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The flu mutates more quickly than other viruses. So each year, scientists change the formula for the flu vaccine to help our immune systems fight off that year’s mutation.
Read it »Did you know that the ingredients that became aspirin were discovered more than 4000 years ago? This is the fascinating story of the development of this common medicine.
Read it »More than 300 million people around the world suffer from asthma. You probably know someone who does. You may have even heard them say they have “asthmas attacks.” What happens during an asthma attack?
Read it »Science and a breakthrough vaccine conquered a virus that had sickened humans for thousands of years. It killed billions of people. Now smallpox is no longer a threat. In the year 1022, a Buddhist monk used a practice called variolation to immunize people against the virus. Still, it took 700 more years to develop a […]
Read it »Even when there isn’t a global pandemic, your immune system is constantly working to keep you healthy. A vaccine pre-arms your system to start protecting against an invader. Here’s a quick explainer on how it works.
Read it »This is a great — although a little advanced — explanation of the development of vaccines and how mRNA vaccines are a new technology that may help us beat all kinds of diseases.
Read it »In early 2020, the COVID-19 novel coronavirus was declared a pandemic. We know when a pandemic starts: it’s when a new virus is found all over the world. But when does one end? Find out in this short video. Because it’s a video from the summer of 2020, we already know how some of the […]
Read it »It’s a term we hear a lot but not everyone knows how to define it and why it’s important to get as many people vaccinated as possible.
Read it »Take a look at how tiny microbes can spread from human to human across the world in this video from 2012.
Read it »mRNA vaccines are a new technology in delivering vaccination but they’ve actually been in development for decades. They work by swapping out a single block of ingredients that maps to the disease they’re targeting. In the future, they may help us develop vaccines within weeks of an outbreak occuring.
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