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As chair of the Africa Centre for Communicable and Preventable Diseases (Africa CDC) working groups on Vaccine Preventable Diseases (VPD), Prof Martin Nyaga, an Associate Professor and Head of the Next Generation Sequencing (UFS-NGS) Unit at the University of the Free State (UFS), is taking a leading role in the…

Africa CDC’s New Public Health Order champions initiatives and investments across critical areas of health policy and practice on the African continent.

Africa CDC – Pathogen Genomics and Bioinformatics Fellowship Program 2023 for public health professionals. Application Deadline:  April 28, 2023, 5:00 PM (EAT)

African genomes carry more variations than European genomes because they have a longer evolutionary history, and thus they offer more insights into potential new therapeutic targets for detecting and treating rare diseases.

As part of their COVID-19 global-surveillance efforts, scientists at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine have been traveling internationally to meet with local clinicians and scientists, including those who provide care to remote communities along the Amazon River.

Could the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine reawaken previous antibody responses and point the way to a universal coronavirus vaccine? A new analysis of the antibody response to a COVID-19 vaccine suggests the immune system's history with other coronaviruses, including those behind the common cold, shapes the patient's response, according to a study published today in Cell Reports.

The first omicron BA.2 subvariant case has been detected in Illinois by Northwestern Medicine’s Center for Pathogen Genomics and Microbial Evolution.The arrival of BA.2 is no surprise.

Considering the speculation about whether the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine can reawaken previous antibody responses and pave the way to a universal coronavirus vaccine, new research on a COVID-19 vaccines antibody response suggests that the immune systems history with other coronaviruses, along with those behind the common cold, influences a patients response, as per the study published in Cell Reports.

Twelve African countries report 1,782 cases of monkeypox: Africa CDC-

Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) on Friday disclosed that 12 African countries have so far reported 1,782 cases of monkeypox. | Pulse Nigeria