The World Health Organization declared that it had prequalified an Ebola vaccine for the first time and hailed it as a ‘historic step’ for licensing, access and roll-out of the medicine in the countries that were on the risk of the outbreak of the virus. Prequalification means that medicine meets WHO standards for…
Author: Ralph Felix
Measles makes the body ‘forget’ how to fight infection
In a major revealing discovery, scientists have shown that measles has a devastating effect on the body’s immune system. It makes the immune system weaker and so it becomes difficult to fight off the infections for years. Scientists have given the name to this condition as ‘immune amnesia’ which means that the body’s…