People discuss suspicions, superstitions concerning vaccine
The Science Café meeting was held in the form of a friendly scientific gathering dealing with queries from the audience regarding inoculation.
MSTF Media reports:
The Mustafa
Science and Technology Foundation (MSTF) held the first Mustafa
Prize Science Café on June 10, 2021. This meeting was held with the presence of people who later joined the discussion.
Ameneh Elikaei, a microbiologist with an expertise in Virology, began the discussion with giving a chronological history of efforts in vaccine development since the ancient times up to the present day.
She then talked about different deadly viruses throughout the history which have propelled scientists to develop vaccines, the first vaccines, and the vaccines in the future, using a plain and clear language.
Answering to a number of misgivings and superstitions about inoculation in general, her speech was followed by a question-answer session with the audience on receiving COVID-19 vaccine.
Science Café meetings aim to analyze and discuss the top trending scientific topics. Believing that exchanging views on the present-day scientific issues is of high importance, the organizers of these meetings follow the objective of enhancing the skill and culture of scientific discussion which leads to constructive interactions in society.
