UK testing 'world first' vaccine for norovirus vomiting bug, aiming to curb burden on health system
The late-stage trial will recruit about 25,000 people around the world to test the new vaccine from Moderna.View on euronews
World-first vaccine for vomiting bug norovirus trialled in the UK
The jab uses mRNA technology to tell the immune system to recognise a ‘foreign’ protein on viruses and mount an attack.
What we know about the norovirus vaccine
We hate to say it, but norovirus season has arrived. The winter vomiting bug is notorious for being highly contagious and can put people out of commission for between one to three days. The number of people who catch norovirus each year in the UK is astronomically high - as many as four million people are struck down by it annually.
What is the norovirus vaccine as trials start in the UK?
A new vaccine against the winter vomiting bug, norovirus, is being tested on volunteers after preliminary findings indicated the injection elicited a “strong immune response”.
Norovirus vaccine trial to launch in the UK
A randomised clinical trial of an mRNA vaccine against norovirus will be launched in the UK within the next two weeks, it has been announced.
Vaccine for winter vomiting bug to be trialled on thousands
A vaccine is to be trialled on thousands of people to find out if it could protect against norovirus - a stomach bug that causes vomiting and diarrhoea. The easily spreadable winter virus can affect people of all ages and have huge consequences - often closing hospital wards, taking children out of school and keeping parents off work.
Norovirus vaccine to be trialled in the UK in world-first
A trial in the UK will see a norovirus given to patients with the Health Secretary hoping it will cut the “burden on the NHS”.
How world’s first norovirus vaccine could keep thousands out of hospital
A vaccine for the vomiting bug norovirus is being trialled in the UK for the first time, with the hope it could cut the “burden on the NHS”, the Health Secretary has said. The new mRNA vaccine from Moderna will enter final stages of testing within the next two weeks,
World-first norovirus vaccine trialled in UK hospitals
A first-of-its-kind vaccine against the vomit bug norovirus is being trialled in the UK, using the same tech employed in the Covid jab. Thousands of Brits end up in hospital every year due to the highly contagious virus,
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