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Nova Scotia funding meningitis vaccine for university students after recent deaths
A portrait of Kai Matthews, who died suddenly from meningitis b while attending Acadia University in 2021, in his parents’ home in Hubley, N.S. on Saturday, February 18, 2023. Kai’s father Norrie Matthews maintains there is a “huge” awareness gap about the vaccine to prevent the fatal disease and has led a fundraising campaign to pay for every student at Acadia to get the vaccine. Darren Calabrese/The Globe and Mail
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World’s animal health body backs bird flu vaccination to avoid pandemic
FILE PHOTO: Ducks are seen in a field in Bourriot Bergonce, southwestern France, January 7, 2017, after France ordered a massive culling of ducks in three regions most affected by a severe outbreak of bird flu as it tries to contain the virus which has been spreading quickly over the past month. REUTERS/Regis Duvignau
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Over a million polio vaccines destroyed in Sudan: UN
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U.S. to end COVID-19 vaccination requirements for foreign travellers, federal workers
FILE - A nursing student administers the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination center at UNLV, in Las Vegas, April 26, 2021. The Biden administration will end most of the last remaining federal COVID-19 vaccine requirements next week when the national public health emergency for the coronavirus ends, the White House said Monday, May 1, 2023. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)
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Fewer Canadians believe in value of childhood vaccines, according to new global report
THAT OLD NEEDLE DOESN'T REALLY HURT... MUCH -- Measles vaccination for Toronto school children. Paul Cornier, middle, is more concerned, and Linda Dool watches with serious expression, as Dr. Michael Kapusta gives vaccinations at St. Teresa's Separate School, New Toronto, December 13, 1965. New Toronto school children are being immunized in mass program against the disease. Photo by James Lewcun / The Globe and Mail. Originally published December 14, 1965
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Canada’s pledge to make more vaccines at home is still a work in progress
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks to reporters during a news conference following a visit to the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) Royalmount Human Health Therapeutics Research Centre facility in Montreal, Monday, Aug 31, 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic wasn't even six months old, and not a single vaccine for it had been approved for use anywhere, when Trudeau took to a podium in Montreal to promise that Canada's National Research Council would be able to start churning out millions of doses of COVID-19 vaccine by the end of 2021.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes
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Moderna says flu shot misses early success bar, but expects 2024 revenue
FILE - A sign marks an entrance to a Moderna building in Cambridge, Mass., on Monday, May 18, 2020. Moderna shares slipped Tuesday, April 11, 2023, after the COVID-19 vaccine developer said its potential flu vaccine needs more study in a late-stage clinical trial. (AP Photo/Bill Sikes, File)
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WHO changes COVID-19 vaccine recommendations
FILE - Pfizer, left, and Moderna bivalent COVID-19 vaccines are readied for use at a clinic on Nov., 17, 2022, in Richmond. Va. President Joe Biden’s order that federal employees get vaccinated against COVID-19 was blocked Thursday, March 23, 2023, by a federal appeals court. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)
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Novak Djokovic’s vaccine stance is just another display of mental strength
Cathal Kelly
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Company planning to make COVID-19 vaccines in Canada warns it could go out of business
Scientists examine a step in the vaccine purification process as they design updates to the Novavax's COVID-19 shots in the company's research laboratory on May 24, 2022, in Gaithersburg, Md. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Angie Wang
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Novavax shares plunge after COVID-19 vaccine maker raises doubts about future
FILE PHOTO: A vial and sryinge are seen in front of a displayed Novavax logo in this illustration taken January 11, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration
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Vaccine for urinary tract infection awaiting Health Canada approval
Signage explaining that Ontario pharmacists are able to provide prescriptions for minor health conditions is photographed at a Shoppers Drug Mart pharmacy in Etobicoke, Ont., on Wednesday, January 11, 2023. Ontario pharmacists' new ability to assess and write prescriptions for conditions such as pink eye and uncomplicated urinary tract infections has led some doctors to express concern. THE CANADIAN PRESS/ Tijana Martin
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Nova Scotia launches vaccine campaign after three students die of meningococcal B
A portrait of Kai Matthews, who died suddenly from meningitis b while attending Acadia University in 2021, in his parents’ home in Hubley, N.S. on Saturday, February 18, 2023. Kai’s father Norrie Matthews maintains there is a “huge” awareness gap about the vaccine to prevent the fatal disease and has led a fundraising campaign to pay for every student at Acadia to get the vaccine. Darren Calabrese/The Globe and Mail
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Routine school-based vaccinations plummeted in Ontario during the pandemic, new report finds
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How misinformation can kill you
Marcus Gee
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Governments seek buyer as Quebec COVID-19 vaccine manufacturer Medicago set to close
Retired nurse Donna Lessard takes part in the Medicago COVID-19 vaccine clinical trials with project co-ordinator Raphael Brochu Friday, Jan. 29, 2021, in Mirabel, Que. The parent company of Medicago Inc. has announced it will shut down the Quebec-based biopharmaceutical company which had developed a vaccine against COVID-19. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz
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EU may pay more for Pfizer COVID-19 shots in return for lower volume
FILE PHOTO: A medical worker prepares a dose of the "Cominarty" Pfizer-Bivalent coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine at a vaccination center in Nice as a new surge in the COVID-19 outbreak starts in France, December 7, 2022. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard
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As demand for COVID-19 shots wanes, underserved communities face multiple barriers again
A person draws out a vaccine in Kingston, Ont., on Sunday January 2, 2022. A study from the C.D. Howe Institute estimates a six-month delay in the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines in Canada would have led to a loss of $156 billion in economic activity in 2021.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Lars Hagberg
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U.S. proposes once-a-year COVID-19 shots for most Americans
FILE - A nurse prepares a syringe of a COVID-19 vaccine at an inoculation station in Jackson, Miss., July 19, 2022. U.S. health officials are proposing a simplified approach to COVID-19 vaccinations, which would allow most adults and children to get a once-a-year shot to protect against the mutating virus. The new system unveiled Monday, Jan. 23, 2023 would make COVID-19 inoculations more like the annual flu shot. Americans would no longer have to keep track of how many shots they’ve received or how many months it’s been since their last booster. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)
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Unvaccinated drivers more likely to be in a car crash, study shows
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Six-month COVID-19 vaccine delay would have cost Canada $156-billion in economic activity, new study estimates
A person draws out a vaccine in Kingston, Ont., on Sunday January 2, 2022. A study from the C.D. Howe Institute estimates a six-month delay in the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines in Canada would have led to a loss of $156 billion in economic activity in 2021.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Lars Hagberg
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China to allow German expats to use German COVID-19 vaccines
A resident receives a Covid-19 vaccine in Hangzhou, in China's eastern Zhejiang province on December 7, 2022. (Photo by CNS / AFP) / China OUT (Photo by -/CNS/AFP via Getty Images)
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Health Canada approves first bivalent booster for kids ages 5 to 11
Doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine are prepared at a one-day pop-up vaccination clinic at the Muslim Neighbour Nexus Mosque, in Mississauga, Ont., on April 29, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christopher Katsarov
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Chinese President Xi Jinping unwilling to accept Western vaccines, U.S. official says
Chinese President Xi Jinping attends a meeting with European Council President Charles Michel (not pictured) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China December 1, 2022. European Union/Handout via REUTERS
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Canada’s health care systems must do more to protect at-risk people from the flu
Samir Sinha
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Doctors urge parents to get routine vaccines for kids following pandemic disruptions
Taika Loo, 16 months, receives a COVID-19 vaccine at a clinic in Ottawa, on Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022. Preventable diseases like measles could spread quickly in Canada like elsewhere in the world due to a drop in routine vaccinations during the pandemic, say pediatricians who are urging parents to ensure their kids are fully immunized.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
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Quebec makes flu shot free for all residents
A flu vaccine is readied at the L.A. Care and Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plans' Community Resource Center, in Lynwood, Calif., Friday, Oct. 28, 2022. The Canadian Paediatric Society is urging families, particularly those with young children, to have all household members immunized against influenza as soon as possible. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Mark J. Terrill
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Researchers test mRNA technology for universal flu vaccine
A flu vaccine is readied at the L.A. Care and Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plans' Community Resource Center, in Lynwood, Calif., Friday, Oct. 28, 2022. The Canadian Paediatric Society is urging families, particularly those with young children, to have all household members immunized against influenza as soon as possible. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Mark J. Terrill
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A viable vaccine for Ebola’s latest strain is shamefully collecting a decade of dust in Canada
Jason Nickerson and Adam Houston
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Pfizer raises full-year sales estimates for its COVID-19 vaccine by $2-billion
FILE PHOTO: The Pfizer logo is seen at the entrance to Pfizer UK headquarters in Tadworth, Britain, December 2, 2020. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls/File Photo
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With made-in-Africa mRNA vaccines, a small Cape Town company wants to stand up to Big Pharma
Dr. Hapiloe Maranyane, a senior scientist at Afrigen Lab, a Biologics & Vaccines, a company in Cape Town that is working on developing Africa's first mRNA vaccines for COVID and other diseases. The company, partly funded by the Canadian government, aims to manufacture mRNA vaccines for Africans who have been largely shut out of the global vaccine market since the pandemic began.
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COVID-19 vaccine pioneers honoured at Gairdner awards ceremony
Dr. Katalin Kariko receives her award the ceremony for the 2022 Canada Gairdner International Award laureates, at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Ont., on Thursday, October 27, 2022. Tijana Martin/ The Globe and Mail
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Saskatchewan rolling out Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 shot for kids under age of four
FILE - A syringe is placed into a vial of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccination at a COVID-19 clinic in Augusta, Maine, on Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2021. On Thursday, Oct. 20, 2022, Pfizer said it will charge $110 to $130 for a dose of its COVID-19 vaccine once the U.S. government stops buying the shots, but the drugmaker says it expects many people will continue receiving doses for free. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)
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China rolls out inhaled COVID-19 vaccine in Shanghai
In this photo taken from video released by Shanghai Media Group, a medical worker hands over aerosolised COVID vaccine developed by Chinese biopharmaceutical company CanSino Biologics Inc. in Shanghai on Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022. The Chinese city of Shanghai started administering the inhalable COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday in what appears to be a world first. (Shanghai Media Group via AP)