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LOS ANGELES, CA - NOVEMBER 03: Nicole Fahey, of Altadena, six months pregnant, receives a Pfizer vaccination booster shot from RN Veronique (cq) Vida (cq) at Eugene A. Obregon Park on Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2021 in Los Angeles, CA. The County of Los Angeles, including Supervisor Hilda L. Solis, Dr. Barbara Ferrer, Director of Public Health, and Norma Edith Garc?a-Gonz?lez, Director of Parks and Recreation, will host a media event kicking off COVID-19 vaccinations for children ages 5-11 in Los Angeles County. The COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by Pfizer and BioNTech is proposed to be given in two 10-microgram (mcg) doses administered 21 days apart. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

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Covid-19 vaccines during pregnancy protect newborns from infection

A large study of infants shows that getting a covid-19 vaccination while pregnant can significantly reduce your child's infection risk two months after birth

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The young patient watches the nurse put a bandage on her injection site.

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Covid-19 vaccines added to routine immunisation schedule in US

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The respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) usually causes mild, cold-like symptoms, but can be severe in vulnerable people

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The first ever vaccine against RSV could be approved in 2023

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People queue up to receive the Medigen and Moderna vaccines for the Covid-19 coronavirus at Taipei's main train station on April 29, 2022. (Photo by Sam Yeh / AFP) (Photo by SAM YEH/AFP via Getty Images)

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Why we probably won't get new covid-19 vaccines in 2023

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A person receives a smallpox vaccine to protect against mpox in LA, California, in August 2022

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Targeted vaccine campaigns helped the West get on top of monkeypox

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A transmission electron micrograph of Streptococcus pyogenes

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Strep A kills 500,000 people a year, so why isn’t there a vaccine?

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An electron micrograph of an HIV virus particle (red/yellow) budding from the plasma membrane of an infected T cell (blue), which make up part of the immune system

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Vaccine prompts HIV antibodies in 97 per cent of people in small study

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Illustration of Yersinia pestis bacteria

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An mRNA vaccine protects mice against deadly plague bacteria

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Human cells infected with influenza virus

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Promising universal flu vaccine could protect against 20 strains

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E. coli bacteria

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Vaccine to prevent UTIs could be taken as a dissolving tablet

Recurrent UTIs could one day be prevented with a vaccine instead of antibiotics if promising results in mice and rabbits are replicated in clinical trials

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When will a vaccine for RSV be available in the US?

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Vaccines that prolong the immune response may give better protection

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Covid jab rates vary in England in children of different ethnicities

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UK isn't prepared for the next pandemic, says ex-vaccine chief

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