vaccine

No need to keep the mop handy. At least yet.

I've been in science communication for over 8 years. If there's only one thing I learned, it's this: People don't respond to facts.

In an effort to quell the spread of health misinformation, social media company Pinterest is thwarting the capacity to make vaccine-related searches on its platform.

In 2011, the global public health community declared the eradication of rinderpest, a severe viral disease of cattle.

We may be one step closer to saving thousands of newborns from a potentially nasty illness and death.

Recently I gave a brief update on the progress of VCL-HB01, an experimental therapeutic vaccine for genital herpes, which

We‘ve written extensively about the move by some to avoid routine vaccinations of children on the totally unproven grounds that some vaccines contain mercury or might cause autism.

A company in Boston, MA, wants to change the way that vaccines are administered, and Bill and Melinda Gates are lending them a hand to make it a reality. 

Make room, Genocea and Rational Vaccines. There may be a new Herpes kid on the block.

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