US Reportedly Experimenting on Nepali Soldiers
The US Government is reportedly using Nepali soldiers for experiments for finding a vaccine for Hepatitis. The vaccine is expected to protect the US soldiers while serving abroad. Hepatitis E is reported to account for half the hepatitis cases in lesser developed nations. //In 1995, the US Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences (AFRIMS), the Thai-based branch of Walter Reed Army Inst...Nepali Rhesus May be Used as an Alternate for HIV/AIDS Research
Scientists have found that Nepali rhesus is by all means a suitable alternate for the Indian-origin macaques, which is currently been used in biomedical research. // The Nepali species can be used in order to assuage the prevailing shortage of laboratory animals used for developing of vaccines for HIV/AIDS. ....Writing in the cover story of the current issue of the American Journal of Primatology...New Delhi: Sanduk Ruit, a Nepalese eye surgeon educated in India, was Monday conferred with the first Reader's Digest Asian// of the Year award. ....Ruit has conducted over 70,000 surgeries for cataract, considered to be the main reason of blindness in the subcontinent. ...."It is an apt award for a man of his stature. India and the Indian subcontinent need his service," Indian Health Minister...