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Gatonye Gathura | January 25th 2021 at 11:00:00 GMT +0300
A male patient receiving an injection from a doctor. [Standard]
The first study in Kenya to pay healthy volunteers to be infected with a disease-causing parasite, researchers say, was an eye-opener.
The project acquired invaluable scientific knowledge, put money in volunteers’ pockets but also reports some serious setbacks.
For almost a decade, the Kenya Medical Research Institute (Kemri) has infected volunteers with malaria in search of new knowledge, drugs and vaccines.
The first experiment was carried out among university students in Nairobi in 2012, mainly to understand malaria in Central Kenya.
Kenyan Scientists Raise Alarm Over New Coronavirus Mutation
Charles Agoti, a principal investigator and researcher.
Kenyan scientists have discovered a coronavirus variant they say differs from the one spreading in South Africa and Britain.
About 10 investigators from the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) discovered the coronavirus mutation.
Charles Agoti, a principal investigator and researcher, says that the variant unique to Kenya was detected in a batch of samples taken from Taita Taveta county, located in the southeastern part of the country.
“Our interpretation is that because in this one place in Kenya we were seeing, it represents the majority of the sequenced samples; it does imply that actually, it could if it has intrinsic properties, be more transmissible,” Agoti said.
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- The new variant that causes the COVID-19 disease was discovered by a team of 10 researchers from the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI)
- Charles Agoti, a principal investigator, revealed the variant unique to Kenya was detected in some samples collected by his team from Taita Taveta county in the Coastal region
- The latest development came even after Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe hinted that vaccines were set to arrive in the country in February or even earlier
Kenyan scientists have raised an alarm over a new coronavirus strain in the country different from the one that has mutated in Nigeria and Britain.
“Our interpretation is that because in this one place in Kenya we were seeing, it represents the majority of the sequenced samples; it does imply that actually, it could if it has intrinsic properties, be more transmissible."