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Home-grown solutions
Life, Karnjana Karnjanatawe, Published on 21/06/2021
» The National Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (Biotec) is testing three different Covid-19 vaccines. Its target is to have at least one vaccine enter clinical trials by September.
Pandemics through the Ages: One more wake-up call unheeded?
Christopher Bruton, Published on 28/05/2020
» Pandemics have been an endemic feature of human history throughout the passage of time. They have killed off more people than wars and famines.
Virus pandemic linked to destruction of wildlife and world's ecosystems
Published on 15/04/2020
» Covid-19 is the latest example of how human impact on biodiverse areas and wildlife habitats is linked to the spread of infectious diseases.
Human capital to address threats of pandemic disease
Life, Published on 02/09/2014
» In 1918, as World War I drew to a close, an epidemic of Spanish flu took the lives of between 50 and 100 million people around the world. Every year physicians worry that a new strain of influenza will be as virulent as the Spanish flu.
Anti-flu vaccination behind schedule
News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 21/08/2013
» Distribution of the government's free influenza vaccines is behind schedule, which raises concerns over a possible influenza pandemic, the Department of Disease Control (DDC) says.
Ministry steps up bird flu measures
News, Published on 28/04/2013
» The Public Health Ministry has stepped up vigilance to contain any possible outbreak of H7N9 avian flu.
High alert against bird flu
Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 05/04/2013
» Health units nationwide have gone on high alert against the H7N9 virus, a new strain of avian influenza, after it claimed its sixth victim in China.
HK child has bird flu
AFP, Published on 02/06/2012
» Hong Kong health authorities on Saturday urged the public not to panic after the southern Chinese city reported its first human case of bird flu in 18 months in a two-year-old boy.