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Scientists Probing How 2 Nuclear Reactors Contracted 'Small Pox'
In a highly guarded Indian nuclear reactor complex, toughened radiation resistant pipes have contracted 'small pox'.
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Indians Knew Small Pox Inoculation Before Jenner invented Vaccine: Harsh Vardhan
Union Science and Technology Minister Harsh Vardhan today claimed that modern medicine originated in India and that Indians had practiced inoculation against small pox even before the vaccine for the disease was invented by Edward Jenner.
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Vaccine modified to fight bird flu virus
The vaccine will provide rapid protective responses.
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Research on antidote for anthrax
Scientists have doubled up their efforts to develop an antidote for the dreaded disease anthrax, the possibility of which has become a serious threat in the wake of the terrorist attacks in the USA. In an article published in the journal Current Biology, researchers at the Harvard Medical School in Boston have reported identifying a gene in mice t...
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Possibility of biological warfare after US attacks
There is a real threat of increased biological and chemical warfare after the attack on the World Trade Centre in New York on September 11, warns the World Health Organisation (WHO). In a recent address to public health officials, the head of the WHO warned governments to prepare for the eventuality of biological warfare in case the terrorist atta...
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Scientists Probing How 2 Nuclear Reactors Contracted 'Small Pox'
In a highly guarded Indian nuclear reactor complex, toughened radiation resistant pipes have contracted 'small pox'.
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Indians Knew Small Pox Inoculation Before Jenner invented Vaccine: Harsh Vardhan
Union Science and Technology Minister Harsh Vardhan today claimed that modern medicine originated in India and that Indians had practiced inoculation against small pox even before the vaccine for the disease was invented by Edward Jenner.
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Vaccine modified to fight bird flu virus
The vaccine will provide rapid protective responses.
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Research on antidote for anthrax
Scientists have doubled up their efforts to develop an antidote for the dreaded disease anthrax, the possibility of which has become a serious threat in the wake of the terrorist attacks in the USA. In an article published in the journal Current Biology, researchers at the Harvard Medical School in Boston have reported identifying a gene in mice t...
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Possibility of biological warfare after US attacks
There is a real threat of increased biological and chemical warfare after the attack on the World Trade Centre in New York on September 11, warns the World Health Organisation (WHO). In a recent address to public health officials, the head of the WHO warned governments to prepare for the eventuality of biological warfare in case the terrorist atta...
