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The epidemic in Southeast Asia has intensified, and a large number of Japanese companies have shut down
With the intensification of the new crown pneumonia epidemic in many Southeast Asian countries, many companies that have opened factories there have been greatly affected. Among them, Japanese companies such as Toyota and Honda have been forced to suspend production, and this suspension has had a...Read more -
Immunoassay heterogeneity and implications for SARS-CoV-2 serosurveillance
Serosurveillance deals with estimating the prevalence of antibodies in a population against a particular pathogen. It helps measure the immunity of a population post-infection or vaccination and has epidemiological utility in measuring transmission risks and population immunity levels. In the cur...Read more -
COVID-19: How do viral vector vaccines work?
Unlike many other vaccines that contain an infectious pathogen or a part of it, viral vector vaccines use a harmless virus to deliver a piece of genetic code to our cells, allowing them to make a pathogen’s protein. This trains our immune system to react to future infections. When we have a bac...Read more -
COVID-19 highlights urgent need to reboot global effort to end tuberculosis
An estimated 1.4 million fewer people received care for tuberculosis (TB) in 2020 than in 2019, according to preliminary data compiled by the World Health Organization (WHO) from over 80 countries- a reduction of 21% from 2019. The countries with the biggest relative gaps were Indonesia (42%), So...Read more
