Zoologist and a vaccine pioneer Waldemar Mordecai Haffkine, a Russian Jew who had trained in Odessa and developed his skills in Paris, in search of cholera at a time when the world of international bacteriology was factional and prone to suspicion. He created the world’s first vaccines for cholera and plague, but an accidental…
The UK’s world-first Covid-19 vaccine rollout is facing problems for two people with serious allergies to medicines or food, within 24 hours. Two unnamed healthcare workers who have a significant history of an allergic reaction are recovering following the first day of the mass vaccination programme, as it is understood in the US vaccine trial…
Ninety-year-old Margaret Keenan known as Maggie is UK’s first vaccine recipient said she feels “so privileged” to receive the jab as the UK begins the biggest vaccination programme in NHS history. The UK is the first country in the world to start using the Pfizer vaccine after regulators approved its use last week. Globally 68million…
Dr. Onyema Ogbuagu, the Nigerian doctor who led Pfizer’s study for the Coronavirus vaccine in the United States, is also director of HIV Clinical Trials program at the Yale AIDS program, Infectious Diseases Swction, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, New York. Ogbiagu is part of a team of researchers at Pfizer which announced in…
Frank Carney (82), Pizza Hut’s co-founder died on Wednesday of Pneumonia. Frank Carney and his brother, Dan, started the company when Frank was a 19-year-old Wichita State University student near their family’s grocery store in Kansas City. Frank recently recovered from Covid-19 and was also suffering from Alzheimer’s for more than 10 years. The first…
Recent surges in Covid cases in Jersey, pubs, bars, and restaurants are set to close from 00.01 GMT on Friday for up to a month amid fears health services could be overwhelmed. Only takeaways and all shops can stay open, but indoor sport and fitness classes and gyms must close and the 2meter distancing law…
This year the World Aid Day focuses on Global Solidarity, shared responsibility because of the worldwide impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. The fight against HIV and Aids was first observed in 1988, World AIDS Day shows support for people living with HIV, along with remembering those who died from an AIDS-related sickness and observed by…
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/dangerous-driving-phone-video-facebook-19355946 Justin Jones (30) who filmed on his iPhone and live-streamed himself speeding at more than 120mph in Wales was arrested after a bizarre tip-off from Canada. His live stream on Facebook watched a viewer in Canada 4, 000 miles away was unimpressed and phone the British police. Jones of Panteng, Fellnfoel, Llanelli, drove on…
Pets at Home. the specialist veterinary business has been sold to rival Linnaeus Group, the US Private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) for £955m in a deal that hands its top directors, and co-investors, and founders ROI. The five sites being sold to Linnaeus which is part of Mars Petcare are Dick White Referrals…
The UK has become the first country in the world to approve the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine by the British regulator, the MHRA, who says the jab, which offers 95 per cent protection against Covide-19 illness I safe for rollout. The UK has already ordered 40 million doses enough to vaccinate 20m people with two shots each.…