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: Cancer patient Stew Scannell receives an intravenous dose of Lambrolizumab during a promising cancer treatment clinical trial at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, California August 19, 2013. Reuters

Scientific Discovery Heads a Potential Cancer Fighting Vaccine

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jun 3, 2016 | Health

London- In a ground-breaking discovery, German scientists arrived at a positive finding expected to later help in the realization of cancer fighting vaccines, reported the scientific journal “Nature”. Mining a series of genetic encoding specialized to take down...

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WHO for Asharq Al-Awsat: No Vaccine for Zika Yet!

WHO for Asharq Al-Awsat: No Vaccine for Zika Yet!

by Raneem Hanoush and Nayef al-Rasheed | Feb 3, 2016 | World

WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl told Asharq Al-Awsat that the surge in the number of microcephaly cases and the Zika virus may just be coincidental in terms of time and place. He cautioned, however, that experts are not ruling anything out. “One of the curiosities...

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Technicians wearing protection suits begin to cull poultry at Huhuai poultry wholesale market, where the H7N9 bird flu virus was detected in pigeon samples, in Shanghai April 5, 2013. REUTERS/Stringer

China Culls Birds As Bird Flu Deaths Mount

by Alex Edwards | Apr 5, 2013 | World

Shanghai/Hong Kong, Reuters—Chinese authorities slaughtered over 20,000 birds on Friday at a poultry market in the financial hub Shanghai as the death toll from a new strain of bird flu mounted to six, spreading concern overseas and sparking a sell-off on Hong...