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A pregnant woman walking in Hong Kong in March 2020

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Does covid-19 affect pregnancies and do the vaccines reduce any risks?

The coronavirus has been linked to adverse pregnancy outcomes, but vaccines help to keep mothers and babies safe

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Covid-19 booster vaccines should leave out original spike protein

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World’s first RSV vaccine approved in the US for older adults

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Ghana is the first country to approve highly effective malaria vaccine

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A child in Seattle, Washington, receives a chickenpox vaccine in 2019. The US, among other countries, offers a routine chickenpox vaccine to children, unlike countries such as the UK and Denmark

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Should more countries vaccinate children against chickenpox?

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LOS ANGELES, CA - NOVEMBER 03: Nicole Fahey, of Altadena, six months pregnant, receives a Pfizer vaccination booster shot from RN Veronique (cq) Vida (cq) at Eugene A. Obregon Park on Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2021 in Los Angeles, CA. The County of Los Angeles, including Supervisor Hilda L. Solis, Dr. Barbara Ferrer, Director of Public Health, and Norma Edith Garc?a-Gonz?lez, Director of Parks and Recreation, will host a media event kicking off COVID-19 vaccinations for children ages 5-11 in Los Angeles County. The COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by Pfizer and BioNTech is proposed to be given in two 10-microgram (mcg) doses administered 21 days apart. (Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

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Covid-19 vaccines during pregnancy protect newborns from infection

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The young patient watches the nurse put a bandage on her injection site.

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Covid-19 vaccines added to routine immunisation schedule in US

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The respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) usually causes mild, cold-like symptoms, but can be severe in vulnerable people

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The first ever vaccine against RSV could be approved in 2023

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People queue up to receive the Medigen and Moderna vaccines for the Covid-19 coronavirus at Taipei's main train station on April 29, 2022. (Photo by Sam Yeh / AFP) (Photo by SAM YEH/AFP via Getty Images)

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Why we probably won’t get new covid-19 vaccines in 2023

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A person receives a smallpox vaccine to protect against mpox in LA, California, in August 2022

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Targeted vaccine campaigns helped the West get on top of monkeypox

Countries such as the UK and France are now reporting zero daily cases of monkeypox as a result of offering the limited vaccine doses available to the most at-risk people

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Strep A kills 500,000 people a year, so why isn’t there a vaccine?

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Vaccine prompts HIV antibodies in 97 per cent of people in small study

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An mRNA vaccine protects mice against deadly plague bacteria

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Promising universal flu vaccine could protect against 20 strains

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