Illustration photo. (Source: baodautu.vn) Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam is one of the countries that will participate in the tests of the Japanese vaccine against dengue, revealed Nguyen Van Kinh, vice president of the Vietnam Medical Association.
According to the official, to have a thorough evaluation of the impact of the vaccine, it is necessary to carry out tests before applying it widely in the community.
According to the Ministry of Health, from the beginning of the year until now, the country has registered more than 90 thousand cases of dengue, of which 26 are fatal.
Hanoi is one of the “hot” points in the country as the number of dengue cases continues to increase. In the first week of October, the Vietnamese capital reported almost 2,600 victims of the febrile illness, bringing the number of patients in this regard so far this year to almost 18,000.
Previously, some countries tested and licensed a vaccine to prevent dengue, but the effectiveness was not as expected, especially with dengue type 2 virus, which is the most popular today.
Recently, Japan produced an antiviral substance intended for both adults and children to prevent the disease, and the initial test showed its effectiveness in preventing the 4 types of dengue viruses.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), febrile illness is classified as one of the 10 global health challenges, and up to 40% of the world’s population lives in areas at risk of dengue hemorrhagic fever infection.
It is estimated that dengue causes around 20 thousand deaths worldwide each year.
Treatment of dengue patients at Bach Mai Hospital, Hanoi. (Source: hanoimoi.com.vn)
The disease is caused by four serotypes of the dengue virus (DEN-1, DEN-2, DEN-3, DEN-4), of which DEN-1 and DEN-2 account for 90% of cases.
In particular, a second dengue infection is very dangerous because the condition is usually more serious than the first./.
2023-10-13 03:22:00
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