Twitter to start removing COVID-19 vaccine misinformation
Twitter said Wednesday that it will begin removing misinformation about COVID-19 vaccinations from its site.
Dec 16, 2020
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EU agency assessing COVID-19 vaccines hit by cyberattack
Two pharmaceutical companies in line for first conditional approval for their COVID-19 vaccine by the EU's medicine regulator said Wednesday their documents were "unlawfully accessed" during a cyberattack on a European Medicines ...
Dec 9, 2020
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Facebook to remove COVID-19 vaccine-related misinformation
Facebook said Thursday it will start removing false claims about COVID-19 vaccines, in its latest move to counter a tide of coronavirus-related online misinformation.
Dec 3, 2020
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Phishing ploy targets COVID-19 vaccine distribution effort
IBM security researchers say they have detected a cyberespionage effort using targeted phishing emails to try to collect vital information on the World Health Organization's initiative for distributing COVID-19 vaccine to ...
Dec 3, 2020
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Qantas to require COVID vaccine on international flights
International travellers will need to be vaccinated against COVID-19 to fly with Australia's Qantas, the company has said, the first major airline to suggest that such rules could become common across the industry.
Nov 24, 2020
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Microsoft: Russian, North Korean hackers target vaccine work
Microsoft said it has detected attempts by state-backed Russian and North Korean hackers to steal valuable data from leading pharmaceutical companies and vaccine researchers.
Nov 13, 2020
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Big data firm Palantir working with US on vaccine effort
Big data company Palantir is working with US health officials on a project to track the production and distribution of future COVID-19 vaccines.
Oct 23, 2020
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The politics behind how governments control coronavirus data
COVID-19 has affected almost every country around the globe. The World Health Organization has confirmed cases in 216 countries and territories, a total that represents more than 85 percent of 251 entities recognized by the ...
Jun 5, 2020
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Pinterest to direct vaccine-related searches to health orgs
Pinterest said Wednesday it will try to combat misinformation about vaccines by showing only information from health organizations when people search.
Aug 28, 2019
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Compact, low-cost fingerprint reader could reduce infant mortality around the world
A team of Michigan State University researchers have created Infant-Prints—a low-cost, high-resolution and portable solution to accurately identify infants in an effort to help reduce infant mortality around the world.
Jun 19, 2019
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Vaccine
A vaccine is a biological preparation that improves immunity to a particular disease. A vaccine typically contains a small amount of an agent that resembles a microorganism. The agent stimulates the body's immune system to recognize the agent as foreign, destroy it, and "remember" it, so that the immune system can more easily recognize and destroy any of these microorganisms that it later encounters.
Vaccines can be prophylactic (e.g. to prevent or ameliorate the effects of a future infection by any natural or "wild" pathogen), or therapeutic (e.g. vaccines against cancer are also being investigated; see cancer vaccine).
The term vaccine derives from Edward Jenner's 1796 use of the term cow pox (Latin variolæ vaccinæ, adapted from the Latin vaccīn-us, from vacca cow), which, when administered to humans, provided them protection against smallpox.
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