About the New Vaccine for Dengue

This is the continuation on the report I posted last Sunday about the new found vaccine for dengue, The new vaccine was tested in 4,000 school children in Thailand. Each children got three doses of vaccine shots spread in 6 mos.

After 2 years from testing, the experts found out that the vaccine offered 60% to 90% protection against the three of the four dengue strains. It didn't seem to work against the virus responsible for the most of the cases in the outbreak: The DENV2 virus. Derek Wallace MD says, his team is still trying to figure out why the vaccine didn't protect against DENV2. A larger trial of vaccine in 31,000 children on 10 countries is ongoing. This trial should help answer why the vaccine wont protect against DENV2.

 So no perfect vaccine yet to protect against all strains of dengue. We just need to be very careful and do extra caution to avoid the mosquito carrying dengue around us. Lets just clean our surroundings and get rid of the stagnant waters around us. Use mosquito repellants inside and outside the house..

That's all for now folks and next blog lets talk about some alternatives on what to do in case we get the virus..

 Thanks for reading...

Best Regards,
 Nene Manatad