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SYDNEY, October 17, 2024 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Australian researchers have discovered why mRNA vaccines can cause side effects such as headaches and fevers in a breakthrough that they said [...]

LONDON, March 12, 2023 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Had COVID-19 vaccines been shared equitably with the world, at least 1.3 million lives could have been saved in the first year [...]

OTTAWA, November 3, 2022 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Health Canada on Thursday authorized an adapted version of the Moderna Spikevax COVID-19 vaccine that targets the Omicron BA.4/BA.5 subvariants. Health Canada [...]

LOS ANGELES, August 19, 2022 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Despite a growing supply of the monkeypox vaccine in the United States, there is still no evidence that protection is reaching [...]

LILONGWE, May 21, 2022 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The Malawi government will roll out the oral cholera vaccine (OCV) on Monday in 8 targeted districts as the death toll reached [...]

BEIJING, May 11, 2022 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Since a new kind of acute hepatitis of unknown origin among children was first reported last month in Britain, around 300 cases [...]

NEW YORK, May 10, 2022 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The United States will have to limit the next generation of COVID-19 vaccines this fall to individuals at the highest risk [...]

JERUSALEM, March 28, 2022 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- A study of COVID-19 vaccine recipients in Israel has found that among people aged 60 and over, receiving a second booster shot [...]

SEOUL, February 14, 2022 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- South Korea's health authorities said on Monday that it began administering the fourth dose of COVID-19 vaccines to high-risk population, including people [...]

ROME, February 10, 2022 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- After surveying the results of a year's vaccination campaign in Italy, the Italian Medicines Agency (AIFA) found a rate of 0.2 fatal [...]

GABORONE, January 26, 2022 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Fears of side effects, associated with AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine when compared to other vaccines, could be possibly fueling reluctance to get their [...]

WASHINGTON, December 16, 2021 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Vaccine advisers to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) met on Thursday to weigh risk of the Johnson & [...]

LJUBLJANA, November 30, 2021 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- In Slovenia, a committee of experts confirmed that the death in September of a 20-year-old woman was linked to Janssen's COVID-19 vaccine, [...]

CANBERRA, November 10, 2021 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Australia's leading doctors' group has called for urgent action to address the low rate of COVID-19 vaccination among Indigenous people. The Royal [...]

TOKYO, October 11, 2021 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Developed countries hold hundreds of millions of excess COVID-19 vaccine doses at risk of expiring before they can be given to people [...]

LISBON, September 6, 2021 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Portugal had registered 14,447 adverse reactions out of a total of 14,664,616 doses of COVID-19 vaccines administered up to Aug. 31, said [...]

HELSINKI, September 2, 2021 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) has proposed that a third COVID-19 booster vaccine be offered to at-risk groups, even [...]

WELLINGTON, August 30, 2021 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- New Zealand reported one COVID-19 vaccine-related death on Monday following a woman's Pfizer vaccination and the resulting symptoms of myocarditis and pericarditis. [...]

WASHINGTON, August 4, 2021 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Most unvaccinated American adults don't believe the COVID-19 vaccines are very effective and see the vaccines as a greater health risk than [...]

JOHANNESBURG, July 22, 2021 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) said it was probing the deaths of 28 people who apparently died after receiving [...]

JERUSALEM, July 12, 2021 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Israel's health ministry on Monday instructed four health maintenance organizations to start offering the third doses of the COVID-19 vaccine for adults [...]

HOUSTON, July 7, 2021 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The pace of COVID-19 vaccinations is slowing in the U.S. state of Texas with the major concern about side effects, local media [...]

MONTEVIDEO, June 10, 2021 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The COVID-19 mortality rate among Uruguayans aged 18 to 69 who were vaccinated with Sinovac vaccine fell by more than 95 percent, [...]

BEIJING, May 28, 2021 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The incidence of adverse reactions to COVID-19 vaccines in China is 11.86 out of 100,000 doses, the Chinese Center for Disease Control [...]

GUANGZHOU, May 15, 2021 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- China has approved one more inactivated COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use, according to a recent announcement. Shenzhen Kangtai Biological Products Co., Ltd., [...]

WASHINGTON, April 12, 2021 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Several states in the United States have temporarily shut down some vaccine sites after people suffered adverse reactions to the shot. A [...]

BRUSSELS, April 7, 2021 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The European Medicines Agency (EMA) confirmed on Wednesday that the occurrence of blood clots with low blood platelets are strongly associated with [...]

BRUSSELS, April 7, 2021 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The European Medicines Agency (EMA) confirmed on Wednesday that the occurrence of blood clots with low blood platelets are strongly associated with [...]

BEIJING, March 31, 2021 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The following are the updates on the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. - - - - KIEV -- Ukraine's Health Ministry [...]

BRUSSELS, March 18, 2021 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Based on its preliminary investigation, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) on Thursday concluded that the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine is 'safe and effective,' [...]

KAMPALA, March 18, 2021 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Uganda on Thursday said it will continue administering the AstraZeneca vaccines despite reports of side effects. Ministry of health in a joint [...]

STOCKHOLM, March 16, 2021 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Sweden has paused the use of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine because of potential new and more serious side effects, the country's Public Health [...]

ROME, March 12, 2021 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Italy has blocked the use of a large lot of AstraZeneca vaccine following the death of an Italian soldier vaccinated from that [...]

PHNOM PENH, March 9, 2021 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- China's Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine is safe and effective with no serious side effects in Cambodia, the country's Health Ministry secretary of [...]

CANBERRA, February 24, 2021 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Two elderly Australians have been given a higher than recommended dose of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine, Australian Health Minister Greg Hunt confirmed on [...]

NAIROBI, February 23, 2021 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Scientists at the Nairobi-based International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) on Tuesday began testing ten vaccine candidates to help reduce deaths of pigs [...]

GENEVA, February 22, 2021 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The World Health Organization (WHO) and its partners have agreed to launch a program for claims of serious side effects among people [...]

WASHINGTON, February 19, 2021 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- While vaccines offer hope of an end to the COVID-19 pandemic, risks to the U.S. economic outlook remain substantial, the U.S. Federal [...]

WASHINGTON, February 6, 2021 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- More than 100,000 people in the United States have died of COVID-19 since Jan. 1 this year as the country are ramping [...]

HOUSTON, January 29, 2021 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The Houston Health Department said on Friday that it will focus its latest COVID-19 vaccine allocation on people at the highest risk [...]

WASHINGTON, January 22, 2021 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Over 1,200 adverse events were reported after receipt of Moderna COVID-19 vaccine as of Jan. 10, with 10 cases determined to be [...]

CANBERRA, January 19, 2021 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- A vaccine adviser to the Australian government said that the country will likely go ahead with the Pfizer vaccine despite recipients dying [...]

COPENHAGEN, January 16, 2021 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- An adverse reaction to the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine may be responsible for as many as 23 reported deaths among [...]

WASHINGTON, January 6, 2021 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Nearly 4,400 adverse events were reported after receipt of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine as of Dec. 23, with 21 cases determined to be [...]

WASHINGTON, December 29, 2020 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Scientists have speculated that the compound polyethylene glycol, also known as PEG, could cause allergic reactions to the COVID-19 vaccine developed by [...]

BEIJING, December 27, 2020 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Here are the highlights of China's health news from the past week: -- China's COVID-19 vaccines safe, effective Clinical trials and emergency [...]

WASHINGTON, December 14, 2020 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The United States started its COVID-19 vaccine rollout nationwide on Monday as death toll of the pandemic in the country topped 300,000. [...]

WASHINGTON, December 10, 2020 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The United States has reported more than 231,000 new COVID-19 cases and over 3,000 deaths in a single day on Wednesday, a [...]

WASHINGTON, September 22, 2020 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The United States hit another grim milestone on Tuesday, becoming the first in the world to have reported more than 200,000 COVID-19 [...]

TRIPOLI, May 19, 2020 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday said that more than 250,000 children in war-torn [...]