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India's Vaccine Growth Story to be published in 20 Indian Languages
Updated : 3 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 29: The 'Bestseller' book, India's Vaccine Growth Story- From Cowpox to Vaccine Maitri' written by Dr Sajjan Singh Yadav is to be published in 20 Indian Languages. This will help in spreading the story of India's global vaccine supremacy to every nook and corner of
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India is one of the countries with highest vaccine confidence: UNICEF repo
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Based on new data collected by The Vaccine Confidence Project (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) and published by UNICEF, the report reveals that popular perception of the importance of vaccines for children held firm or improved only in China, India and Mexico out of 55 cou
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Dr Subhash Babu, first Indian scientist to be awarded Bailey K. Ashford Me
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Dr. Subash Babu is the Scientific Director of the ICER (International Centre for Excellence in Research)- India Programme and is a leader in helminth infections and tuberculosis research, and he is the first Indian to receive both the Bailey K Ashford medal as well as the FASTMH award.
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Belgium become first country to introduce compulsory monkeypox quarantine
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Brussels [Belgium], May 23 (ANI): Belgium has become the first country to make the 21-day quarantine compulsory for the monkeypox patients after four cases of the disease have been reported last week.
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Discussions underway for WHO approval for Corbevax COVID-19 vaccine, says
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Houston [US], December 31 (ANI): Corbevax, a 'recombinant protein sub-unit' vaccine developed by Texas-based vaccine developers, was recently granted emergency approval by the Indian government and will be manufactured by the Hyderabad-based company Biological E, one of the world's largest v
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Being clean, hygienic need not impair childhood immunity: Study
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 5 (ANI): The theory that modern society is too clean, leading to defective immune systems in children, should be swept under the carpet, according to a new study by researchers at UCL and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
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Dogs are being trained to sniff out COVID-19
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Pennsylvania [US], April 30 (ANI): As the world is struggling to contain the coronavirus pandemic, could canines "revolutionize" the COVID-19 response by emerging as a "new diagnostic tool"? Experts believe so. Dogs are being trained in the US and the UK to sniff out the coronavirus.
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All 33 faculty members including Director of Calcutta School of Tropical M
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], Jun 14 (ANI): All the 33 faculty members including the Director of Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine resigned on Friday citing "inordinate delay" in handling of the situation arising out of agitation in protest against the "brutal attack" on a junior doctor
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Initiatives on avoidable blindness develops models to prevent, treat sight
Updated : 6 years, 12 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India] Jun 11 (ANI/NewsVoir): In a first of its kind initiative, to address the problem of avoidable blindness in India, the Ministry of Health, Government of India, Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), t
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