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News: Vaccination A Safe Medical Procedure That Saves Lives' - Africa Must Eradicate Polio
Dakar — Speaking at the Forum for Polio Vaccination and Eradication in Africa this weekend in Dakar, President Macky Sall urged heads of state and other stakeholders to swiftly re-mobilize around the Addis Declaration in order to combat decreasing vaccination rates and the reappearance of polio.
The fight against the resurgence of other vaccine-preventable diseases given the decline in basic vaccination coverage across the continent, and the establishment of vaccine manufacturing programs on the continent to ensure that no child is left behind were other things Sall urged them to do. He also urged them to reaffirm their commitment to systematic immunization towards the eradication of polio.
Human monkeypox: a comparison of the characteristics of the new epidemic to the endemic disease
The World Health Organization on July 23, 2022, declared a public health emergency of worldwide concern in response to a new global epidemic of mpox (formerly known as human monkeypox), which started in May 2022. We conducted a thorough review of the existing literature on human monkeypox to discuss epidemiology, modes of transmission, clinical presentation and asymptomatic infection, diagnostics, therapeutics, and vaccines with the main goal of identifying crucial areas for future research of this new epidemic form of the disease. Nonendemic countries have new patterns of person-to-person spread within sexual networks, and there are several differences from the classic disease course.
Adverse Drug Reactions Overly Affect Women. The Reason Why Is Starting to Emerge
We can better comprehend illnesses and their progression over time thanks to biomedical research. The majority of it was previously done using male cells and experimental animals like mice. The findings of such "pre-clinical" studies on males have been presumed to also apply to girls.
World-First Trial Transfusing Lab-Grown Red Blood Cells Begins
Clinical treatment for patients with blood problems who require routine blood top-ups may be revolutionized by a study examining how long a teaspoon-sized transfusion of lab-grown red blood cells lasts in the body.
Red blood cells created in a lab are being compared to blood cells made in the body in a world-first trial now taking place in the UK.
Even though the experiment is tiny, one of the researchers, Ashley Toye, a cell biologist at the University of Bristol, believes it is a "major stepping stone towards making blood from stem cells."
The study team extracted stem cells from donated blood and encouraged them to induce the production of more red blood cells, which takes around three weeks.
COVID cases and flu hospitalizations are increasing as some begin holiday travel
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