vaccines

New films support vaccines and health checks for people with a learning disability

People who have a learning disability and those who care for them are being reminded that it’s not too late for them to have a free flu vaccination and additional Covid-19 booster.

Preventing Covid-19 and flu is particularly important for people with learning disabilities, who are much more vulnerable to both viruses.

A series of three new films, launched by NHS Devon and...

Let’s go and make a difference: Call for more volunteers at Devon's large vaccination centres

Greendale vaccination centre volunteer Ian Aspinall has clocked up more than 100 shifts supporting the vaccine programme over the last five months. A retired police officer, he’s often there several days a week.

Ian said: “You meet some lovely people in what is hopefully a once in a lifetime occurrence. My parents endured the privations of World War Two and it was described as their...

Could self-disseminating vaccines cut off emerging infectious diseases at source?

An expert review identifies state-of-the-art of self-disseminating vaccines as a new and potentially powerful strategy to circumvent such diseases at the animal source before their establishment as the next human pandemic

The 2014/2015 Ebola outbreak in West Africa shone the spotlight not only on the unpreparedness of local health services and science to deal with the pandemic, but...