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Malaria vaccine rolled out in Cameroon; The latest health stories from around the world

Leave a Comment / Children, Featured, infectious diseases, Malaria, News, Newsletter, Paludisme, pan-Africa / Nick Parry

Article by Lalita Panicker, Consulting Editor, Views and Editor, Insight, Hindustan Times, New Delhi After a 60-year quest, childhood malaria vaccinations were administered to infants and toddlers in Cameroon on 22 January, the world’s first routine immunization against the disease. Remarkably, the RTS,S or Mosquirix, made by GlaxoSmithKline and approved for general use in 2021 […]

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Could bats hold the secrets to preventing cancer? The latest health stories from around the world

Leave a Comment / Featured, infectious diseases, News, Newsletter, Nigeria / Nick Parry

Article by Lalita Panicker, Consulting Editor, Views and Editor, Insight, Hindustan Times, New Delhi A new paper in Genome Biology and Evolution, published by Oxford University Press, shows that rapid evolution in bats may account for the animals’ extraordinary ability to both host and survive infections as well as avoid cancer.  https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1001498# Bats are exceptional among mammals

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