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Cuba To Test Dengue Fever Vaccine On Humans
Published March 08, 2012
EFE
On Wednesday at the International Biotechnology Congress in Havana,Cuba, leaders of a clinical trial announced their project for a vaccine against dengue fever.
The research director at the Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Center, or Cigb, Gerardo Guill?n, said research in monkeys proved the vaccine's effectiveness in controlling the multiplication of the virus.
The vaccine is designed to act on all four known variants of the dengue virus, Guill?n said.
Guill?n said that so far there are no products in existence anywhere that prevent dengue fever, although several international pharmaceutical firms are developing weaker vaccines that use the virus itself to treat the illness.
Cigb worked with France's Pasteur Institute to develop the vaccine...
Cuba To Test Dengue Fever Vaccine On Humans
Published March 08, 2012
EFE
On Wednesday at the International Biotechnology Congress in Havana,Cuba, leaders of a clinical trial announced their project for a vaccine against dengue fever.
The research director at the Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Center, or Cigb, Gerardo Guill?n, said research in monkeys proved the vaccine's effectiveness in controlling the multiplication of the virus.
The vaccine is designed to act on all four known variants of the dengue virus, Guill?n said.
Guill?n said that so far there are no products in existence anywhere that prevent dengue fever, although several international pharmaceutical firms are developing weaker vaccines that use the virus itself to treat the illness.
Cigb worked with France's Pasteur Institute to develop the vaccine...