Meningitis B Vaccine to Be Used for Gonorrhea in England
In August 2025, England will become the first country to offer a vaccine for gonorrhea after cases exceed 85,000 in 2023—the highest gonorrhea levels since recordkeeping began in 1918. The program, offered through the United Kingdom’s National Health Service (NHS), will repurpose the meningitis B vaccine, routinely given to infants, in an attempt to reduce […]
Oxford Begins COVID-19 Vaccine Trials to Meet September Deadline
On Mar. 17, 2020, European Commission (EC) president Ursula von der Leyen said she was hopeful a vaccine for COVID-19 could be available this September. Her view was based on conversations she had had with managers of German biotechnology firm CureVac AG which has developed an experimental messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine that it plans to […]