New vaccines to help address major gap in TB prevention, as existing vaccine offers limited protection against lung TB later in life. TB kills more people globally than any other infectious disease.
India’s space and vaccine trajectories moved with political currents rather than above them, argued a panel at the History Literature Festival in Hyderabad on Sunday.
Fears mount as authorities worldwide warn travellers who received the Abhayrab rabies vaccine in India to get replacement dosages as rumours of counterfeit batches circulate.
Infections like the flu or shingles trigger inflammation throughout the body, including in the brain. This stress is thought to accelerate brain ageing.
Medical news site STAT had cited internal documents to allege that Bharat Biotech had taken ‘questionable’ steps under political pressure to speed up development of Covaxin.
In India’s Vaccine Growth Story, Sajjan Singh Yadav writes how the British rulers, concerned about the mounting deaths of their personnel, set up several laboratories across India.
Pristine Biologicals, a subsidiary of Indian Immunologicals, has set up a new facility in Dargaville, New Zealand, to produce bovine serum, which is derived from cattle blood.
Amid the fear of Omicron, we usher in 2022 with 63 per cent of Indians being fully vaccinated, 90 per cent having at least one dose of the vaccine. And more caution.
The typhoid fever, caused by H58 Salmonella Typhi, a type of bacteria that has become resistant to multiple drugs, is an increasing public health threat in sub-Saharan Africa.
Russian crude delivered to India’s west coast is already at a premium of around $2.50 a barrel, while Brent is around $107 a barrel and the UAE’s Murban crude is near $119 a barrel.
In a seminal work, former military officers Lt. Gen. D.S. Hooda & Lt. Col. Pavithran Rajan put forth a framework to approach cognitive warfare, called Socio-Technical-Cognitive Battlespace.
India, China and Russia share more contradictions than congruence. Each has a different worldview, as also a different adversary. The rude fact is that BRICS is the most irrelevant of all such groupings.
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