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A Potential Reason Behind COVID Vaccines' Waning Benefit
The inability of COVID vaccines to reach the long-lived plasma cell compartment in the bone marrow may explain their waning ...
Dear Doctor: Should older adult, who never had chickenpox, get the shingles vaccine?
DEAR DR. ROACH: A few months ago, you wrote about the benefits of the shingles vaccine. At 63, I’m one of the 1% who has ...
In vitro model enables study of age-specific responses to COVID mRNA vaccines
RNA vaccines saved lives during the COVID-19 pandemic, but older people had less of an immune response to the vaccines than ...
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CDC: Less Than 1% of Mpox Cases Occurred After Two Doses of Jynneos Vaccine
"Studies have indicated that vaccine titers decrease a few months after vaccination," they wrote. "However, the clinical significance of waning antibody levels is uncertain." Booster doses of the ...
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Immunoglobulin Response in Serum and Secretions after Immunization with Live and Inactivated Poliovaccine and Natural Infection
Varying dilutions of supernatant test samples were subjected to ... After immunization, gamma-G antibody titers rose steadily in both vaccine groups. At the age of five months (90 days after ...
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63-year-old debates getting shingles and chicken pox vaccines
A few months ago, you wrote about the benefits of the shingles vaccine. At 63, I’m one of the 1% who has never had, nor been exposed to, chicken pox. I was tested in 2022 for varicella-zoster virus ...