ICDDR,B, and the Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont (UVM), jointly conducted trial of dengue vaccine for the first time in Bangladesh.
ICDDR,B, and the Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont (UVM), are the first to study a promising tetravalent dengue vaccine in dengue-endemic Bangladesh, said a press release today.
Their work, evaluating the single-dose tetravalent dengue vaccine candidate TV005, demonstrated safety and immune responsiveness in children and adults, it said adding the accompanying study was recently published in the journal The Lancet Infectious Diseases.
The 77th birthday of Prime Minister and Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina was celebrated across the country today.
Sheikh Hasina, the eldest among the five children of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and Bangamata Sheikh Fazilatun Nesa Mujib, was born at Tungipara in Gopalganj on September 28 in 1947.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is now abroad as she left the country to join the 78th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).
President Mohammed Shahabuddin today wished sound health, long life, peace, progress and continued wellbeing of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on the occasion of her 77th birthday to be celebrated tomorrow.
"I extend my heartiest greetings and warm congratulations to Bangladesh Awami League President and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina," he said in a message on the eve of her birthday.
Sheikh Hasina was born on September 28 in 1947 at Tungipara in Gopalganj in a traditional political family, the President said.
Election Commissioner Md Alamgir today said as per the constitutional obligation, the next general elections must be held within January 29 next.
“A constitutional vacuum will be created if the next general polls are not held within January 29 next,” he told the reporters at Nirbachan Bhaban here.
Reiterating that there has to be an election in any situation otherwise there will be a constitutional vacuum in the country, the election commissioner said, adding that if the vacuum is created, there will be anarchy in the country but the Election Commission (EC) cannot allow to happen that.