Polio continues to remain a public health emergency
With the continued risk of international spread, WHO has announced that polio will remain a public health emergency for three more months. Polio was declared as public health emergency of…
Category: vaccine
‘Serum’s pneumococcal vaccine will be available by June 2020’
Serum Institute is optimistic that its pneumococcal vaccine will be available in India by June 2020. The vaccine is yet to be approved by the DCGI. But phase-3 trial data…
WHO prequalifies Serum’s low-cost pneumococcal vaccine
WHO has prequalified Pune-based Serum Institute’s pneumococcal conjugate vaccine made of 10 serotypes that are widely prevalent and cause pneumonia in Latin America, Africa and Asia. The vaccine will cost…
TB: Delivering BCG vaccine intravenously vastly improves efficacy
Changing the route of BCG vaccine administration from intradermal to intravenous and using a higher dosage showed vast improvement in vaccine efficacy. Nine of the 10 animals that received the…
Measles cases continue to increase globally since 2016
There has been a 59% drop in measles cases between 2000 and 2018. Yet, since 2016, there has been a spike in the number of cases reported. There were over…
2.3 million children in India unvaccinated for measles, second highest globally
At 2.3 million, India has the second highest number of children who are not vaccinated against measles. In 2017, 2.9 million children in India under one year of age had…
Bharat Biotech’s typhoid conjugate vaccine offers 82% protection
Bharat Biotech’s typhoid conjugate vaccine shows nearly 82% efficacy at 12 months in a Phase-3 trail carried out in Nepal. It can be be given to babies as young as…
Infants become susceptible to measles earlier than thought
In countries that have eliminated or nearly eliminated measles, maternal antibodies against the virus have been found to protect infants for only first three months after birth and not six…
