Adult Vaccinations

As the world continues to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, research teams worldwide are working towards making a successful vaccination for the disease. At the University, teams have left behind ongoing research efforts in order to bring their attention to the novel coronavirus instead. William Petri, professor of medicine and infectious disease expert, is leading a team that has moved from 25 years of amoebic dysentery vaccine research to vaccine trials in COVID-infected mice.  Peter Kasson, associate professor of molecular physiology and biomedical engineering, is using knowledge from years of influenza and Zika virus research to evaluate how the virus infects cells and how coronavirus antibodies work. According to Kasson, there are four types of treatment for COVID-19 — vaccines, antiviral drugs, immunotherapies and other drugs that make the body less susceptible to infection. In his current research, Kasson is focusing on how antibodies work to protect against coronavirus. “Vac...

Can America reopen without a major resurgence of Covid-19? We’ve learned a great deal about controlling the virus. In the summer people will spend time outdoors, which can reduce the risk. Yet a second wave could come in the fall as schools open and businesses try to return to normal. Americans will feel more confident—or simply tired—and may take fewer precautions. Getting the threat behind us will require a vaccine cleared for general use. There are ways to accelerate that process, but it is important not to cut corners,...

By Ross Eric Gibson We are living in the Age of Ignorance, lacking sufficient knowledge to confidently emerge from the COVID-19 crisis. At the moment, everything is an experiment, as financial needs, cabin fever, beautiful weather, and even foolhardiness, combine to test the limits of our confinement. PBS News noted that we are experiencing an “Infodemic” of misinformation, disinformation, and hoaxes. What we need most is dependable information from reliable COVID-19 testing, to a vaccine. But will the pro-vaccine coalition that includes anti-maskers greet the eventual vaccine with anti-vaxxers? Santa Cruz was one of the first to test the legal limits of vaccines in the U.S. The 1886 epidemic David King Abeel came to Santa Cruz from Missouri in 1886. He’d made his fortune as editor and publisher of the Kansas City Journal, and fell in love with Santa Cruz. In 1887 he built his Eastlake mansion on the Mission Terrace bluff, overlooking downtown Santa Cruz (site of today’s apartments...

In my last article, I suggested that even though the market was down and it was dry, it was still a good time to consider castrating and implanting your market bull calves and vaccinating all your calves (and breeding animals, too) for at least the Blackleg complex diseases. Since then, we have had a little rain and the market has moved up a little (a lot in some cases). As there are not many ways to improve the value of your calves once they are loaded onto the trailer to be shipped, now is a good time to consider these practices. Recently, Cattle Fax, a national beef cattle research and analysis organization, reported results of their annual membership survey of beef cattle management practices and profitability. Throughout the past five years of the survey, the average weaning weight in the U.S. has not varied much and averaged 568 pounds. This was similar to the average weaning weight reported by their members (565 pounds). However, when they compared the average weanin...

Senior author Dan H. Barouch, MD, PhD, Director of the Center for Virology and Vaccine Research at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Credit: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Companion study suggests COVID-19 infection protects against re-exposure. With nearly 5 million confirmed cases globally and more than 300,000 deaths from COVID-19, much remains unknown about SARS-CoV-2 , the virus that causes the disease. Two critical questions are whether vaccines will prevent infection with COVID-19, and whether individuals who have recovered from COVID-19 are protected against re-exposure. A pair of new studies led by researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) sheds new light on these questions. Both studies were published today in the journal Science . “The global COVID-19 pandemic has made the development of a vaccine a top biomedical priority, but very little is currently known about protective immunity to the SARS-CoV-2 virus,” said senior author Dan H. Barouc...

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ROCK SPRINGS — Several health organizations are working together in an effort to promote the HPV vaccine.  Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County’s Sweetwater Regional Cancer Center, the American Cancer Society, and statewide partners including Wyoming Cancer Resource Services and the Wyoming Department of Health Immunization Unit have teamed up to increase HPV vaccination rates. Through a combination of vaccination, screening, and treatment of pre-cancers, there is the possibility to eliminate vaccine-preventable human papillomavirus (HPV) cancers, according to a Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County press release.  “We are always promoting cancer prevention and awareness,” said Tasha Harris, Sweetwater Regional Cancer Center director. “I think that there are some misconceptions about the HPV vaccine, but the HPV vaccine has been proven to prevent cancer and protect our kids. I am grateful for our partnership with the American Cancer Society and their tireless eff...

ROCK SPRINGS — Through a combination of vaccination, screening, and treatment of pre-cancers, there is the possibility to eliminate vaccine-preventable human papillomavirus (HPV) cancers. Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County’s Sweetwater Regional Cancer Center, the American Cancer Society, and statewide partners; Wyoming Cancer Resource Services, and the Wyoming Department of Health Immunization Unit, have teamed up to increase HPV vaccination rates. HPV vaccination works best when given between the ages 9 and 12. Children and young adults age 13 through 26 who have not been vaccinated, or who haven’t received all their doses, should get the vaccine as soon as possible. An estimated eight out of 10 people will get HPV during their lives. There is no treatment for HPV infection, but vaccination and screening can prevent most HPV-related cancers. Advertisement - Story continues below... “We are always promoting cancer prevention and awareness,” said Tasha Harris, Sweetwater Regio...

Plaquenil (Hydroxychloroquine) and chloroquine are used to prevent or treat malaria caused by mosquito bites. It does not work against certain types of malaria (chloroquine-resistant).  And, Plaquenil (Hydroxychloroquine) is FDA-approved for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, and porphyria cutanea trade. Hydroxychloroquine is a more soluble and less toxic metabolite of chloroquine , which causes fewer side effects and is, therefore, assumed to be safer.  Hydroxychloroquine sulfate is a colorless crystalline solid, soluble in water to at least 20 percent; chemically the drug is 2-[[4-[(7-Chloro-4-quinolyl)amino]pentyl]ethylamino] ethanol sulfate (1:1). Studies  indicate chloroquine was first used as prophylaxis and treatment for malaria. Chloroquine (CQ) is a lysosomotropic antimalarial drug that neutralizes lysosomal acidification , thus blocking autophagosomal degradation. Hydroxychloroqu...

Then there is the fear from rushing to produce the vaccine. Political pressure is being put on researchers in the U.S. and China to come up with the first COVID-19 vaccine. Will such a vaccine be thoroughly tested for efficacy and long-term side effects? KSO Kamloops Symphony extends contract with music director Gilbert Eyeview CHARBONNEAU: Stop the misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccine now Thefts from vehicles MAP: Thefts of bicycles and from motor vehicles — Week of May 18, 2020 May 26, 2020 There is the politics of choice: “Why should I be forced to get a vaccination if I don’t want to?” Well, public health is not a personal choice. In a universal health care system like we have in Canada, we all pay for the careless choices of individuals. The psychology of “fear transfer” is a factor. Once we have exhausted our fears about the actual virus, fear of the vaccine becomes the greater threat. In the U.S., presidential election politics are at play. Pre...

It is a daunting proposition — a coronavirus-tinged world without a foreseeable end. But experts in epidemiology, disaster planning and vaccine development say embracing that reality is crucial to the next phase of America’s pandemic response. The long-term nature of covid-19, they say, should serve as a call to arms for the public, a road map for the trillions of dollars Congress is spending and a fixed navigational point for the nation’s current, chaotic state-by-state patchwork strategy . With so much else uncertain, the persistence of the novel virus is one of the few things we can count on about the future. That doesn’t mean the situation will always be as dire. There are already four endemic coronaviruses that circulate continuously, causing the common cold . And many experts think this virus will become the fifth — its effects growing milder as immunity spreads and our bodies adapt to it over time. For now, though, most people have not been infected and remain suscepti...