Hacker News with Generative AI: Vaccines

How effective and safe are measles vaccines? (ourworldindata.org)
Data from large meta-analyses show that measles vaccination is highly effective and safe, reducing the chances of getting measles by 95%.

Vaccines, Measles, Public Health, Data Analysis, Science

5 points by salonium_ 3 days ago | 1 comments

'Low-sugar' vaccine can provide broad immunity against coronavirus variants (medicalxpress.com)
Sugar coatings aren't only for candies; they also help viruses, like the ones that cause COVID-19, hide from their hosts' immune system. Now, researchers have developed a universal vaccine that targets coronaviruses and the sugars that they use as cover.

Vaccines, Coronavirus, Immunology, Medical Research, Biotechnology

9 points by PaulHoule 12 days ago | 4 comments

Shingles vaccine found to cut dementia risk by 20% (newatlas.com)
Taking advantage of a unique public health policy in the UK, a new study has found that receiving the shingles vaccine reduces dementia risk by 20%.

Health, Medicine, Public Health, Vaccines, Dementia

8 points by dreadsword 14 days ago | 3 comments

"Not Just Measles": Whooping Cough Cases Are Soaring as Vaccine Rates Decline (propublica.org)
While much of the country is focused on the spiraling measles outbreak concentrated in the small, dusty towns of West Texas, cases of pertussis have skyrocketed by more than 1,500% nationwide since hitting a recent low in 2021 amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Public Health, Measles, Pertussis, Vaccines

15 points by hn_acker 15 days ago | 0 comments

Study finds strongest evidence yet that shingles vaccine helps cut dementia risk (theguardian.com)
Researchers who tracked cases of dementia in Welsh adults have uncovered the strongest evidence yet that the shingles vaccination reduces the risk of developing the devastating brain disease.

Medical Research, Health, Vaccines, Dementia

5 points by namanyayg 16 days ago | 0 comments

154M lives and counting: 5 charts reveal the power of vaccines (nature.com)
Vaccines have made several deadly diseases a thing of the past.

Public Health, Science, Vaccines, Data Visualization

6 points by gnabgib 18 days ago | 0 comments

Second child died from measles-related causes in Texas (apnews.com)
A second unvaccinated school-aged child in West Texas died from a measles-related illness, a hospital spokesman confirmed Sunday, as the outbreak continues to swell.

Measles, Texas, Public Health, Children, Vaccines

9 points by geox 20 days ago | 1 comments

Study finds strongest evidence yet that shingles vaccine helps cut dementia risk (theguardian.com)
Researchers who tracked cases of dementia in Welsh adults have uncovered the strongest evidence yet that the shingles vaccination reduces the risk of developing the devastating brain disease.

Health, Science, Vaccines, Dementia

5 points by amichail 22 days ago | 0 comments

Shingles vaccine linked to reduction in dementia diagnoses, study finds (abc.net.au)
Scientists may have produced the strongest evidence yet that the shingles vaccine is linked to reduced dementia risk.

Health, Science, Vaccines, Dementia

11 points by stubish 23 days ago | 0 comments

Study finds strongest evidence yet that shingles vaccine helps cut dementia risk (theguardian.com)
Researchers who tracked cases of dementia in Welsh adults have uncovered the strongest evidence yet that the shingles vaccination reduces the risk of developing the devastating brain disease.

Health, Science, Vaccines, Dementia

7 points by pseudolus 23 days ago | 2 comments

Study finds strongest evidence yet that shingles vaccine helps cut dementia risk (theguardian.com)
Researchers who tracked cases of dementia in Welsh adults have uncovered the strongest evidence yet that the shingles vaccination reduces the risk of developing the devastating brain disease.

Health, Science, Vaccines, Dementia

4 points by zeristor 24 days ago | 0 comments

Cantor Analysts Blast RFK Jr., Warn of 'Dangerous Territory' (bloomberg.com)
Cantor Fitzgerald biotech analysts slammed the leadership of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., calling on the Trump administration to “re-evaluate” his role after a top vaccine official stepped down.

Politics, Health, Vaccines

15 points by petethomas 26 days ago | 2 comments

$160 book by Springer about Advanced Nanovaccines Contains AI generated text (mastodon.social)

AI, Science, Publishing, Vaccines

19 points by croes 33 days ago | 4 comments

Why I Got the Measles Vaccine at Age 63 (nytimes.com)
It’s full-on spring here in Middle Tennessee, and the world is suddenly blooming with infants.

Health, Vaccines, Personal Experiences

6 points by geox 33 days ago | 1 comments

Do viruses trigger Alzheimer's? (economist.com)
In the summer of 2024 several groups of scientists published a curious finding: people vaccinated against shingles were less likely to develop dementia than their unvaccinated peers.

Health, Science, Alzheimer's Disease, Vaccines

211 points by helsinkiandrew 34 days ago | 163 comments

Mom of child dead from measles: "Don't do the shots," my other 4 kids were fine (arstechnica.com)
The parents of an unvaccinated 6-year-old girl who died of measles in Texas last month sat down for an interview with Children's Health Defense (CHD), the rabid anti-vaccine organization founded and run until recently by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is now US health secretary under the Trump administration.

Measles, Vaccines, Public Health, Anti-vaccine Movement, Children's Health

21 points by duxup 37 days ago | 13 comments

mRNA vaccines are in RFK Jr's crosshairs; funding in question (arstechnica.com)
Federal support for mRNA vaccine research appears in jeopardy after KFF Health News reported Sunday that officials at the National Institutes of Health have directed scientists to remove all references to the lifesaving technology from their grant applications.

Health, Science, Politics, Vaccines, Funding

21 points by magicalist 39 days ago | 1 comments

Covid-flu vaccine could provide broader immunity and lasting protection (medicalxpress.com)
Cornell researchers have developed a new vaccine platform that could provide more robust, longer-lasting protection from both COVID-19 and influenza, and broader immunity to different flu strains.

Medicine, Vaccines, Flu, COVID-19

6 points by PaulHoule 42 days ago | 1 comments

CDC to study vaccines and autism despite research showing no connection (theguardian.com)
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is planning a large study into potential connections between vaccines and autism, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, despite extensive scientific research that has disproved or failed to find evidence of such links.

Vaccines, Autism, Health, Science, Public Health

50 points by rntn 50 days ago | 69 comments

The Texas Measles Outbreak Is Even Scarier Than It Looks (nytimes.com)
The news that an outbreak in Texas has caused the nation’s first confirmed measles death in a decade — an unvaccinated child — is as unsurprising as it is tragic.

Public Health, Measles, Texas, Vaccines

18 points by mitchbob 57 days ago | 10 comments

FDA cancels meeting to select flu strains for next season's shots (nbcnews.com)
A Food and Drug Administration vaccine advisory committee meeting scheduled for March to select the strains to be included in next season’s flu shot has been canceled, a panel member said Wednesday.

Health, Vaccines, Flu, FDA

21 points by taylodl 58 days ago | 1 comments

Anti-vaccine movement falsely blames measles shots for Texas outbreak (nbcnews.com)
As a measles outbreak sweeps through Texas, officially sickening 124 people, mostly unvaccinated children, and hospitalizing 18, anti-vaccine groups are pushing a familiar and false theory: The highly contagious virus is being caused by the vaccine itself.

Public Health, Vaccines, Texas, Misinformation, Measles

15 points by tailefer 58 days ago | 1 comments

Next generation oral Covid-19 vaccine project halted (aol.com)
FIRST ON FOX: Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has paused a multimillion-dollar contract from the Biden administration to create a new COVID-19 vaccine, Fox News Digital has learned.

Covid-19, Vaccines, Government, Health

15 points by clumsysmurf 58 days ago | 0 comments

First measles death is reported in the West Texas outbreak (apnews.com)
A child who was not vaccinated has died from measles in West Texas, the first death in an outbreak that began late last month and the first from measles in the U.S. since 2015.

Health, Measles, Texas, Public Health, Vaccines

19 points by impish9208 59 days ago | 7 comments

Designing Self-Destructing Bacteria to Make Effective Tuberculosis Vaccines (weill.cornell.edu)
Working toward more effective tuberculosis (TB) vaccines, researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine have developed two strains of mycobacteria with "kill switches" that can be triggered to stop the bacteria after they activate an immune response.

Tuberculosis, Vaccines, Medicine, Biotechnology

4 points by justinc8687 59 days ago | 0 comments

CDC terminates flu vaccine promotion campaign (npr.org)
As flu rages, the Trump administration has pulled the plug on a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention flu immunization campaign that targeted high-risk groups, including pregnant women.

Health, Public Health, US Politics, Vaccines, Influenza

87 points by throw0101d 64 days ago | 85 comments

Bill to ban mRNA vaccines passes out of House committee (dailyinterlake.com)
A bill that would ban the use of mRNA vaccines, including for Covid-19, is on its way to the House floor after passing out of committee in a party-line vote Wednesday.

Politics, Health, Vaccines, COVID-19

10 points by belter 68 days ago | 1 comments

Nine unvaccinated people hospitalized as Texas measles outbreak doubles (arstechnica.com)
An outbreak of measles in one of Texas' least vaccinated counties continues to rapidly expand, with officials reporting 24 cases Tuesday, up from just nine confirmed on Friday.

Public Health, Texas, Measles, Vaccines, Disease Outbreaks

12 points by rbanffy 72 days ago | 6 comments

Measles outbreak erupts in one of Texas' least-vaccinated counties (arstechnica.com)
Health officials in Texas are battling a growing measles outbreak in an area that has some of the state's lowest vaccination rates and highest non-medical exemptions.

Health, Texas, Measles, Vaccines, Public Health

9 points by rbanffy 75 days ago | 0 comments

Dead babies, critically ill kids: Pediatricians make moving plea for vaccines (arstechnica.com)
As federal lawmakers prepare to decide whether anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. should be the next secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, pediatricians from around the country are making emotional pleas to protect and support lifesaving immunizations.

Public Health, Vaccines, Politics, Children's Health

17 points by BerislavLopac 88 days ago | 3 comments