Fears over a dengue vaccine in the Philippines have led to a big drop in immunisation rates for preventable diseases, officials have warned. Health Under-Secretary Enrique Domingo said many parents were refusing to get their children vaccinated for polio, chicken pox and tetanus. The fears centre...
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The other piece of the synthetic biology puzzle for Codagenix pertains to manufacturing. “Some flu vaccines are still manufactured in eggs,” Grint says. “Basically, the virus grows in the chicken embryos that are harvested, put in a blender, and then slightly purified—that’s the vacci...
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Vaccination as practiced today came into being when Edward Jenner, English physician and scientist, created the first smallpox vaccine using cowpox (a disease similar to smallpox that infects cows) and vaccinating an eight-year-old boy in 1796. Jenner’s innovation was used for 200 years, ...
The Report has shown that up to 20 countries provide citizens with the possibility of obtaining at least one vaccination in community pharmacies, and, in 13 countries (namely, Argentina, Australia, Canada, Costa Rica, Denmark, Ireland, New Zealand, the Philippines, Portugal, South Africa, the ...
Another licensed chimeric live-attenuated vaccine is Dengvaxia (CYD), although it is limited to only two countries, Brazil and the Philippines, where the vaccine uptake is low [61]. The reasons for this are the increased risk of severe dengue and the high costs. Dengvaxia uses the YFV-17D...