Vaccinating 80% of children aged 15 years or younger in endemic provinces would have a greater impact, reducing cases by 54% and deaths by 71%, but would require 26.6 million doses.
A model suggests that vaccinating children and teens against the flu can help protect the elderly in tropical countries. Influenza kills up to 650,000 people worldwide every year. In part due to ...
In a growing and changing world, we need to find ways of putting food on everyone's table. Pesticides have enabled mass cultivation on an incredible scale, but they can have harmful secondary ...
A vaccination campaign targeting ducks, the farm birds most at risk of getting and spreading bird flu, succeeded in greatly reducing outbreaks of the virus on poultry farms in France ...
Some other countries have been vaccinating younger teenagers for some time - but approaches do differ. In May, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) approved the Pfizer vaccine for 12 to 15-year-olds.
People in the Elmira area can help local stray and feral cats by playing cards on Saturday. REM-TNR is holding a casino-themed fundraiser to support its work trapping, neutering/spaying (and ...
Vaccinating older people probably did avert some deaths in 2021, but the effects were small. And even those small effects on mortality seem to have dissipated during the booster programme.