Dallas nurse Nina Pham said she was “blessed and fortunate” as she addressed the media after being discharged Ebola-free from National Institutes of Health Friday afternoon. Pham was admitted to the Special Clinical Studies Unit of the NIH Clinical Center at the request of Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital on Oct. 16. She was the first nurse who […]
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October 24, 2014 |
October 24, 2014 |
NIH Working on Ebola Vaccine
Human testing of a second investigational Ebola vaccine candidate is underway at the National Institutes of Health’s Clinical Center in Bethesda, according to the NIH website. Researchers at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases are conducting the early phase trial to evaluate the vaccine, called VSV-ZEBOV, for safety and its ability to generate […]
September 9, 2014 |
Vaccination Clinics Underway Today in Germantown, Silver Spring
Parents of students enrolled in seventh grade are reminded that new immunization requirements announced earlier this year require students to have one Tdap (Tetanus-diphtheria-attenuated pertussis) and one meningococcal (MCV4) vaccination. Seventh grade students who do not show proof of the required immunizations will be excluded from school beginning Monday, September 15. “Currently we have more […]
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