Archive for September 2024

  The peak of the Covid-19 pandemic may have passed, but its lingering effects continue to shape global health strategies.   During the pandemic, both developed and developing countries faced significant challenges in securing essential health products, underscoring the need for self-sufficient health sectors. This crisis revealed the importance of nearshoring or localising supply chains,…

A fever, sore throat, muscle aches, and rashes or mucosal lesions on the skin. Recovery is usually spontaneous, unless an infected person has a weakened immune system, say, from untreated HIV. In severe cases, the disease can be fatal.   These symptoms and prognoses are characteristic of mpox, an outbreak of which is ravaging the…

In August 2024, of 5 reported cases of an infection in the South Indian state of Kerala, 3 resulted in fatalities. This infection, identified as amoebic meningoencephalitis or brain-eating amoeba infection, was linked to a pond filled with mossy green stagnant water,   The progression of amoebic meningoencephalitis is so swift that clinicians rarely ever…

“During Covid, we needed to manufacture new vaccines, based on a new immunisation approach, at very large scales and an unprecedented rate. Modular systems were a lifesaver. Pfizer installed some 13,000 square feet of modular rooms to rapidly scale up their capacity. With this upgrade, the Pfizer-BioNTech partnership went from producing 3-4 million vaccine doses…