-The Telegraph Centre’s vaccine policy advisers earlier this week approved release of intranasal vaccine into the private market New Delhi: Indian vaccine maker Bharat Biotech announced on Tuesday that its intranasal Covid-19 vaccine, approved by the Centre as a booster dose, would be available at private hospitals for Rs 800 plus additional taxes and service charges per dose. People 18 years or older who have taken two doses of Covaxin, Covishield or any...
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‘Low Immunity, hard to isolate’: How ageing stray cattle contributed to lumpy skin disease outbreak -Sayantan Bera
-ThePrint.in Free movement of unproductive cattle prone to infections has proven to be a severe challenge in restricting the viral disease and contributed most to mortality load, say experts. New Delhi: Over the past few years, the rising population of stray cattle has been a menace to farmers. In several states in northern India, farmers regularly guard their fields at night and spend thousands on fencing to protect their crops. But the impact...
More »2 in 5 Indian children missing out on preventive vitamin A dose: Study -Priyanka Sharma
-Livemint.com Vitamin A is important for many cellular processes in the human body that are critical for eyesight, growth and development, wound healing, reproduction and Immunity, among others NEW DELHI: Two in five children in India are missing out on vitamin A supplements designed to prevent health problems associated with deficiency of the vitamin, according to an analysis of representative survey data published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) Global Health. Vitamin A...
More »Severe malnutrition or wasting, ‘excruciatingly painful’ threat to child survival
-United Nations News Severe malnutrition, also known as severe wasting, is one of the top threats to child survival, yet perhaps one of the least known or understood, according to a report issued on Tuesday by the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF). Severe Wasting: An overlooked child survival emergency, details that around one in five deaths among children under age five, can be attributed to severe wasting. Triggered by a lack of nutritious food...
More »Tata Mundra: Nobel laureate, others ask US apex court to drop Immunity to World Bank
-Counterview.net Economic, legal, diplomatic and civil society experts – including Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize-winning economist, and former Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank – have urged the United States Supreme Court to go back to the case Budha Ismail Jam, et al v. IFC , (Tata Mundra case) concerning Immunity from the suit for the World Bank Group and foreign nations. They said, the Immunity decision in the...
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