LONDON (Reuters) – An experimental coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford was safe and produced an immune response in early-stage clinical trials, the data showed on Monday, keeping alive the hope that it might be in use. for the end of the year . FILE PHOTO: …
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Sophia Garabedian had been dealing with a persistent fever and a painful headache when her parents found her numb in her bed one morning last fall. Doctors finally diagnosed Sudbury, Massachusetts, 5, a resident with eastern equine encephalitis, a rare but severe mosquito-borne virus that causes brain inflammation. Garabedian survived …
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OTTAWA / VANCOUVER (Reuters) – For 67 days, little Prince Edward Island was without a single new case of COVID-19. That changed earlier this month when Canada’s smallest province, better known as the fictional house of Anne of Green Gables, announced a group of new cases linked to a foreign …
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Abbott Laboratories and Johnson & Johnson separately reported recoveries from elective procedures earlier than expected in US hospitals in the second quarter, even as the nation struggles with an increasingly severe COVID-19 pandemic. Shares of Abbott ABT, + 2.95% closed at a year-to-date high of $ 99.25, the day after …
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The UK government said on Monday it has secured early access to 90 million doses of vaccines from two potential COVID-19 vaccines developed by a partnership between Germany’s BioNTech and US drug maker Pfizer, as well as one by the group. French Valneva. The business ministry said it had signed …
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