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Flu vaccine for children linked to pneumonia risk for their relatives

Giving children the nasal flu vaccine is linked to more pneumonia-causing bacteria in their noses, which they may pass on, but immunisation is still recommended

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The Deadly Rise of Anti-science review: The personal cost of research

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Peter Hotez, founding dean and chief of the Baylor College of Medicine National School of Tropical Medicine, speaks during a House Science, Space and Technology Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, March 5, 2020. The Trump administration won't be able to meet its promised timeline of having a million coronavirus tests available by the end of the week, senators said after a briefing from health officials. Photographer: Sarah Silbiger/Bloomberg via Getty Images

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Why is it so difficult to make an effective vaccine against dengue?

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People with dengue in hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh, in July
A Moderna research associate pictured in a laboratory at the company's Cambridge, Massachusetts, headquarters

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Personalised melanoma vaccines prolong survival in largest trial yet

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A pregnant person receives the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine against covid-19 in Schwenksville, Pennsylvania in February 2021

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Covid-19 vaccines in pregnancy not linked to miscarriage or stillbirth

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People queue at a monkeypox vaccination site in Encino, LA in California, in July

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Vaccinating less than half of high-risk men may stop monkeypox spread

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Bronchiolitis is most commonly caused by the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)

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RSV vaccine that may protect against bronchiolitis has promise in mice

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A person receives a covid-19 vaccine in Glasgow, Scotland, in July 2021

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Covid-19 vaccines may ward off long covid even if given post-infection

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Epstein-Barr virus causes glandular fever and is increasingly being linked to multiple sclerosis

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Vaccine may protect against the virus behind multiple sclerosis

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Blacklegged tick (Ixodes pacificus) on a leaf, carrier of the Lyme disease, 2005.

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mRNA vaccine against tick bites could help prevent Lyme disease

An mRNA vaccine that causes a red, itchy skin rash in response to bites by ticks may allow them to be removed before they transmit Lyme disease-causing bacteria

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Skin patch coated in covid-19 vaccine may work better than injections

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A vaccination clinic at an elementary school in Louisville, Kentucky, in April.

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Prioritising covid vaccines for people of colour may have saved lives

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Sarah Gilbert and Catherine Green stand outside the University of Oxford

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Interview: The women behind the Oxford/AstraZeneca covid-19 vaccine

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A pharmacist draws up a dose of a covid-19 vaccine in Toronto, Canada.

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Covid-19 boosters work well but we don't need them yet

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