The Latest Breaking News from Vaccine

Here's a roundup of top developments in the biotech space over the last 24 hours:

Health officials declare national incident and are investigating in London

Moderna, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRNA) rose to prominence with its messenger RNA-based COVID-19 vaccine.

Sanofi SA (NASDAQ:SNY) and GSK plc (NYSE:GSK) have announced positive data from their vaccine trial of adjuvanted bivalent D614 and Beta (B.1.351) vaccine candidate.  "Sanofi-GSK's vaccine is the first candidate to demonstrate efficacy in a placebo-controlled trial in an environment of high Omicron variant circulation," Sanofi said in a statement. The bivalent vaccine targets the…

Recent reports of poliovirus detected in samples from a sewage treatment works in London have rightly generated significant concern among public health agencies and medical staff. The poliovirus detected is what is called vaccine-derived poliovirus – this is not “wild poliovirus”.

Experts have been stressing the importance of getting the booster vaccine as cases continue to rise.

Polio is an infectious disease caused by a virus that can spread from person to person and cause paralysis

It is the first time since 1984 that the virus has been found to be spreading in the community in the UK.

Covid vaccines prevented nearly 20 million deaths in the first year after they were introduced, according to the first large modelling study on the topic released Friday. The study, published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, is based on data from 185 countries and territories collected from December 8, 2020 to…