Home Sci-Tech Science March 26, 2024 05:30 am | Updated 05:30 am IST Barring a very few, most new-generation vaccines have a short duration of protection A health worker administers a vaccine. Representative photo. | Photo Credit: Mufid Majnun/Unsplash Once an individual has received a measles jab, they are usually considered protected against measles disease …
Monday marks four years since the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared Covid-19 a pandemic. Millions of people in India were infected and died from the virus with the persistent impact of long Covid-19 and post virus syndrome being studied. With the availability of Covid-19 vaccines and medicines, the virus will become much like a regular …
Researchers update the composition of influenza vaccines every six months to match the strains of the virus that are circulating in the wild, so that the shots may provide protective immunity against the flu. But despite their best efforts, researchers rarely perfectly match the strains loaded in the vaccine with the strains circulating by the time …
HYDERABAD: The newly detected JN.1 variant of the SARS-COV-2 virus is not expected to spread in a big way in the country as the existing Covid-19 vaccines and masking up in crowded places should be enough to tackle it, former Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) director general Dr Balram Bhargava said here on Wednesday.“As …
New Delhi: Covid-19 vaccines did not increase the risk of sudden death among young adults in India, according to an Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) study, which added that the spate of sudden deaths reported post Covid among young adults in India can be attributed to past-Covid hospitalisation, family history of sudden deaths, binge …