CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -The world’s first vaccine for honeybees has been granted a conditional license in the US, a massive breakthrough in the protection of these insects critical for food production. The vaccine, developed by a US biotech company Dalan Animal Health, will protect honeybees against American Foulbrood disease.

Detailed explanation-2: -We begin our history of vaccines and immunization with the story of Edward Jenner, a country doctor living in Berkeley (Gloucestershire), England, who in 1796 performed the world’s first vaccination. Taking pus from a cowpox lesion on a milkmaid’s hand, Jenner inoculated an eight-year-old boy, James Phipps.

Detailed explanation-3: -The US has approved use of the world’s first vaccine for honey bees. It was engineered to prevent fatalities from American foulbrood disease, a bacterial condition known to weaken colonies by attacking bee larvae.