ACIP Voting On a New Vaccine
Is there any comment on using this vaccine at the same time as other adjuvented vaccines? We have no data to make a recommendation one way or the other. So just to sort of put this in context of other vaccines, while pre-clinical studies were not done using this vaccine simultaneously, our general approach to […]
New Supercharged Shingles Vaccine Has Serious Problems
Story Highlights Shingrix, a new high antigen vaccine designed to prevent shingles (herpes zoster), is produced by GlaxoSmithKline and is being aggressively marketed for adults over age 50. Approved for use in October 2017, the new vaccine is competing with Merck’s shingles vaccine, Zostavax, and there are already reports that Shingrix is associated with significant administrative errors […]
Two Children Die in Gujarat, India Days After Measles-Rubella Vaccination
Dimple Maheshwari, 13 years old, died on the morning of July 24, 2018, five days after receiving the MR (measles, rubella) vaccine at her school in the village of Khirsara (state of Gujarat), India.1 2 According to local police, the teenager was administered the live virus vaccine on July 19 as part of a national child public vaccination campaign. […]
Global Vaccine Market Expected to Reach $50.52 billion by 2023
The value of the vaccine market will reach $50.42 billion by 2023 from $36.45 billion in 2018, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 6.7 percent, according to recently published report by private research firm MarketsandMarkets of India.1 The report provides an overview of the global vaccine market estimating the market size and potential for […]
Vaccines are the Victims of Their Own Success?
One of the most common explanations given by supporters of vaccine mandates for why a growing number of people are having second thoughts about vaccination is that vaccines have been so successful in defeating infectious diseases that people forget how bad things were before vaccines. In a recent BMJ opinion piece, Giovanni Rezza, MD of […]