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ViVa breaking news: Global vaccine updates – 23 December 2025

Europe On 11 December 2025, EMA’s CHMP recommended granting marketing authorisation in the EU for mNexspike, an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine targeting the LP.8.1 variant for the 2025–26 season, adding another option to the...

24 December, 2025

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Vaccine manufacturer news

Western Companies Moderna (UK). Moderna has opened a new mRNA vaccine manufacturing facility in Oxfordshire, UK, with the capacity to produce approximately 100 million doses annually under steady-state conditions...

2 October, 2025

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Zoonotic pathogens in India’s food chain: threats and solution

Zoonotic pathogens, disease-causing agents transmitted from animals to humans, pose a critical and often overlooked threat to public health, particularly through the food chain. The recent COVID-19 pandemic has...

16 December, 2024

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Tomato flu outbreak in India

Just as we are dealing with the probable emergence of fourth wave of COVID-19, a new virus known as tomato flu, or tomato fever, has emerged in India in the state of Kerala in children younger than 5 years.1 The rare...

25 August, 2022

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India chasing new Tuberculosis vaccines after 100 years

Chasing India’s target of eliminating tuberculosis by 2025, scientists at the Indian Council of Medical Research have recruited about 12,000 participants for a phase III study of two potential vaccines. The researchers...

11 October, 2021

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Emory Vaccine Center-India partnership sheds light on Dengue immune response

India suffers from the highest number of dengue infections in the world, but there are few studies, if any, to understand the immune cells involved in fighting the virus. A recent study published in the Journal of...

26 October, 2016

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India explores ‘heat-proof’ vaccines to stop vital medicines going to waste

As India is witnessing wastage of at least 50 per cent of vaccines stocked by various healthcare agencies owing to heat exposure, the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSO) has decided to explore the idea of...

30 April, 2015

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Swine flu virus in India ‘has become more virulent’ since 2009 outbreak

Since December 2014, swine flu has claimed the lives of over 1,300 people in India, making it the worst outbreak of the virus in the country since 2009. But according to a new study by researchers from the Massachusetts...

16 March, 2015

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Aggressive swine flu virus hits India

A surge in swine flu infections has killed more than 800 people in India and is challenging health workers, who say the virus is harder to treat than the version that caused a global pandemic in 2009. High-risk patients...

3 March, 2015

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A virus conquered

This past week, India marked three years since its last reported polio case. As the country gets ready to be declared ‘polio-free’, the author looks back at a well-deserved victory January 13, was a...

20 January, 2014

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