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TopicChikungunya

Topic: chikungunya

World’s 1st vaccine against chikungunya primed for launch in India, says French drugmaker Valneva

VLA1553, commercially known as Ixchiq, has received USFDA clearance and will be launched in India — which has seen high number of chikungunya cases — after ‘regulatory talks with DCGI’.

Hope for chikungunya vaccine: French drugmaker reports 99% immune response in Phase 3 trial

Trial of live-attenuated vaccine VLA1553 was conducted in US, with high seroprotection rates observed in participants up to 180 days after vaccination. Study published in 'The Lancet'.

Chikungunya strain from India, Bangladesh likely caused 2018-19 Thailand outbreak, study says

Researchers from Chulalongkorn University in Thailand find that chikungunya strain identified in Thailand has mutations that originated in India and Bangladesh

On Camera

The influencer war that took rural creator Pujarini Pradhan global

As social media debated whether audiences were consuming Pujarini Pradhan as a symbol, The Juggernaut turned her into a story that could circulate globally, with or without her participation.

SEBI proposes return of open market share buybacks to support stocks

Regulator seeks feedback on allowing firms to repurchase shares via exchanges after tax changes, as markets reel from war-led selloff and foreign outflows.

South Korea’s Cheongung-II missile system makes its mark in West Asia war. Here’s why

UAE has been using this defence system, which is similar to America's Patriots, against Iranian missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles.

China insulated itself against energy shocks. India is ‘all talk, no walk’

China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.