Source: The Hindu In 1977, a 23-year-old cook at a hospital in Somalia who caught smallpox and survived became the last naturally occurring case of the disease. Three years later, in May 1980, the World Health Assembly, the supreme decision-making body of the World Health Organisation, declared that “the world and all its people have […]
GSK, Binnopharm aim for Russia’s vaccine market
By: Tracy Staton 29 November 2010 GlaxoSmithKline has teamed up with another emerging markets partner. The drugmaker inked a deal with Russian vaccine firm JSC Binnopharm to make and sell several of its big vaccines in that country. It’s just the latest in a series of tie-ups in developing countries for GSK, which is pinning […]