Cholera Vaccine

The head of the World Health Organization on Thursday called for increased production of cholera vaccines, highlighting what he called a "critical shortage" around the globe.

A shortage of cholera vaccines has forced a temporary shift to a one-dose strategy, from the usual two, in campaigns to fight a swelling number of outbreaks, the World Health Organization said Wednesday.

The West Bengal Governor has volunteered for the third phase trial of the indigenous COVID-19 vaccine, Covaxin. Inaugurating the commencement of trials at the ICMR-National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases (NICED) in Kolkata today, Governor Jagdeep Dhankar said he was happy to take the vaccine shot if found eligible.

The phase III trial of Covaxin-- the vaccine for COVID-19 -- at the National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Disease (NICED) in Kolkata will start from Wednesday, a senior official said.

A cholera epidemic in Yemen, one of the worst ever recorded, is likely to surge again around March, giving global health experts a few months to get vaccines in to the war-torn country to try to limit the next wave of cases.

The United Nations launched one of its biggest ever cholera vaccination drives in the vast refugee camps of southeast Bangladesh Tuesday amid fears of an outbreak among nearly a million Rohingya now living there.

Nearly 140 Indian soldiers, who are part of UN peace-keeping force in Haiti, will be administered cholera vaccine after the UN reportedly ordered a probe on how they had landed in the Caribbean country without the mandatory vaccination.

The powerful hurricane slammed into Haiti last week, killing at least 1,000 people according to a tally of numbers from local officials.

At least 29 people have died in a cholera outbreak in war-torn South Sudan with thousands more at risk of infection, the United Nations said today.

The National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases along with the International vaccine initiative have come up with a new Cholera vaccine.

The dreaded needle that used to make us jittery before the necessary visit to the doctor for immunisation may soon become a primitive way of vaccination. Efforts are underway in the Delhi University to develop a tomato based oral cholera vaccine. Researchers at the University of Delhi have introduced the cholera toxin gene in tomato plants. These ...

The head of the World Health Organization on Thursday called for increased production of cholera vaccines, highlighting what he called a "critical shortage" around the globe.

A shortage of cholera vaccines has forced a temporary shift to a one-dose strategy, from the usual two, in campaigns to fight a swelling number of outbreaks, the World Health Organization said Wednesday.

The West Bengal Governor has volunteered for the third phase trial of the indigenous COVID-19 vaccine, Covaxin. Inaugurating the commencement of trials at the ICMR-National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases (NICED) in Kolkata today, Governor Jagdeep Dhankar said he was happy to take the vaccine shot if found eligible.

The phase III trial of Covaxin-- the vaccine for COVID-19 -- at the National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Disease (NICED) in Kolkata will start from Wednesday, a senior official said.

A cholera epidemic in Yemen, one of the worst ever recorded, is likely to surge again around March, giving global health experts a few months to get vaccines in to the war-torn country to try to limit the next wave of cases.

The United Nations launched one of its biggest ever cholera vaccination drives in the vast refugee camps of southeast Bangladesh Tuesday amid fears of an outbreak among nearly a million Rohingya now living there.

Nearly 140 Indian soldiers, who are part of UN peace-keeping force in Haiti, will be administered cholera vaccine after the UN reportedly ordered a probe on how they had landed in the Caribbean country without the mandatory vaccination.

The powerful hurricane slammed into Haiti last week, killing at least 1,000 people according to a tally of numbers from local officials.

At least 29 people have died in a cholera outbreak in war-torn South Sudan with thousands more at risk of infection, the United Nations said today.

The National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases along with the International vaccine initiative have come up with a new Cholera vaccine.

The dreaded needle that used to make us jittery before the necessary visit to the doctor for immunisation may soon become a primitive way of vaccination. Efforts are underway in the Delhi University to develop a tomato based oral cholera vaccine. Researchers at the University of Delhi have introduced the cholera toxin gene in tomato plants. These ...