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Dengue vaccine is a vaccine used to prevent dengue fever in humans. [9] Development of dengue vaccines began in the 1920s, but was hindered by the need to create immunity against all four dengue serotypes. [10] As of 2023, there are two commercially available vaccines, sold under the brand names Dengvaxia and Qdenga. [11] [12]
The most effective malaria vaccine is the R21/Matrix-M, with a 77% efficacy rate shown in initial trials and significantly higher antibody levels than with the RTS,S vaccine. It is the first vaccine that meets the World Health Organization's (WHO) goal of a malaria vaccine with at least 75% efficacy, [6] [7] and only the second malaria vaccine ...
It is indicated for the prevention of dengue disease in individuals four years of age and older, and can be administered to people who have not been previously infected with dengue. It is a live attenuated vaccine containing the four serotypes of dengue virus, administered subcutaneously as two doses three months apart.
Meanwhile, headlines proclaiming that malaria could be eradicated within a decade are generating excitement after the development of an affordable vaccine against the devastating disease that ...
GENEVA (Reuters) -The World Health Organization (WHO) recommended on Monday the use of a second malaria vaccine to curb the life-threatening disease spread to humans by some mosquitoes.
In May 2024, TAK-003 became the second dengue vaccine to be prequalified by the World Health Organization (WHO). [47] This live-attenuated vaccine, developed by Takeda is similar to the Dengvaxia vaccine in the fact that it contains a weakened version of the four variants of dengue virus. The difference between the two vaccines is the TAK-003 ...
Nigeria, which has more malaria deaths than any other country in the world, has begun rolling out a vaccine against the disease for the first time. The West African nation accounts for almost a ...
Vaccine Detail Image DTaP and DTaP combination containing inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) or hepatitis B: Dengue vaccine: HPV vaccine: Malaria vaccine: MMR vaccine: Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine: polio (inactivated) (IPV) Polio vaccine: Rabies vaccine: Rotavirus vaccine: Typhoid vaccine: Yellow fever vaccine