On the bright side, it's a boon for the companies that produce pollen filtering masks.

The widespread use of vaccine and urbanization has led to control of the disease in Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Singapore.

In the United States, the vaccine was licensed in 1971 and the second dose was introduced in 1989.

Whether such attitudes and misinformation account for poor vaccine coverage in places like France and the US is still not known.

Manipulation of CpG S and CpG N sequences in the plasmid backbone of DNA vaccines can ensure the success of the immune response to the encoded antigen, and drive the immune response toward a TH1 phenotype.

On April 14, 2009, Dendreon Corporation announced that their Phase III clinical trial of Provenge, a cancer vaccine designed to treat prostate cancer, had demonstrated an increase in survival.

It contains important provisions requiring the generation of an audit trail of information being accessed, and allows patients the ability to partition their data so that, for example, genetic information is not revealed when they go for a flu shot.

The most suitable stage for a cancer vaccine is likely to be early disease, when the tumor volume is low, but the problem there is that clinical trials take upwards of five years and require high numbers of patients to reach measurable end points.

It deteriorates so quickly in the tropics that we've had to put this special vaccine monitor on every single vial so that it will change very quickly when it's exposed to too much heat, and we can tell that it's not a good vaccine to use on a child it's not potent it's not going to protect them.