Tag:Vaccines

Agric & Biotech

Researchers push for region-tailored vaccines to tackle African swine fever

An international team of scientists has found that a promising African swine fever (ASF) vaccine can protect pigs against some strains of the virus...

Michael Simire - August 27, 2025

Health

WHO study lists top endemic pathogens for which new vaccines are urgently needed

A new World Health Organisation (WHO) study published on Tuesday, November 5, 2024, in eBioMedicine names 17 pathogens that regularly cause diseases in communities as top...

Michael Simire - November 5, 2024

Health

Local production cheaper than GAVI’s vaccine plans, expert reveals

A consultant with African Vaccine Manufacturing initiative, Alexander Ochem, has revealed that it is cheaper to produce vaccines locally than depending on the structures put...

Michael Simire - November 2, 2021

Agric & Biotech

Vaccines for basic health care critical for Nigeria – NABDA

The Director-General, National Biotechnology Development Agency (NABDA), Prof. Abdullahi Mustapha, says developing vaccines not only for coronavirus disease but for basic health care is...

Michael Simire - August 17, 2021