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Bacteria, Viruses, Coronaviruses, Rhinoviruses
Vaccines, Vaccination
pandemics UK
https://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interactive/2020/apr/29/
antiviral drugs USA
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/11/
vaccination programmes UK
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/apr/27/
vaccine, vaccination FR / USA
https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/dossier/culture-idees/
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/15/
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/25/
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/11/
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/17/
https://www.npr.org/2020/09/04/
https://www.npr.org/2020/07/01/
https://www.npr.org/2020/06/04/
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/27/
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/05/20/
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/05/03/
https://www.npr.org/2019/05/01/
https://www.npr.org/2019/03/08/
https://www.npr.org/2019/03/07/
https://www.npr.org/2019/03/06/
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/02/20/
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/02/13/
mRNA Vaccines USA
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/15/
AstraZeneca buys US vaccine company in $1.1bn deal UK Britain’s biggest drugmaker acquires Seattle-based firm Icosavax, expanding vaccine and immune therapy business
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/dec/12/
https://www.theguardian.com/business/
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/dec/12/
vaccine drives USA
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/25/
Bacille Calmette Guerin BCG BCG vaccine UK
The BCG vaccine protects against tuberculosis, which is also known as TB.
TB is a serious infection that affects the lungs and sometimes other parts of the body, such as the bones, joints and kidneys. It can also cause meningitis. https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/vaccinations/bcg-tuberculosis-tb-vaccine/
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/vaccinations/
https://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2020/apr/30/
DTP vaccine USA
vaccine against Diphtheria, Pertussis, better known as whooping cough, and Tetanus
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/11/
vaccine, vaccination against variola virus USA
https://www.cdc.gov/smallpox/history/history.html
cold storage USA
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/11/17/
vaccinated USA
https://www.npr.org/2019/03/08/
vaccine skepticism USA
https://www.npr.org/2020/07/01/
anti-vaccine USA
https://www.npr.org/2020/07/01/
https://www.npr.org/2019/03/07/
https://www.npr.org/2019/03/06/
anti-science USA
https://www.npr.org/2020/07/01/
coronaviruses UK
https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2020/may/20/
2012 > viruses > coronaviruses Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV)
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) is an illness caused by a virus (more specifically, a coronavirus) called Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV).
Most MERS patients developed severe respiratory illness with symptoms of fever, cough and shortness of breath.
About 3 or 4 out of every 10 patients reported with MERS have died.
All cases are linked to the Arabian Peninsula
Health officials first reported the disease in Saudi Arabia in September 2012.
Through retrospective (backward-looking) investigations, they later identified that the first known cases of MERS occurred in Jordan in April 2012.
So far, all cases of MERS have been linked through travel to, or residence in, countries in and near the Arabian Peninsula.
The largest known outbreak of MERS outside the Arabian Peninsula occurred in the Republic of Korea in 2015.
The outbreak was associated with a traveler returning from the Arabian Peninsula.
People with MERS can spread it to others
MERS-CoV has spread from ill people to others through close contact, such as caring for or living with an infected person.
MERS can affect anyone. MERS patients have ranged in age from younger than 1 to 99 years old. - 20 May 2020 https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/mers/
2003 > viruses > coronaviruses severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV)
Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is a viral respiratory illness caused by a coronavirus called SARS-associated coronavirus (SARS-CoV).
SARS was first reported in Asia in February 2003.
The illness spread to more than two dozen countries in North America, South America, Europe, and Asia before the SARS global outbreak of 2003 was contained.
Since 2004, there have not been any known cases of SARS reported anywhere in the world. - 20 May 2020 https://www.cdc.gov/sars/index.html
viruses > RNA virus > common cold virus
Rhinoviruses are a major cause of the common cold and may contribute to about half of asthma flare-ups.
Researchers have now completed sequencing the genomes of all the known rhinovirus types, setting the stage for the development of medications and vaccines to combat the viruses.
The cold is the most common illness known, bringing the sneezing, scratchy throat and runny nose that we're all familiar with.
People in the United States have an estimated 1 billion colds each year.
More than 200 different viruses are known to cause the symptoms of the common cold.
An estimated 30-35% of all adult colds are caused by rhinoviruses.
In people with asthma, particularly children, rhinovirus infections are also frequently associated with flare-ups.
Scientists had previously identified 99 distinct rhinovirus types.
Recently, however, a number of unknown types were detected in patients with severe flu-like illnesses.
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Rhinoviruses contain all their genetic information on a single strand of RNA (a molecule related to DNA). - last updated April 13, 2009
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/
Colds are caused by viruses and easily spread to other people.
You're infectious until all your symptoms have gone.
This usually takes a week or 2. from coughs and sneezes, which can live on hands and surfaces for 24 hours.
To reduce the risk of spreading a cold:
wash your hands often with warm water and soap use tissues to trap germs when you cough or sneeze bin used tissues as quickly as possible
How to prevent catching a cold
A person with a cold can start spreading it from a few days before their symptoms begin until the symptoms have finished.
The best ways
to avoid catching a cold are: with warm water and soap
not sharing towels or household items (like cups) with someone who has a cold
not touching your eyes or nose in case you have come into contact with the virus – it can infect the body this way
staying fit and healthy
The flu vaccine helps prevent flu but not colds. - 20 May 2020 https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/common-cold/
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/common-cold/
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_cold
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA_virus
varicella zoster virus > shingles > vaccine UK / USA
Shingles, also known as herpes zoster, is an infection of a nerve and the skin around it.
It is caused by the varicella-zoster virus, which also causes chickenpox.
Shingles usually affects a specific area on one side of the body and does not cross over the midline of the body (an imaginary line running from between your eyes down past the belly button).
The main symptom is a painful rash that develops into itchy blisters that contain particles of the virus.
An episode of shingles typically lasts around two to four weeks, although around one in five people go on to develop nerve pain called postherpetic neuralgia in the affected area of skin. http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/shingles/Pages/Introduction.aspx
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/shingles/
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/03/20/
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/07/13/
measles vaccine USA
http://www.npr.org/blogs/goatsandsoda/2015/05/07/
German measles / rubella causes only a mild illness in children, with a rash and sometimes a fever.
But when pregnant women catch rubella, their babies can develop serious birth defects, like heart problems, blindness and learning disabilities.
The virus can also trigger miscarriages early in a pregnancy. USA
http://www.npr.org/blogs/goatsandsoda/2015/04/30/
In the 1964-1965 rubella pandemic, an estimated 50,000 pregnant women in the United States were exposed to rubella in pregnancy, resulting in miscarriages, stillbirths, and 20,000 babies born with congenital rubella syndrome, which caused blindness, deafness, brain and heart damage.
At the height of the pandemic, an estimated 1 out of every 100 babies born in Philadelphia was afflicted.
A vaccine for rubella was introduced in the 1970s, so parents no longer have to live in fear.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/goatsandsoda/2015/04/30/
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/12/
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/02/20/
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/01/30/
http://www.npr.org/blogs/goatsandsoda/2015/04/30/
human papillomavirus HPV
the cause of most cervical cancer UK / USA
https://www.theguardian.com/society/hpv-vaccine
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/jul/19/
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/02/01/
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/02/03/
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/11/07/
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/11/07/
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/19/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/jun/04/
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/04/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2013/jun/02/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/oct/17/
meningitis USA
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/12/12/
immunization USA
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/27/
Corpus of news articles
Health > Microbes >
Bacteria, Viruses, Coronaviruses, Rhinoviruses >
Vaccines, Vaccination
The Real Threat of ‘Contagion’
September 11, 2011 The New York Times By W. IAN LIPKIN
I ADMIT I was wary when I was
approached, late in 2008, about working on a movie with the director Steven
Soderbergh about a flulike pandemic. It seemed that every few years a filmmaker
imagined a world in which a virus transformed humans into flesh-eating zombies,
or scientists discovered and delivered the cure for a lethal infectious disease
in an impossibly short period of time. W. Ian Lipkin is a professor of epidemiology and a professor of neurology and pathology at Columbia University.
The Real Threat of ‘Contagion’,
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