{"id":19428,"date":"2014-07-17T23:52:42","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T15:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=19428"},"modified":"2014-07-17T23:52:42","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T15:52:42","slug":"worlds-first-anti-dengue-vaccine-to-be-released-next-year-doh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/07\/17\/worlds-first-anti-dengue-vaccine-to-be-released-next-year-doh\/","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s first anti-dengue vaccine to be released next year &#8211; DOH"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_13109\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13109\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/vaccine.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13109\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/vaccine-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"ShutterStock image\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/vaccine-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/vaccine.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13109\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ShutterStock image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 The world\u2019s first anti-dengue vaccine will be released July next year, Health Secretary Enrique Ona told reporters yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>The secretary also added that though the coverage will initially be limited in terms of the number of persons who can avail \u00a0once the vaccine is out, they will still be including it in the Department of Health (DOH)\u2019s Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will be targeting particular areas and age groups \u2013 the most affected ones \u2013 to be covered by this initially,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Ona also said that Sanofi Pasteur, a France-based pharmaceutical company which will be releasing the vaccine, has not yet mentioned the vaccine\u2019s cost.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe company had already made an announcement that the vaccine will be available but it did not give any estimate about the costing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Several clinical trials to test the vaccine was earlier conducted by the said the company on some countries including the Philippines, and Latin America.<\/p>\n<p>The trials showed a \u201cpromising overall efficacy of 56.6 percent,\u201d indicating that \u201cmore than half of the subjects did not get dengue compared to the group that did not receive the vaccine in a study.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the Philippines alone, the study done by the DOH-run Research Institute for Tropical Medicine led by principal investigator Rosario Capeding, head of RITM\u2019s Department of Microbiology, included 3,500 children in Cebu and San Pablo, Laguna.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 The world\u2019s first anti-dengue vaccine will be released July next year, Health Secretary Enrique Ona told reporters yesterday. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":13109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,95],"tags":[6764,2401],"class_list":["post-19428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news-ph","tag-dengue-vaccine","tag-doh","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}