Dengue Moment
For a country that has lived with dengue as a seasonal inevitability, the emergence of DengiAll, India’s indigenous single-shot dengue vaccine now in advanced trials in Delhi, is more than a scientific milestone.
For a country that has lived with dengue as a seasonal inevitability, the emergence of DengiAll, India’s indigenous single-shot dengue vaccine now in advanced trials in Delhi, is more than a scientific milestone.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has donated 2,160 doses of Ebola trial vaccine to Uganda to evaluate the efficacy of the vaccine in combating the virus which in the recent outbreak has killed a health worker in Kampala, the country's capital.
Indonesia is developing a new Tuberculosis (TB) vaccine to strengthen the fight against TB, which has claimed an average of 150,000 lives annually.
The landmark trial will evaluate the efficacy of India’s indigenous tetravalent dengue vaccine, DengiAll, developed by Panacea Biotec.
Specifically, the team compared the immune responses in people who were protected against CMV infection after receiving the older vaccine.
Albert Bourla, Chief Executive Officer of US-based pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, encountered a series of tough questions about the efficacy of its Covid vaccine on the sidelines of the ongoing World Economic Forum meeting, but he repeatedly ignored the queries and a video on it has gone viral.
While vaccine is one way to keep cervical cancer at bay, there are other ways to combat the same. The gynecologists share insights over the same.
The state has been reporting numerous cases of the menace of stray dogs who end up biting people. A petition is shortly coming up on the stray dog menace in the Supreme Court.
Dr Jitendra Singh pointed out that Cervical cancer ranks at the 2nd most prevalent cancers in India and accounts for nearly one-fourth of the world’s cervical cancer deaths despite being largely preventable.
It’s both the vaccine hesitancy coupled with less severity of infection in the current phase of the pandemic that has prompted the people not to take the third jibe.
