South African swimming hunk and Olympic gold medallist Chad le Clos made a girl’s day by agreeing to go to her school dance when she wooed him with a poster at a Johannesburg airport. “I just started to cry. I was shaking and I was so nervous,” said Melanie Olhaus, 17, after Le Clos agreed to be her date.
The final year pupil at Glenvista High School in Johannesburg skipped class on Tuesday to try her luck when Le Clos was at the OR Tambo Interna-tional Airport to welcome back the rest of the country’s Olympic team returning from the London Games. The pretty blonde held up a baby blue poster with the words “Chad, will you be my matric dance date???” together with pictures of her and him holding his gold medal. The matric dance is farewell ball for final year school students.
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Vaccine for hepatitis C developed?
Melbourne: Scientists claim to have developed the first ever preventative vaccine for deadly Hepatitis C, a liver illness affecting about 200 million people worldwide.
Hepatitis C is an infectious disease primarily of the liver, caused by the hepatitis C virus (HCV) and a preventative vaccine has the potential to have a significant global health impact, researchers at the Burnet Institute, Melbourne said in a statement.
With this finding, scientists said they have solved a hepatitis C vaccine mystery which once developed could be the first ever preventative vaccine for the virus. As the virus has a greater ability to change its structure and evade the immune response, they said it is difficult to vaccinate against. The infection is often asymptomatic, but can lead to scarring of the liver. — PTI