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London: British scientists say they will launch the world''s first human challenge trials for COVID-19, in which healthy volunteers will be deliberately infected with the coronavirus, in the hope of f...
10.20.2020 smh.com.au , stuff.co.nz , vancouversun.com and 20 sites
A London-based company has secured a UK government contract worth up to £10m to intentionally infect healthy young volunteers with Covid-19 to hasten the development of a vaccine. So-called "challenge...
10.20.2020 msn.com , yahoo.com , thedailybeast.com and 6 sites
On 7 September 1854, in the middle of a raging cholera epidemic, the physician John Snow approached the board of guardians of St James''s parish for permission to remove the handle from a public water...
10.18.2020 theguardian.com , msn.com , yahoo.com and 3 sites
The UK is set to become the first country in the world to deliberately infect healthy volunteers with the coronavirus, the Government confirmed today. Up to 90 volunteers under the age of 30 will rece...
10.20.2020 msn.com , dailymail.co.uk , albawaba.com and 3 sites
On Oct. 20, researchers at the Imperial College of London announced plans for the first human challenge study of COVID-19, which involves deliberately infecting volunteers with the virus that causes the disease, in order to test the effectiveness of vaccines. The strategy is controversial, as researchers have to weigh the risks of infection against the benefits of learning how well the various vaccine candidates can fight that infection. The strongest argument in favor of the studies has to do w...
10.21.2020 msn.com , yahoo.com , time.com and 2 sites
Young healthy volunteers in the UK are to be infected with coronavirus as part of new cross-sector research which aims to accelerate the development of an effective vaccine, the government has announc...
10.20.2020 msn.com , independent.co.uk
Edward Jenner was an 18th century English physician and scientist who was instrumental in the development of the world''s first vaccine, which was for smallpox. There is a long and involved story invo...
10.16.2020 Msn.com and 1 sites
''Stick your vaccine up your arse'' - the Covid-19 vaccine, the science and the scepticsLast Wednesday evening, shortly after announcing yet another round of restrictions, effectively cancelling Hallo...
10.17.2020 Irishtimes.com and 2 sites
But the study of 2, 000 adults found that despite considering these to be among the greatest creations on earth, one in five didn''t realise Thomas Edison invented the lightbulb. And more than half (5...
10.20.2020 mirror.co.uk , express.co.uk , dailystar.co.uk and 5 sites
Causality - that that may have led to this - has never been a strong point with the people of Bengal. Or it may quite well be that fatalism - that this was simply meant to be - has always been a strategy to make some hay even while the sun doesn''t s...
10.19.2020 Indiatimes.com
