INQUIRER.net: Brazil to test new vaccine against dengue fever

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Brazil to test new vaccine against dengue fever Sep 26th 2013, 22:57 SAO PAULO – Brazilian scientists will next month begin clinical tests on humans of a new vaccine against dengue fever, a leading Sao Paulo-based biomedical research institute said Thursday.   The vaccine is being developed to combat the four closely related strains of dengue viruses that have been identified around the world, the Butantan institute said in a statement.   Brazil is frequently afflicted with the disease, which is spread by the mosquito Aedes aegypti. Work on the vaccine began in 2005 in partnership with the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), Butantan said.   In a first phase, the vaccine was tested on animals and humans in the Uni... Keep on reading: Brazil to test new vaccine against dengue fever Media files: Dengue_Inq-photo.jpg (image/jpeg)

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