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Embattled Alzheimer’s Researcher Is Charged With Fraud

28 June 2024 at 18:05
Hoau-Yan Wang, a professor at City College, published studies supporting simufilam, now in advanced clinical trials.

Β© Ilana Panich-Linsman for The New York Times

Hoau-Yan Wang’s work underpinned research into a diagnostic test for Alzheimer’s disease and simufilam, a drug in advanced clinical trials made by Cassava Sciences in Austin, Texas.

New Covid Shots Recommended for Americans 6 Months and Older This Fall

27 June 2024 at 19:22
As the virus continues to mutate, the C.D.C. urged Americans to roll up their sleeves again for annual vaccinations.

Β© Jenn Ackerman for The New York Times

Across every age group, a vast majority of Americans who were hospitalized for Covid did not receive one of the shots offered last fall, according to data presented at a meeting of the C.D.C.

Federal Officials Revise Recommendations for R.S.V. Vaccine

26 June 2024 at 18:00
Among Americans aged 60 to 74, only those with certain health conditions need to receive the shots, the agency concluded.

Β© Pfizer, via Associated Press

Pfizer’s Abrysvo is one of three R.S.V. vaccines approved by the F.D.A. The other two are GSK’s Arexvy and Moderna’s mRESVIA.

A Bird-Flu Pandemic in People? Here’s What It Might Look Like.

20 June 2024 at 14:39
There is no guarantee that a person-to-person virus would be benign, scientists say, and vaccines and treatments at hand may not be sufficient.

Β© Guadalupe Pardo/Associated Press

Workers in Lima, Peru, collected dead pelicans from a beach in 2022. The H5N1 virus has been rapidly gaining new hosts.

Bird Flu Has Infected a Third U.S. Farmworker

30 May 2024 at 15:45
The worker had respiratory symptoms, unlike the first two. But the risk to the public remains low, federal health officials said.

Β© Aaron Ontiveroz for The New York Times

A dairy farm in Colorado in 2019.

Countries Fail to Agree on Treaty to Prepare the World for the Next Pandemic

24 May 2024 at 13:57
Negotiators plan to ask for more time. Among the sticking points are equitable access to vaccines and financing to set up surveillance systems.

Β© Denis Balibouse/Reuters

Last year’s World Health Assembly in Geneva. Member countries have failed to reach their goal of finalizing a pandemic treaty before this year’s session begins on Monday.

Milk Containing Bird-Flu Virus Can Sicken Mice, Study Finds

24 May 2024 at 10:40
The results bolster evidence that virus-laden raw milk may be unsafe for humans.

Β© Jonel Aleccia/Associated Press

Bottles of raw milk are displayed for sale at a store in Temecula, Calif.

A Second Dairy Worker Has Contracted Bird Flu, C.D.C. Reports

The new case, in a Michigan farmworker, did not suggest that bird flu was widespread in people, health officials said, adding that the risk to the general public remained low.

Β© Jackie Katz Cynthia Goldsmith/CDC, via Associated Press

An electron microscope image of an avian flu virion.
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