This week, Goats and Soda learned of a pretty icky research experiment taking place in our nation's capital. People are becoming infected with hookworm in the name of science, as researchers seek to develop a vaccine. Check out this article on why there is a need to infect volunteers for the progression of vaccines for the neglected tropical diseases.
Trying To Get The World Unhooked From Hookworm
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Dr. David Diemert, the director of the George Washington University Vaccine Research Unit, weighs in on President Donald Trump's executive order pushing for revisions to how children in the US are vaccinated and what that means for the future.
The GW VRU is a site for a clinical trial to examine Pfizer's new C. diff vaccine.
This was a phase 2, randomized, open-label, non-placebo controlled trial to evaluate two partial doses o the Modified Vaccinia Ankara-Bavarian Nordin (MVA-BN) vaccine for protection against mpox.
