Webpages tagged with «pandemic»

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Published Jan. 28, 2022 10:31 AM

A new vaccine against tuberculosis may also be used as treatment. The vaccine is safe to give to people with tuberculosis disease and strengthens the immune system's ability to attack the bacteria that cause the disease, a new study shows.

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Published Sep. 3, 2021 8:18 AM

Increasing vaccine scepticism makes it more difficult to achieve herd immunity. We therefore need vaccines that protect each individual even better. Gunnveig Grødeland is now initiating the EU project VAXPRED.

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Published Aug. 30, 2021 10:25 AM

Professor John Torgils Vaage leads a study that will examine the effect of COVID-19 vaccination in immunocompromised and transplant patients. The study has received funding from the vaccine coalition CEPI.