Nominee for CDC Head Questioned by Senate Health Committee
President Trump’s nominee to be director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) underwent questioning at a hearing of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee. on July 15, 2026. Erica Schwartz, MD, JD, MPH was repeatedly asked questions regarding her views on vaccines, how they contrast with those of […]
CDC Just Awarded Pfizer $1.2 Billion for COVID-19 Shots
U.S. federal procurement records published in June 2026 show that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) awarded Pfizer more than $1.24 billion in contracts for adult and pediatric mRNA COVID-19 shots for fiscal years 2026 and 2027. The contracts, which were published on SAM.gov and contained more money allocated for pediatric COVID […]
Mussel Protein Used to Develop New Vaccine Technology
Scientists in South Korea have developed a new adhesive adjuvant protein-based nanoparticle vaccine technology that they believe may provide longer-lasting immunity with a single injection. According to the researchers in a study published in the journal Biomaterials in 2026, the new approach used bioengineering, gene synthesis and cloning to create a new vaccine technology using […]
“Vaccines” for Honeybees and Shrimp?
Researchers are investigating whether feeding inactivated bacteria to invertebrates such as honeybees and shrimp can act as “vaccines” by causing epigenetic changes that prevent disease, even though invertebrates lack the immune system typically targeted by traditional vaccines.1 The first vaccine for honeybees has received conditional approval from the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 2023 and […]
Scientists Creating mRNA Biologics with Added Aluminum Adjuvant
Scientists at Boston Children’s Hospital in Massachusetts have developed an experimental mRNA biologic technology that they say produced longer-lasting immune responses in animal studies without the use of additional booster shots. The 2026 study was published in Nature Immunology.1 The research looked at a challenge in mRNA technology on how to make protection last longer […]
Ebola Bundibugyo Vaccines in Development Four Months Before Outbreak
An Ebola outbreak in the Ituri province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) was confirmed by the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) on May 15, 2026. Through laboratory analysis, health officials confirmed that the outbreak is caused by the Bundibugyo ebola strain, for which there is no vaccine currently […]