Flu pandemic vaccine

Millions of lives could be saved by a range of new vaccines for a range of diseases, including cancer, experts say. A leading pharmaceutical company has announced that by 2030 there will be vaccines against cancer, cardiovascular, autoimmune and other diseases, the Guardian writes.

Experts have denied a link between the COVID-19 vaccine and the increasing number of heart attacks, which has become a hot topic of debate as people raised their concerns that the heart attack cases seen in the past few months of winter are an outcome of the vaccine shot.

Vaccines to fight cancer will be widely available before 2030, say husband and wife Prof. Ugur Şahin and Prof. Özlem Tureçi, creators of one of the most successful vaccines against COVID-19, writes in the New York Times.

Lessons learned from the pandemic will accelerate cancer treatments based on mRNA technology, they say.

As the World Health Assembly (WHA) is set to convene on May 18, prominent personalities from across the globe urged world powers to pledge a free "COVID-19 vaccine for all" when available.

There is a possibility that the coronavirus will just become another epidemic in the communities of the world and "may never go away," a top official at the World Health Organization (WHO) said on May 13. 

A vaccine that would be developed against the novel coronavirus shall belong to all of humanity, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on May 4, addressing the opening of a conference held by the European Union seeking to raise 7.5 billion euros in initial funding to support the fight against COVID-19.

When will we have a Covid-19 vaccine? Public-facing scientists such as the UK's chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance, and his US counterpart, Anthony Fauci, keep repeating that it won't be before 12 to 18 months. But other voices - including some of those in the race to create a vaccine themselves - have suggested that it could be as early as June. Who is right?

US health authorities have begun developing a vaccine against the deadly virus, which originated in China and has claimed more than a hundred lives so far, AFP reports.

National Institutes of Health (NIH) official spokesman Anthony Fauci told reporters: "We have already started at the NIH and with many of our collaborators on the developing of a vaccine," 

Only 2-3% of Bulgarians are vaccinated against flu. This is a low percentage to prevent the disease, said Prof. Tatyana Chervenyakova, a national consultant for infectious diseases, bTV reported.

According to her, Bulgaria is far behind other European countries, where the vaccine coverage is between 70 and 80 per cent.

Thousands of experimental Ebola vaccine doses from British GSK and U.S. NewLink should be ready for use by early 2015 in countries affected by the epidemic, the World Health Organization said