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Luciferase is a useful tool in medicine and has nothing to do with Satan.
Teaming up to tackle polio in Lagos
With a recent outbreak of Vaccine-Derived Polio in Lagos and other states in Nigeria caused by poor vaccination coverage, teams are working to ensure that no child is left behind.
Is this the great vaccine-mandate resignation that wasn’t?
COVID-19 vaccine mandates have spurred protests and resignations. But the evidence so far points to marginal workforce losses. Evidence also suggests that mandates keep people safe and save lives.
Geneva/New York, 16 November 2021 – Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance (Gavi) and the member agencies of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) the humanitarian system’s main coordinating body1, are working together to ensure that the most vulnerable…
First Greek COVAX doses arrive in Kenya and Syria
The first shipments of a 3 million dose pledge to COVAX thus far by Greece have arrived in Kenya (376,800 doses) and Syria (144,000). This builds on previous funding commitments of EUR 1.5 million to the Gavi COVAX Advance Market Commitment (Gavi…
My shampoo stinks of vomit: How COVID-19 can mess up your sense of smell
Increasingly, people who are recovering from COVID-19 are reporting a distorted perception of odours, also known as parosmia.
Why having bad oral health could raise the risk of COVID
Badly controlled bacteria in the mouth pose multiple risks.
Kenya’s weak link in the fight against COVID-19
On 7 October Kenya launched an ambitious campaign to vaccinate over a million operators in the public transport sector.
How disease has stimulated cultural change
Laws and rituals surrounding disease have been part of everyday life for millennia. Here's why that's important.
Would you get vaccinated in a bank? Mobile vaccination clinics take off in Nigeria
Businesses and corporate organisations are making special arrangements to protect workers and, by extension, customers through mobile vaccination.
History’s Seven Deadliest Plagues
SARS-CoV-2 has officially claimed 5 million lives, but credible estimates place the pandemic’s true death toll closer to 17 million. Either count secures COVID-19’s position on our list of history’s deadliest plagues.
What pneumonia can teach us about COVID-19
COVID-19 still has many unknowns, but hope lies in what we already know about preventing and treating pneumonia.