Source link Over 150 people died due to an outbreak of the disease in the African nation between October and March this year, according to WHO Nigeria has rolled out a new meningitis vaccine – Men5CV – becoming the first country in the world to do so, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Friday, […]
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Covid vaccine pioneer dies — RT Russia & Former Soviet Union
Source link Boris Naroditsky was responsible for creating the adenovirus vector platform that served as the basis for the Sputnik-V shot One of the lead developers of the Russian Sputnik-V coronavirus vaccine, Boris Naroditsky, has died at the age of 82, the chief researcher of the Gamaleya Epidemiology and Microbiology Research Center, Anatoly Altstein, announced […]
Indian vaccine baron to buy London’s most expensive mansion — RT India
Source link Billionaire Adar Poonawalla is set to pay $175 million for a house near Hyde Park in the UK’s biggest property deal this year Adar Poonawalla, the CEO of Serum Institute of India (SII), the largest vaccine manufacturing company in the world by volume, has sealed a deal to purchase the decades-old Aberconway House […]
Malaria vaccine comes to Cameroon — RT Africa
Source link Yaounde’s Nsimalen International Airport received 331,200 doses of Mosquirix late Tuesday, making Cameroon the first African country to obtain a large shipment of the malaria vaccine manufactured by British drugmaker GSK following its approval by the World Health Organization (WHO) in autumn 2021. Mosquirix is the trade name of RTS,S – the world’s […]
Pfizer sues Poland over Covid-19 vaccine — RT World News
Source link US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has escalated its feud with Poland over excess Covid-19 vaccine doses that were ordered under a massive contract with the European Union, filing a lawsuit to demand payment for 60 million jabs that Warsaw didn’t need. The case was filed this week in Brussels, demanding 6 billion zloty ($1.5 […]