Historic dengue vaccine programme, PI

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Historic dengue vaccine programme, PI

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At last some good news for a change. I've put this here because a vaccine against dengue will be good news for Cambodia eventually.
I don't know much about this, so I have a question - will a vaccine work on people who already have had dengue ? So many kids get it when they are really young,but here they are vaccinating 9yo and up...
Manila - The world's first public dengue vaccination programme was launched in the Philippines on Monday as nurses began injecting the first batch of a million children with a French drug to combat the sometimes deadly disease.

Several hundred children aged 9-10 queued in front of government health workers at a public school in eastern Manila for the injections, capping a 20-year, 1.5-billion-euro (S$2.4 bn) effort by French drug manufacturer Sanofi to develop the vaccine.

"We are the first country to introduce, adopt and implement the first-ever dengue vaccine through the public health system and under public school settings," said Philippine Health Secretary Janette Garin.

The Philippines had in December approved the vaccine, the first to be licensed globally to combat the mosquito-borne disease for people aged between nine and 45...
http://news.asiaone.com/news/yourhealth ... hilippines
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Just waiting for the anti-vaccine crowd to turn up with their i-can-use-google-degrees.
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Great news, hopefully this vaccine will prove successful.
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