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India can lead efforts to find new TB vaccine, says WHO’s former chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan

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Hybrid immunity offers more protection against severe Covid than infection alone: Study

Davos 2023 | Pfizer says biggest challenge during pandemic was negotiating politics

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on January 19, 2023.

Town where child cancer rose blasts deal over polluted site

Homes in one of the residential neighbourhoods closest to the former Ciba Geigy chemical plant in Toms River, N.J., are shown Tuesday, January 24, 2023. The contaminated plant site is on the Superfund list of the nation’s worst toxic waste sites. A proposed settlement to restore natural resources damaged by the company’s dumping is widely opposed as insufficient by residents of Toms River, where childhood cancer rates from the late 1970s through 1990s occurred at elevated rates.

The state health department found that 87 children in Toms River had been diagnosed with cancer from 1979 through 1995.

WHO calls for action to protect children from contaminated medicines after cough syrups deaths

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Why India has not witnessed any surge in COVID-19 cases for months

A pedestrian walks past a wall mural depcting the coronavirus in Mumbai on January 29, 2022. Except for a short period — mid-June to mid-August — after the third wave, India has not witnessed even an uptick in new infections in 2022.

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XBB.1, which also descended from XBB, accounted for 14% of new cases in India around mid-December 2022.

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A woman walks past a billboard with a COVID-19 awareness message at the Anna International Airport in Chennai on December 22, 2022.

RT-PCR must to get boarding passes for flyers from China, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, Japan

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Covid might not go away but no major outbreak likely in India: Expert

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Pfizer's haemophilia B gene therapy succeeds in late-stage study

Studies indicate that the incidence of cervical cancer is inversely proportional to the human development index of countries.

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On a rise: Medical staff assist patients at a clinic treating COVID-19 patients, in China.

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Tourists at the Taj Mahal on December 24, 2022. The health department in Agra has begun screening and collecting samples of foreign tourists at Taj Mahal, Agra Fort and Akbar’s Tomb.

Agra man from China tests positive for COVID-19