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People should get vaccinations against the diseases before a disease outbreak like the Ebola one
Amid rising cases of coronavirus, Ebola and monkeypox in Africa, a growing movement of African scientists is advocating for improved biosecurity. Presently, a few African manufacturers have experience making vaccines from start to finish, including Biovac Institute in South Africa, which produces a hepatitis B vaccine and the Institut Pasteur de Dakar in Senegal, which…
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Western aid to fight a disease is backfiring
African countries should train field epidemiologists, Ph.D. scientists and frontline health-care workers to build capacity on the ground to fight the African monkeypox epidemic, Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (ACDC) has said. This comes after South Korea donated 50,000 doses of monkeypox vaccine to the African Union. According to ACDC, monkeypox causes death…
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People who helped shape science in the 20th century.
Climate scientist and monkeypox watchman Svitlana Krakovska has been appointed as the chair of the World Health Organization’s International Advisory Group on Vaccination against COVID-19. She is a former director of the World Health Organization’s Centre for Disease Control and Prevention. She has previously served as the chairman of the US Centers for Disease Control…