaka, which ...
