despite early ‘elimination’ declaration by WHO defined as ‘the reduction of prevalence to a level below one case per 10,000 population’ [168]. This has drawn major criticism, because it changed public perception and shifted away the resources and financial support needed to carry out ...
Moreover, Zeng said that the leaders of more than 30 countries, including Turkey, Serbia, Cambodia and Chile, have been vaccinated with Chinese vaccines. All of these facts demonstrate that vaccinations made in China are widely approved by the global community, he emphasized. Data collected during...
Massive surges in cases and hospitalization, fueled by both the Omicron and Delta variants, are putting a heavy burden on healthcare systems in the Asia-Pacific region, after many healthcare workers and laboratory technicians contracted the virus and needed to isolate. "Every third doctor is eithe...
Sokhonn, who is also a deputy prime minister of Cambodia, was on his working visit to Myanmar. The donation fully reflected China's high regard for the centrality and the role of ASEAN, as well as China's firm position to support ASEAN's humanitarian assistance to Myanmar, the Chinese amb...
Optimized vaccination strategy and new vaccines with improved immunogenicity were needed to reduce influenza-related morbidity and mortality. Intriguingly, there seemed to be a trend for A/H3N2 that the higher the frequency of common colds, the bet- ter the responsiveness. This was observed in both...
This may explain, in part, why higher titers of ZIKV neutralizing antibodies are needed for protection in the mouse model (around 100) as compared to the low titers (about 10) needed for the three licensed flavivirus vaccines; care is needed in interpretation of these data as there is no ...
Wang Wenbin, spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, said that China has been acting on its commitment of making China-developed COVID-19 vaccines a global public good. China last week listed Cambodia among the developing countries that will get free doses of the Chinese vaccine. ...
The results from the HSV-2 experiments demonstrated that PT films are highly capable of thermally stabilizing vaccines for DNA viruses. However, further investigation was needed to determine how suitable PT films are for stabilizing vaccines for RNA viruses. Therefore, we dried an IAV (A/Puerto Ri...
An effective vaccine is still needed, should the disease reemerge. However, several factors, including the lack of a clear market, have slowed research, but work is ongoing. "In the early days of the SARS outbreak everyone felt there was going to be...
levels of neutralizing antibodies (>60) are required to protect against ZIKV infection with all three vaccine candidates in animal models. The increased level of neutralizing antibodies needed for protection in animals may be in part due to the complex pathogenesis of ZIKV, including congenital ...