Category: vaccine

How AI is stopping the next great flu before it starts

Post author By Randall
Post date February 14, 2020
Categories In Ai, cdc, coronavirus, covid-19, influenze, medicine, Robots, Tech, tomorrow, vaccine

[ad_1] Immune systems across the globe have been working overtime this winter as a devastating flu season has taken hold. More than 180,000 Americans have been hospitalized and 10,000 more have died in recent months, according to the CDC, while the coronavi… [ad_2] Source link

FDA issues its first approval for an Ebola vaccine

Post author By Randall
Post date December 19, 2019
Categories In ebola, ervebo, fda, medicine, merck, Tech, vaccine

[ad_1] A month ago the European Union issued marketing authorization for a vaccine to prevent the Ebola virus in adults, and now the FDA has approved it. While noting that Ebola cases in the US have been very rare, director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research Peter Marks said in a statement […]

The EU just approved a vaccine to prevent Ebola

Post author By Randall
Post date November 11, 2019
Categories In approved, conditional approval, congo, ebola, ervebo, eu, european commission, european union, medicine, merck, outbreak, Politics, Public Health, Tech, tomorrow, vaccine, virus, world health organization

[ad_1] Ervebo was first engineered by the Public Health Agency of Canada and the US Army more than a decade ago. In 2014, following the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, Merck acquired the rights to develop the vaccine. The “conditional marketing authorization” is a type of approval reserved for medicine that addresses unmet medical needs. […]

Facebook debuts new notifications to fight vaccine misinformation

Post author By Randall
Post date September 4, 2019
Categories In anti-vaxxers, Facebook, gear, Instagram, Internet, medicine, pinterest, Politics, Tech, Twitter, vaccine, world health organization

[ad_1] But, the notifications don’t appear to completely prevent people from viewing anti-vaccination content. One screenshot the company shared with CNN shows that, at least on Instagram, individuals have the option to still see what other users have posted using a vaccine-related hashtag. This differs from Pinterest’s recently announced approach, in which the company has […]

Twitter will direct vaccine-related searches to ‘a credible’ source

Post author By Randall
Post date May 14, 2019
Categories In anti-vax, business, Facebook, gear, Internet, medicine, misinformation, Mobile, Public Health, search, Security, Tech, Twitter, us department of health, vaccine, vaccines, vaccines.gov

[ad_1] “We’re committed to protecting the health of the public conversation on Twitter — ensuring individuals can find information from authoritative sources is a key part of that mission,” the company said. Twitter will also block auto-suggestions for queries that might lead to anti-vax commentary and information. For now, the new search prompt can be […]