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Monkeypox Red-Alert: UK-based Science Expert Uguru, Author Awute Disagree On Key Issues

Less than one hour after Prime Business Africa published an opinion article, ‘Monkeypox: Another Red-Alert For Nigerians,” written by retired Permanent Secretary Linus Awute, United Kingdom-based health expert and Analyst at Prime Business Africa, Dr Gabriel Uguru reacted to the matter, saying

May 25, 2022

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COVID-19 and Brain Damage: Real or Myth?

In 2020 when COVID-19 graced us with its unwanted presence, it soon became apparent that the disease has some unwonted devastating side effects. Studies have shown that COVID-19 damages the brain in several ways: it could limit the flow of blood to

November 28, 2021

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Previous Exposure To Malaria Protects Against Severity Of COVID-19 Infection

When the Coronavirus pandemic hit the world in early 2020, it crippled the healthcare systems of most wealthy nations, including the US and UK. The projection was that it would devastate Africa given her poor and in most cases non-existent healthcare systems

November 26, 2021

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Wanted, People With Immunity To COVID-19

Are you genetically immune to infection with COVID-19? If so, the world needs you! The devastating impact of the Coronavirus pandemic has been quite astonishing both in human lives lost and the damaging knock-on effect on the world economy. The US, India,

November 24, 2021

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SOTROVIMAB: A New Super Therapeutic Agent Against All COVID-19 Variants

In an increasingly recurrent battle with coronavirus, effective treatments are urgently needed to reduce the risk of hospitalisation or death. Many vaccines, including monoclonal antibodies and pills, against the COVID-19 condition, have been produced. But despite all these arrays of weapons deployed

November 18, 2021

Technology

Spinal Cord Repair Therapy: Paralysed Mice Walk Again

THE Biblical Jesus, said to a lame man, “Rise, take up thy bed, and walk.” And immediately, according to the Bible, the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked. Ever since that time, man has been trying to

November 14, 2021

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The New Pfizer Antiviral Pill: Should We Pop The Champagne?

LAST Friday 5 November 2021, the drug giant, Pfizer, announced that it had developed an antiviral pill, which had undergone critical clinical trial and was found to reduce the risk of hospitalisation or death from COVID-19 by 89%! The drug if approved

November 11, 2021

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Fungus-induced Necrophilia In Flies

Necrophilia is the practice of engaging in s3xual intercourse with and/ or having an unhealthy attraction to a corpse. The practice is widespread in nature and has been reported not only in mammals but in birds and amphibians. Species survival and dissemination

November 8, 2021

Technology

Virgin Births: More Common in Nature Than You Think

Parthenogenesis or “virgin birth” occurs in the absence of sperm fertilisation when an egg develops into an embryo during reproduction. This type of asexual reproductive process is common amongst some invertebrates (insects) and lower plants, and even in some vertebrates like fishes,

November 5, 2021

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Monkeypox Red-Alert: UK-based Science Expert Uguru, Author Awute Disagree On Key Issues

COVID-19 and Brain Damage: Real or Myth?

Previous Exposure To Malaria Protects Against Severity Of COVID-19 Infection

Wanted, People With Immunity To COVID-19

SOTROVIMAB: A New Super Therapeutic Agent Against All COVID-19 Variants

Spinal Cord Repair Therapy: Paralysed Mice Walk Again

The New Pfizer Antiviral Pill: Should We Pop The Champagne?

Fungus-induced Necrophilia In Flies

Virgin Births: More Common in Nature Than You Think

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