At least five medical workers in Uganda have been confirmed to be infected with the Ebola virus as the outbreak continues to spread in the central region. Dr Herbert Luswata, the secretary general of the Uganda Medical Association, told the […]
BioNTech, a German pharmaceutical company, intends to produce its first malaria vaccine and start clinical trials next year. The aggressive timeline is possible because of the MRNA technology that was utilized to create the Pfizer and Moderna coronavirus vaccines in […]
The South African woman who was recently in the news after it was reported she birthed 10 babies, was never pregnant.This is according to a report by South Africa’s “Eyewitness News” which revealed that the woman shows no signs of […]
No hospital in this rural community has recorded a covid-19 death. But another menace fills graves on a grimly predictable schedule. The seasonal downpours that soak the red dirt roads here nurture clouds of mosquitoes that spread malaria. Researchers call it a […]
Scientists show that evolution of the ability to digest milk in Sudanese populations has been shaped by complex interactions of gene-flow and selection In a new study published open access in Genome Biology and Evolution, researchers from Uppsala University and […]
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