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How Vaccine Protects Sonar Bangla:
TVVenkateswaran:We are living in genome of a benign pathogen. The The Health Journal Of The Past
anunprecedentedtime.ThenovelCo- subset of viral genomic material pro- Krishanu Bhattacharyya: Com- garding sanitary conscience to get rid
rona virus pandemic has engulfed the duces alien viral proteins to which the municating with the masses in their ofmosquitobornediseseslikeMalaria,
wholeplanet.Normalactivitiesarehin- immune system reacts by developing language is the need of any social Kalazarandothers.Inthefirstissuethe
dered, and death and destruction is all antibodies.CovishieldandSputnikare movement. It becomes necessary in editorial policy of the journal was de-
around. As a proverbial silver lining, of thesekinds. case of any awareness drive. To meet clared. There it was declared that the
vaccines appear among the dark Another way is to manufacture the thatdemandundertheleadershipofDr main motto of the journal is to bring
clouds. Yet, instead of embracing the viralproteinsandadministerthem.En- Gopal Chandra Chatterjee, the noted backprosperityamongthepeoplewho
protection,somearespreadingrumours countering the viral proteins the im- virologist of his time, the CentralAnti werecontinuouslysufferingfromfever
andpromotingvaccinehesitancy.This mune system is kicked into develop Malaria Co-operative Society started and poverty. So this magazine they
shortessayprovidesasimpleexplana- neutralising antibodies.Covovax,re- its own bi-lingual monthly named guided the masses to take the path of
tion of what happens when we are in- SonarBanglainNovember,1925.The preventingthediseasesbycooperation.
fected, and how the vaccines help us journalwaspublishedcontinuouslytill Thenotedcontributorsofthemagazine
brace theviralattack. 1937 as per the records. It was pub- included Dr P C Roy, Gurusaday
Vaccineshelptheimmunesystemby lishedfrom PremchandBoralSt,Cal- Dutta, Dr Rabindranath Chowdhury,
training it to recognise the pathogen it cutta which was the office of the MirMosharafHossainandothers.The
had not encountered earlier.The com- CentralAnti Malaria Cooperative So- activities of the different village soci-
ponentofthevirusactslikeadecoyand ciety. The registration number was etiesandthereportingontheactivities
instigatethedevelopment of neutralis- C1381. ofthesocietiesworkinginaround3500
ing antibodies that can bind to specific Editors of the journal were noted villages were published in the maga-
regionsofthegerm.Oncetherealvirus freedom fighter and journalist Bipin zine on regular basis. Dr Gopal Chat-
is in sight the immune system can fire Chandra Pal and Dr Gopal Chandra terjee contributed various scientific
arrows of antibodies and not let the centlyapprovedinIndiaisonesuch Chatterjee.AbanindranathThakur de- papers in English in Sonar Bangla.
virus takeafoothold. vaccineagainstCovid19. signedthecoverofthefirstissue.After Surely this journal is the part of our
Essentially, there are three types of Whatever be the method of training 1930, Chittasukh Sanyal, father of glorious heritage of science
vaccines;onecontainsthewholevirus, the immune system, the ultimate aim noted writer Narayan Sanyal replaced communication.
the second includes the pathogen's ge- of the vaccine is to trick our body into BipinChandra.Itwaspublishedtocre- *Science
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Covid 19 Pandemic:
Featureson GriefCounselling
Tinny Dutta: The second wave cause the person has been unfairly Editor: Prasanta K. Bose
of the pandemic has been wreaking taken away. The third stage is power- Joint Editor : Arnab Kumar Banerjee
havoc in the world. No doubt in India lessness. But we realize from the core
too. We have lost near and dear ones. oftheheartthatwearepowerlesstothe Members: Dr K Muraleedharan, Sri Pathik Guha, Dr T V Venkateswaran,
Our sorrows are irreplaceable and un- divinepower or nature. Prof Sudhendu Mandal, Prof Manas Chakrabarty, Dr Barun Chatterjee,
believable.Wearehelplessandtakere- The fourth stage is deep depres- Prof Syamal Chakrabarti, Dr Amit krishna De, Dr Manas Pratim Das,
course to Tagore’s songs to console sion. It is the longest stage. Previ- Dr Sima Mukhopadhyay, Prof Devaprasanna Sinha,
ourselves.Scientificallywehavetode- ously we had our entire focus and Dr Minakshi De, Dr Buroshiva Dasgupta, Dr Shankarashis Mukherjee,
veloppsycho-spiritualprocessestodeal energy to our objects of love but Dr Sabyasachi Chatterjee, Dr Sumitra Chaudhuri,Dr Kali Prasanna Dhara,
with such a devastating situation. The as someone dies, we become Dr Asis Das,Mrs Arpita Chakraborty & Sri Ratul Datta
grieving processes is complicated and highly depressed. Under such cir- Technical Advisor : Sri Shib Sankar Datta
unique to each and every one. But for cumstances providing support and
extendingourhelpscientificallywedi- administering Cognitive Behavior Editorial Assistants: Barnini Bhattacharya, Sukalyan Gain
vide them into different stages. Therapy will be highly Sandipan Chatterjee, Krishnendu Rath, Rezwana Parvin,
The first stage is blocking and beneficial. Tuhin Sajjad SK, Debosree Ghosh, Neepa Banerjee,
denial. We experience numbness The final stage is restoring Surjani Chatterjee, Mizanur Rahaman SK, Sudipta Chakraborty,
and great pain. Denial uncon- the balance. The life begins to re- Juneid Javed, Bibhas Adak, Jinnat Ali SK & Tanusree Dey
sciously protects us to confront turn to the New Normal. The
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