August 10, 2021
What are the risks of a Zika virus vaccine?
The world’s biggest pharmaceutical company, AstraZeneca, has been pushing for a vaccine that could protect people against Zika in Brazil.A trial is being carried out in Brazil, and the trial is set to start on Monday.The trial, called a phase 2 trial, aims to test the effectiveness of the vaccine in a large group of […]
August 4, 2021
Sickness symptoms: Widespread infection in south-east Queensland
News24.com.au has spoken to health workers about the number of illnesses and injuries they are seeing on the south-eastern Queensland bush this year.Many of the cases they have seen are of shingling, a condition where people are susceptible to an infection when their immune system is overworked.It can occur in people who are ill with […]