vaccine

Coronavirus FAQ: I didn't get the latest COVID vaccine. Should I? And if so ... when?

1:35pm December 06, 2024

If you haven't rolled up your sleeve for the jab, you're not alone. In fact, you're in the majority. Here's why doctors think the shot is important.

A flu vaccine is displayed at a pharmacy in New York, on Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024. MARY CONLON/AP

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Winston-Salem's A Blessing Connection Center will host a vaccine clinic

1:50pm November 18, 2024

by Santiago Ochoa

A Winston-Salem nonprofit will offer free COVID-19 vaccines to uninsured individuals.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that up to 86% of new COVID-19 cases stem from the latest mutation, JN.1. The most recent COVID vaccines are expected to help lower chances of serious illness or hospitalization from JN.1.

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COVID-19 cases on the rise in the Triad

5:26pm July 31, 2024

by Santiago Ochoa

A summertime rise in COVID-19 cases brought on by increased travel and extended time spent indoors has caught the attention of health care workers in the Piedmont Triad.

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The jump in measles cases in 2023 is 'very concerning' says WHO official

4:39pm April 29, 2024

And the numbers in 2024 aren't looking any better. Why is this highly infectious disease on the rise? And how can it be tamed?

A patient is transferred to a hospital after receiving medical care at an improvised military aid station set up to treat suspected cases of dengue fever in the administrative region of Ceilandia, on the outskirts of Brasilia, on February 6, 2024.

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With a million cases of dengue so far this year, Brazil is in a state of emergency

4:00pm March 04, 2024

by Jill Langlois

Brazil looks to short-term and long-term strategies to fight a disease so painful it's known as "breakbone fever." The outbreak is part of a global wave of dengue triggered in part by climate change.

Janine Kibwana, Ebola survivor and mother of five, sits in her living room in Beni, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Researchers studying the DRC's most recent Ebola outbreak say that a new vaccine can dramatically reduce the risk of dying from the disease.

Ebola vaccine cuts death rates in half — even if it's given after infection

12:43pm February 15, 2024

by Ari Daniel

Ebola is one of the most feared infectious diseases, with more than half of those infected dying. A vaccine has now been shown to cut that mortality rate in half.

It's no surprise there's a global measles outbreak. But the numbers are 'staggering'

11:35am February 08, 2024

by Fran Kritz

That's the adjective used by the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Global Immunization Division. Can the world bring this outbreak under control?

A Kenyan child receives the world's first malaria vaccine, approved nearly two years ago. This week, the World Health Organization approved a second vaccine for the mosquito-borne disease. It's called R21/Matrix-M and is intended for children between 5 and 36 months, who are among the most vulnerable to the disease.

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A 'dream' come true: Now there are 2 vaccines to slash the frightful toll of malaria

4:28pm October 03, 2023

by Ari Daniel

The head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.Tedros, says he used to "dream of the day when we would have a ... vaccine against malaria. Now, we have two."

An electron micrograph of Respiratory Syncytial Virus, also known as RSV, which is the leading cause of hospitalizations among infants in the U.S.

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Pfizer's RSV vaccine to protect babies gets greenlight from FDA

5:39pm August 21, 2023

by Sydney Lupkin

The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first vaccine for expectant mothers to shield their babies from RSV.

Dr. Susana Lloveras, an infectious disease physician at Hospital Muñiz in Buenos Aires, Argentina, says she used to see one or two cases of chikungunya a year. But earlier this year there were two to three new cases a day.

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Chikungunya virus surges in South America. But a new discovery could help outfox it

3:32pm August 18, 2023

by Ari Daniel

South America has seen a quarter million cases this year, as climate change is a boon for the mosquitoes that spread it. A study about how the virus infects cells could help inform future treatments.