Russia: Between Poison and Vaccine Russia’s ignoble policy of intolerance and eliminating by all means possible every form of opposition has again manifested by the recent poisoning of Alexei Navalny, an opposition leader and a well-known President Putin’s critic. Mr Navalny, 44, suddenly fell ill on a flight to Moscow from Tomsk, a city in […]
COVID-19 Vaccine Only Hope As Practiced Treatments Fail To Show Results? Even after almost a year of its worldwide invasion the SARS-Cov-2 virus called COVID-19 continues to enjoy an edge over humankind which is not surprising considering the unprecedented crisis brought in by a virus hardly known to anybody, its seemingly selective approach in terms […]
Contraindications of Lyme Disease Vaccine A common infection brought by ticks is Lyme disease. Its characteristics are Erythema Migrans, and varied systemic manifestations. The borrela burgdorferi is a spirochete present in deer ticks. It is transmitted through bites during their nymphal stage. Thankfully, vaccine is available for this disease. Not every tick transmits this disease. […]
COVID-19 Vaccine: Optimism Grows As Two More Candidates Enter Final Human Trials Phase! Optimism for a possible cure for COVID-19 has been growing since the positive results obtained for the vaccine being developed by Oxford-AstraZeneca in its initial two human trials. Now, two more vaccines, namely by Moderna Inc and by Pfizer Inc in the […]
Corona Virus, Size And Shape, Mask Effectiveness, Areas Unaffected, No Vaccine Yet The loss of US population matches the death toll of second World War. We cannot gloat on this depressing position. Defense methods like social distancing, frequent washing of hands, cleaning car knobs, door knobs, table surfaces, avoiding public crowded places like theaters, sports […]
COVID-19 Vaccine Race: Russia Declares Sputnik V Breakthrough! Russia becomes the first country in the world to officially approve a COVID-19 vaccine, significantly named ‘Sputnik V’; Sputnik 1 was the first ever orbital satellite launched in 1957 which set off a space war between the superpowers, the USA prominently. Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on […]
H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccine – What Are the Pros and Cons and What Are Your Options? As of now, there are limited quantities of H1N1 vaccines available, but are increasing on a daily basis. Both the Nasal Spray and injections are available. What is interesting, and a little disconcerting, is that members of the medical […]