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TicVac-U and the Prevention of Tick-borne Diseases in Uganda
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Globally, tick-borne diseases pose a major threat to the livestock industry mainly because of the extensive distribution of ticks and the pathogens they transmit. Uganda suffers an aggregated annual l...
Understanding How TicVac-U Anti-Tick Vaccine Works
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Anti-tick vaccines have been used in other countries for effective tick control for some time. From Latin American countries such as Cuba, Brazil, Argentina, and Colombia, all the way to Australia, ti...
Ugandan scientist leads research to produce an anti-tick vaccine to combat the epidemic of ticks and tick-borne diseases in Africa
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In this report, we profile the work of renown Makerere University scientist, Dr. Margaret Saimo-Kahwa and her efforts to produce an anti-tick vaccine to combat the rising epidermic of a new tide of ac...
Everything you need to know about TicVac-U
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In the following article, we give an overview of what the new anti-tick vaccine known as TicVac-U is, how it works against tickborne diseases like EastCoastFever (ECF) and Babesiosis, its efficacy aga...
10 Scientists Who made the Tick Vaccines
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Dr Margaret Saimo-Kahwa, the lead developer of the vaccine, on Tuesday said the development started in 2005 with a seed grant from the Dutch Research Council, but the government of Uganda through ...