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Re:Google and Facebook mandate vaccines for employees at U.S... by chopin on Thursday July 29, 2021 @03:55AM (#27994001)
Afaik at least for the Adenovirus based ones these have not been used before as well.
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Re:Google and Facebook mandate vaccines for employees at U.S... by yosito on Thursday July 29, 2021 @04:03AM (#27994053)
There are several adenovirus based vaccines, including vaccines for tuberculosis and influenza, among others. The first adenovirus vaccine I'm aware of was developed in the 1970s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral_vector

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Re:Google and Facebook mandate vaccines for employees at U.S... by chopin on Thursday July 29, 2021 @07:49AM (#27995351)
According to [1] there are only Covid and Ebola approved vaccines based on an Adenovirus vector. Only for the latter we have a couple of years of data and I am not sure whether it has been administered to large populations.

For tuberculosis there is no approved vector based vaccine [2]. Neither for influenza [3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral_vector_vaccine

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuberculosis_vaccines

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza_vaccine#Manufacturin...

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