vaccine

Is India close to developing an indigenous monkey fever vaccine?

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The country’s top medical research body—the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)— has partnered with Hyderabad-headquartered Indian Immunological Ltd to develop the country’s first monkey fever vaccine. Kyasanur Forest Disease (KFD), commonly known as monkey fever, is a vector-borne haemorrhagic fever transmitted by ticks from infected monkeys to people. It has no cure. Work on … Read more

At Davos, Adar Poonawalla Explains Vaccine Plans To NDTV

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Davos/New Delhi: With the world having moved away to a large extent from broader concerns on COVID – it is something that is never really going away – it’s also time to focus on new vaccines that can change the lives of any number of people around the world. The Serum Institute of India (SII) … Read more