The government’s chief scientific adviser criticised the health secretary yesterday for suggesting that vaccines would be 50 per cent less effective against the South African variant of coronavirus.

Viruses are notorious for rapidly exchanging genetic information between close relatives and with the host cells they infect. This exchange has profound effects on the nature and rapidity of virus ...

Cabinet will meet today to discuss an agreement between the government and GPs to ensure the smooth roll-out of the Astrazeneca vaccine.A senior government source confirmed that a Department of Health...

The loneliness that comes with the COVID-19 pandemic is particularly hard on people under 30 and those with previous mental health issues, research finds.

Seychelles and Myanmar will be getting Made in India vaccines on Friday. 

Seychelles will get 50,000 doses of vaccines on Friday at around 1 pm local time. The amount is significant since the population of the country is 97,000.

A new form of African swine fever identified in Chinese pig farms is most likely caused by illicit vaccines, industry insiders say, a fresh blow to the world's largest pork producer, still recovering from a devastating epidemic of the virus.

The "Spanish" influenza pandemic of 1918-1919, which caused approximately 50 million deaths worldwide, remains an ominous warning to public health. Many questions about its origins, its unusual epidemiologic features, and the basis of its pathogenicity remain unanswered.

Chinese health experts called on Norway and other countries to suspend the use of mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines produced by companies such as Pfizer, especially among elderly people, due to the vaccines' safety uncertainties following the deaths of 23 elderly Norwegian people who received the...

Israeli authorities should provide Covid-19 vaccines to the more than 4.5 million Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip.

MANILA, Jan 19, 2021, Reuters.The Philippines is now free of the highly pathogenic H5N6 bird flu virus, the Department of Agriculture said on Tuesday…...

For Katalin Karikó, vaccine approval is a validation of 40 years of hard work, and opens the door to a new generation of medicines...

Replication of a hyperimmune response in nonhuman primates could one day lead to treatments for people with severe cases of COVID-19.

PUNE, India: The tiny clinking vials supervised by silent PPE-wearing technicians belie the excitement inside the world's largest vaccine ...

Read more about Pakistan close to approving Russia's Sputnik vaccine as Covid cases rise on Business Standard. The country has already ordered 1.2 million doses from Chinese state-backed vaccine developer Sinopharm.

It may be a divisive move but proof of inoculation is likely to become the norm for anyone wanting to travel and enjoy life...

MANILA: The Philippines is now free of the highly pathogenic H5N6 bird flu virus, the Department of Agriculture said on Tuesday (Jan 19), citing a ...

China is rushing to build a massive quarantine camp that can house more than 4,000 people, after an outbreak of Covid-19 this month that has left tens of millions of people under strict lockdown....

Coronavirus measures like mask-wearing and increased vaccination rates have contributed to historically low levels of seasonal influenza, leading some to explore what might help most after the pandemic ends.

The longer the the EU is travelling in the vaccine slow lane, the more politically toxic it will become.

The ANC government faces the possibility of having its vaccine strategy challenged by DA forces in the Western Cape - who may try to find their own supply.

Research has found a devastating long-term toll on survivors, with people developing heart problems, diabetes and chronic conditions...

An electrolysis system can pull oxygen and fuel from briny water, just like the H2O on Mars. The tech also opens up oceans as a fuel source here on Earth.