Kenya was hit by a third COVID-19 wave in March and April 2021, with renewed containment measures eased May as the case count moderated. In mid-May, Kenya’s vaccination program faced serious challenges on delays international vaccine shipments. The authorities are redoubling their efforts to mobilize support now aim inoculate 60 percent of population mid-2023. General elections planned for Augu...

Teflon spaghetti tubing was placed over the metal needles of the dispensing head of the Accu-Drop multidropper, thus preventing the delivery of multiple drops. A metal plate was drilled so that 25 cartridges could be positioned to inoculate simultaneously 25 compartments in a divided petri dish.

ALAN D. DESANTIS is an associate professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Kentucky. He is presently researching the ways fraternities and sororities both reinforce and challenge traditional conceptions of masculinity and femininity on college campuses. " The primary function of these arguments was to inoculate regulars from the potential disonance-causing and anxiety-cr...

It was recently reported that when mosquitoes infected with P. berghei sporozoites feed on mice, they deposit approximately 100-300 sporozoites in the dermis. When we inoculate P. yoelii (Py) sporozoites intravenously (IV) into BALB/c mice, the 50% infectious dose (ID(50)) is often less than 3 sporozoites, indicating that essentially all Py sporozoites in salivary glands are infectious. Thus, i...

Background Vaccination coverage needs to reach more than 80% resolve the COVID-19 pandemic, but vaccine hesitancy, fuelled by misinformation, may jeopardize this goal. Unvaccinated older adults are not only at risk of complications also be misled false information. Prebunking, based on inoculation theory, involves ‘forewarning people [of] and refuting information that challenges their existing ...