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Pertussis, or whooping cough, is a year round disease. It’s only April and it’s already projected to exceed the number of cases of infection this year, breaking what since the early nineties has been a fairly steady streak. Washington has already declared an epidemic, and now there are over 100 known cases in Florida. Montana, [...]
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Tuberculosis has been antibiotic resistant almost since antibiotics were invented. Although some vaccines exist, like the flu tuberculosis changes frequently. Developing a more comprehensive vaccine is one effort that is being made to slow tuberculosis infection rates. Although tuberculosis has been a rare disease in the United States, it’s still rampant in other countries, especially [...]
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Note: Streptococcus pneumoniae is a bacteria that is the leading cause of ear infections, bacteremia (a mild blood infection compared to sepsis), and pneumonia, the disease. Pneumonia the disease is a lung infection that can be caused by any sort of pathogen (bacteria, fungus, virus). Merck has won approval for a “pneumonia” vaccine that may [...]
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Early last year, it was said that there were over 250 vaccines on the horizon, and now many of those vaccines are coming to fruition.A Hepatitis C VaccineFirst, there are several teams of scientists here and abroad working to create a vaccine for HCV(Hepatitis C Virus). Some are being tested as vaccines for treatment as [...]
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Shingles are a recurrent form of chicken pox, one that is often far more painful and without the resilience of youth. The virus that causes chicken pox, Varicella-Zoster, typically lays dormant in nerve tissue, and can become triggered again when the body’s immune system is weakened: by stress, by disease, or by aging (or all [...]
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