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HPV, or human papillomavirus, is the most common sexually transmitted infection. It is also the leading cause of cervical cancer. Over 1,400 Canadian women are affected yearly, with almost 400 deaths, according to the Canadian Cancer Society. It is completely preventable with the HPV vaccine, and yet, unfortunately, many people are unvaccinated.

Katalin Kariko, who won the Nobel Medicine Prize for work on messenger RNA (mRNA) technology, paving the way for COVID-19 vaccines, told Swedish media on Monday winning felt “unbelievable”.

By LUCY PHIRI

THE Lusaka Magistrate Court has moved the judgement date to October 31, 2023 the case where former Special Assistant to the President for Press and Public Relations Amos Chanda, his wife and his sister-in-law are facing obstructing and using insulting language against Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) officers.

Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis on Monday reported positive interim Phase III results for a new drug being studied to treat a rare kidney disease.

Hungarian-born scientist Katalin Kariko’s obsession with researching a substance called mRNA to fight disease once cost her a faculty position at a prestigious US university, which dismissed the idea as a dead end.

The coronavirus pandemic brought global renown to the mRNA technology that underpins vaccines from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna, and on Monday earned a Nobel Prize for two scientists who have been key to its development.

… Mr. Lungu has been making subtle comments in the media, both mainstream and online, which are political in nature and yet he is supposed to be out of politics

By NATION REPORTERS

THE United Party for National Development (UPND) has called on its Members of Parliament to move a motion to remove the former Head of State Edgar Lungu’s immunity.

Two scientists won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for discoveries that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.

… As ZANASU, we don’t know those two associations and they are not affiliated with our union

By NATION REPORTER

THE Zambia National Students’ Union (ZANASU), the students’ mother body, says it is not aware of any undertakings by any students  union to petition the ConCourt to walk back on its judgement declaring the eligibility of former President Edgar Lungu. 

By NATION REPORTER

ECONOMIST Kelvin Chisanga has attributed the increase of fuel prices to the ban of export of fuel by the Russia which remains one of the largest producers of petroleum products.