Sinovac and Sinopharm companies are the leading vaccine manufacturers in China. And both vaccines have been approved by the World Health Organization (WHO) to fight COVID-19. Sinovac is a private company, while Sinopharm is managed by the government. Chinese scientists used the same method to make both vaccines. Dr. Andrea Cox, professor at Johns Hopkins … Read more
AFP — An outbreak of bird flu has killed more than 2,000 wild storks in a nature reserve in northern Israel. The parks service on Sunday (12/26) said the high death toll was very unusual at the time of the seasonal flu. Ohad Hatsofe, an expert at the Israel Parks and Nature Authority, told AFP … Read more
A SpaceX capsule carrying four astronauts on Thursday (11/11) successfully docked at the International Space Station, which will be their new home until next spring. The capsule, named Dragon, takes about 21 hours to reach the International Space Station. The capsule flight started from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Three astronauts from the US … Read more
FLY — Amazon’s audiobook service Audible said Friday it had removed apps for reading the Koran and the Bible from its Apple store in mainland China due to government “permission requirements”. Developers of other Quran and Bible apps, including Olive Tree Bible Software in the US, also said their apps were removed from the Apple … Read more
The announcement of the discovery of the first malaria vaccine not only raises hope in the fight against one of the world’s worst diseases, but also underscores the importance of tackling this catastrophe from all sides. The message was conveyed by the leader of the Initiative Against Malaria (PMI), Dr. Raj Panjabi. The organization, initiated … Read more
Johnson & Johnson announced Wednesday that a clinical trial showed a second injection of a COVID-19 vaccine produced a nine times higher antibody response than the US pharmaceutical company’s first dose. In a news release, the company said it had conducted two Phase 1/2a studies on individuals who were previously vaccinated with a single injection. … Read more
The World Health Organization or WHO and the United Nations Children’s Fund UNICEF, Thursday (15/7), reported that 23 million children last year were not immunized against deadly diseases such as measles, polio and diphtheria. Both agencies said the disruption to immunization services caused by COVID-19 had slowed progress on vaccination of children by a decade. … Read more
The Sinovac Biotech COVID-19 vaccine is being offered to the public in Singapore for the first time since Friday (18/6), but several private clinics are reporting overwhelming demand for the vaccine even though a rival vaccine is already available that has much higher efficacy. Singapore has vaccinated nearly half of its 5.7 million population with … Read more
AFP — World Health Organization (World Health Organisation/WHO) on Saturday (19/6) officially announced the end of the second Ebola outbreak in Guinea. The outbreak was declared in February and has killed 12 people. According to WHO data, there are 16 confirmed cases and seven suspected infections. The latest low number of cases stems from the … Read more
A Chinese unmanned spacecraft successfully landed on the surface of Mars on Saturday (15/5). Government news agency Xinhua reported that the landing makes China the second space explorer country after the United States to land on the Red Planet. The Tianwen-1 spacecraft landed at a location on a vast plain known as the Utopia Planitia, … Read more